Andrew Huberman· PhD
And we've shown that some of those connections are mutually inhibitory, to prevent the animal from attacking a mate that it's supposed to be mating with, or to prevent it from mating with an animal it's supposed to be attacking.
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And we've shown that some of those connections are mutually inhibitory, to prevent the animal from attacking a mate that it's supposed to be mating with, or to prevent it from mating with an animal it's supposed to be attacking.
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And there are dense interconnections between these two nuclei which are very close to each other into the in the brain. But it's also possible that there are some cooperative interactions between those structures as well as uh antagonistic interactions.
And VMH are the make, war, not love neurons.