An interesting article in the June issue of Scientific American. I know, this is August and I am reading the June issue. Did you hear about the guy who ran into the bathroom, slipped, and fell on top of the magazines stacked there? He got a little behind in his reading. I know it is a horrible joke. No threats of violence nor nasty responses, please.

This particular article, entitled “The Healthy Type”, is about the neurobiology of blogging. The idea of the article is that it has a therapeutic value. Of course, we all knew that already.

“Self medication may be the reason the blogosphere has taken off. Scientists (and writers) have long known about the therapeutic effects of writing about personal experiences, thoughts, and feelings. ..... Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral loads in AIDS patients.....cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing just before treatment felt markedly better, mentally and physically...”

There are even diseases that result in compulsive writing called “hypergraphia”. The part of the brain that controls writing, the midbrain, controls all compulsions, writing, appetite, sex, etc. So blogging is related to sex! Knew it all along. fMRI studies have shown it!

So keep on bloggin'. It is good for you.

But it has not chased away the purple and orange lizards that keep crawling all over me. Nor the dreams I get after eating tacos. But I want those to continue. Yeehaw!