A Cure for Pain?
It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there’s an underlying assumption that we shouldn’t be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself.
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It seems not only that everyone is in pain, but that there’s an underlying assumption that we shouldn’t be, creating an extra layer of suffering on top of the pain itself.
How can we best tweak and optimise our mental machinery for peak performance? Drugs and some forms of meditation are offered as means to the goal. But what if ‘savant’ skills were actually in some sense our mind’s default, before we all got so educated, and so distracted?
The latest numbers on ADHD appear to be seriously out of step with historical prevalence rates and suggest an epidemic not so much of occurrence but rather of over-diagnosis.
The latest hoped-for breakthrough drug in the fight against Alzheimer’s has been scrapped. But all is not quite as bleak as it might seem: drugs like bapineuzumab might still prove useful as an early intervention vehicle, possibly preventing plaques from forming and building up in the brains of individuals who show early signs of cognitive problems thought to be precursors of Alzheimer’s.
Although film critics have given Limitless tepid praise, I found this movie to be deeply meaningful as a therapist. Understand Limitless and you understand many of the dreams and nightmares that haunt modern life.
Hot on the heels of our expansion into mental health-related and health-related Facebook apps, the health team is now leading the way in delivering practically up-to-the-minute medication information for consumers and health professionals, straight from the US Food and Drug Administration.
It’s wrong to lump drug use and drug abuse together, say the authors of a forthcoming paper. On the contrary, most people who take psychoactive drugs will never be addicts, and for them, drug taking may be an adaptive and rational decision.
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