Good ol' UMass and Worcester!
Being raised in Worcester and going to UMass... people wonder why I am the way I am. I'm guessing it's because both were a significant contribution to my edimuhkashin.
Nursing a child can give the brain a bigger buzz than cocaine, says a new study in the Journal of Neuroscience. When researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester compared brain scans of nursing mother rats with those of virgin rats who had been given cocaine, they found that the same areas of the brain lit up in both groups. But when given a choice, rats with young babies consistently chose suckling their pups over cocaine. The "lactation high," researchers tell Science magazine, was more pleasurable than the artificial kind. The results, say researchers, suggest that nature rewards mothers for nururing their young.