We are currently witnessing more than his usual state of instability — in fact, a pattern of decompensation: increasing loss of touch with reality, marked signs of volatility and unpredictable behavior, and an attraction to violence as a means of coping.
But I think there might be another way to understand the attraction of unpredictable romantic partners, one that involves a quirk of the brain's reward circuit, a primitive neural network buried deep in our brains that is exquisitely sensitive to various rewards, like sex, money and food.
Most people think of attraction as unpredictable and mysterious, but I think that there are patterns.
'Follow the leader' chain migration, in which cells maintain relatively stable relations with the same neighbors, 'run and tumble', in which directional migration is followed by random and unpredictable cell movement, 'mutual co-attraction' and 'contact inhibition' are all examples of migratory behaviors that have been described for NC cells.
Programs will be crowded with a variety of unpredictable dance, music and performance-art attractions.
Combining stimulation of pairs of glomeruli produces unpredictable results: some pairs sum to produce attraction greater than that elicited by either component, but others produce the same behavior as the more attractive component alone.
A truism both veteran drivers and fans know too well, it is part of the attraction of the 24, difficult, unforgiving, unpredictable, a race where nothing can be taken for granted, factors that make a win here all the sweeter.
At Harvard, Dr. George Whitesides is experimenting with magnetite and iron beads to explore how forces of repulsion, attraction and energy dissipation interact to form unpredictable complex patterns.
Our results highlight the value of using both floral scent attraction as well as a reward in order to cope with an unpredictable community of pollinators.
At an event where the attraction is orchestrated capriciousness, Williams's fame has spread because he is equally unpredictable.
