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May 20

Can testosterone boost/etc... change someone desire from responsive to spontaneous?

Can testosterone boost/etc... change someone desire from responsive to spontaneous?177.207.104.19 (talk) 01:37, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:39, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Sexual desire and various other related articles, which you could have found easily by putting 'responsive desire' into the search box of this encyclopedia. You often post similar nonproductive responses to things which you personally have not heard of, although many others have: it becomes tedious. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.67.173 (talk) 11:58, 20 May 2024 (UTC) [reply]

I see no harm in trying to encourage posters to link to what they're asking about. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:44, 20 May 2024 (UTC) [reply]

To be fair, there was a non-zero chance that it referred to a responsive to spontaneous change in the desire to fight strangers. Sean.hoyland (talk) 13:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC) [reply]

Theoretically. The funny thing is that the first sentence of 94.2.67.173's lecture to me could just as easily have served as a direct response to the poster. (Though maybe that was the point anyway!) ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:40, 20 May 2024 (UTC) [reply]

You may be thinking of the DRD5 gene, where some alleles are thought to be involved in spontaneity or lack thereof. Abductive (reasoning) 11:15, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Our article doesn't mention that, but implicates it in everything else: learning and memory, addiction, smoking, ADHD, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, locomotion, regulation of blood pressure, and immunity. What a busy gene. I guess you're referencing something along the lines of dopamine being important for the will to initiate movement, like in Awakenings. Card Zero (talk) 21:32, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

According to this review article, "of the few studies on T[estosterone] and desire in healthy women ... dyadic desire [desire in sex with a partner] has shown null or negative correlations with T". This suggests it is unlikely to achieve the specific effect. --Lambiam 08:58, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gregory Cochran

Has Gregory M. Cochran worked for Darpa? If so, in what capacity, if known?Rich (talk) 21:45, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This Gregory Cochran would be a likely candidate, but I could find no direct evidence to support this. This Gregory M. Cochran seems less likely. There was a 'Doug Cochran' at DARPA, however. --136.54.106.120 (talk) 01:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I bet those 2 Gregory Cochrans are the same.Rich (talk) 02:27, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You're correct: they each are "co-author of the book The 10,000 Year Explosion." That Edge link could be used as a source for updating the article. --136.54.106.120 (talk) 05:57, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder how often two people of the same name have written a book together. There must be some examples of father and son. —Tamfang (talk) 21:20, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]