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Maybe because you display your lack of confidence too readily?

I'm a specialist in sounding rude, friends will confirm :)

I'd say in social neuroscience one of the most well-known concepts is the so-called theory of mind - whatever brain processes go on when I try to emulate, model, or understand what other people around me are thinking. I do not necessarily like the concept, but it's an important one. The reason I don't necessarily like it is that I'm not sure we need a specific concept for when we model people's minds. I think that at any moment we develop models of the world. For instance if I press the pedal on a trash can I know it will result in it opening. So I have a model of the trash can. I also have a model of the relation between the keyboard of my computer and what is being displayed on the screen as I type. We have models of everything. Minds, or other people around us, are just one more type of objects that we develop models of.

No I was trying to look socially normal. Ask my colleagues actually.

Having talked to Kenneth Kosik, an expert on diet and brain health who will appear on Episode 7 of NEURO.tv, I would say the recommendations for a healthy brain are similar to the diet recommendations for health in general.

As for why the particular type of fatty acids would matter specifically for the brain, this is out of my field of expertise, but the brain is a very fatty organ, with neurons having highly developed membranes and oligodendrocytes furnishing even more wraps of membranes around the axons of neurons. So if you are interested in the subject definitely search for oligodendrocytes!