I am getting increasingly frustrated by 'scientific reporting'. The study wasn't studying sex, they were studying stress; there were no intelligence assays, just anxiety assays and histological studies of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus. You see this same phenomenon (increased cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus and hippocampus) just by putting the rat into a new cage (environment enrichment) or by a reward protocol (this is the area that goes nuts during addiction), or a neuronal ischemia (stroke). The only time they mention anything regarding intelligence is the last sentence of the discussion "The extent to which fundamentally aversive experiences can be recast as positive through learning, thus minimizing their damaging influence, remains to be determined." They haven't done the studies yet.
Take a look at the article. They are infact *inducing* stress. The authors do not say anything on effects of sexual 'deprevation', effects of sexual activity on intelligence, or stress related to non-mating inhibiting cell growth. These cells already proliferate into adulthood. What they saw was a modest increase due to reward that seems to be related to reduced anxiety. In fact, the unmated controls were left in their cage--no handling, no environmental enrichment; I wonder why they performed poorly in anxiety tests?
Heh. I recommend using those lines anyways. Blunt force trama will get you some excellent swelling and plasticity is hot with the ladies these days. :)
Take a look at the article. They are infact *inducing* stress. The authors do not say anything on effects of sexual 'deprevation', effects of sexual activity on intelligence, or stress related to non-mating inhibiting cell growth. These cells already proliferate into adulthood. What they saw was a modest increase due to reward that seems to be related to reduced anxiety. In fact, the unmated controls were left in their cage--no handling, no environmental enrichment; I wonder why they performed poorly in anxiety tests?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0011597
Besides, we already know that well-sexed early-twenty-something males and females are the biggest idiots of them all.
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... so much for new pick-up lines like "wanna watch my brain grow?" and "how about some dendritic interconnect?"
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