Monthly Archives: July 2009

Friday Dysfunctional Roundup: Envy and Schadenfreude

July 31, 2009
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Oxytocin is a blessing and a curse, like most things in life.

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Frontotemporal dementias looking like sociopaths — is it a protection against elder abuse?

July 29, 2009
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Before you slip totally away, you lose your ability to be moral. Is that a natural defense against those scheming potential heirs who can't wait to get their hands on the inheritance?

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Daylight on Magic: Goldman Sachs No Longer Royalty

July 28, 2009
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Daylight on Magic: Goldman Sachs No Longer Royalty

Founding fathers noted that the Brits keep the Queen above it all by avoiding shining "daylight upon magic". Goldman Sachs thinks they're royalty.

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Healthcare reform: Appoint an obesity Czar. Exhibit A: CDC’s Wrongheaded Anti-Obesity Strategy Will Result In Spending Outrageous Amounts of Money With No Reduction in Childhood Obesity

July 26, 2009
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CDC's non-science based policy recommendations to battle childhood obesity highlight the need for interdisciplinary obesity research: appoint an obesity czar and let's move on with our lives.

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Friday Dysfunctional Roundup Courtroom Drama: Who do you believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?

July 24, 2009
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Lawyer brought up on ethics violations for bad behavior looks like he shoves state ethics officer during closing argument of ethics violation hearing. Video

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Nothing is cheaper than death

July 23, 2009
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Nothing is cheaper than death

YES public health insurance option. This is ridiculous. Get a clue Congress. Private insurance companies are basically financial services companies. We need actual insurance.

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Is autism really a form of synesthesia?

July 22, 2009
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Throw out the DSM and just classify psychiatric conditions on the basis of neural wiring: everyone's a synesthete.

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The smell of fear and how to design a perfume that makes others perceive you as powerful

July 21, 2009
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Perfume and particle physics; chemosensory information detected by electron vibration. If you don't want to communicate anything with your chemicals, create chemosensory anti-matter.

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Brain anatomy: Brain asymmetry is for communicating; brain symmetry is for feeling emotion

July 20, 2009
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Brain anatomy: Brain asymmetry is for communicating; brain symmetry is for feeling emotion

Brief report, brain asymmetry, handedness and emotion.

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Healthcare cost: Mood disorders, $777MM in 2007

July 19, 2009
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"Mood disorders" cost almost $1B -- not including non-hospitalized people and people who are diagnosed with "adjustment disorder" generally.

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