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The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Neuroscience of Connection

Researchers at Princeton hooked up speakers and listeners to FMRI machines. When there was this moment of understanding the transfer of memories, feelings, information, it actually shows up of neural patterns syncing up. The research now, it's not only in our neural patterns, but it's things like respiration. It's our heartbeats. We sync up so completely with one another. And that is what nourishes us. That is what releases all these feel-good neurochemicals that make us feel okay,.That make us feel safe, that make us feeling happy.

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