Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
Michael’s problems started, according to his mother, around age 3, shortly after his brother Allan was born. At the time, she said, Michael was mostly just acting “like a brat,” but his behavior soon escalated to throwing tantrums during which he would scream and shriek inconsolably. These weren’t ordinary toddler’s fits. When Anne and Miguel first took Michael to see a therapist, he was given a diagnosis of “firstborn syndrome”: acting out because he resented his new sibling. By the time he turned 5, Michael had developed an uncanny ability to switch from full-blown anger to moments of pure rationality or calculated charm — a facility that Anne describes as deeply unsettling. Anne and Miguel live in a small coastal town south of Miami, the kind of place where children ride their bikes on well-maintained cul-de-sacs. “We have bookshelves full of these books — ‘The Defiant Child’, ‘The Explosive Child,’ ” she told me. At 37, Anne is voluble and frank. It certainly seemed so.
Are musicians our external brains?
Thats pretty hipster of you. You should appreciate the fact that the people that are making the music you love are getting a nice paycheck. Are you just trolling me out of spite, now, or what? No - yours was the first comment (well at the top of the page) - and I felt the need to interject. I never said they were selling out, and indeed, I am very happy they're getting paid and widely recognized. I like the Black Keys, and I'm happy they're successful, but there is such a thing as too much success, particularly in the music business. In an unrelated note: it's generally poor form to tell people what they should and shouldn't do; just FYI.
The girl in the window
Part One: The Feral Child PLANT CITY — The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three years when someone first saw a child's face in the window. A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered. Everyone knew a woman lived in the house with her boyfriend and two adult sons. But they had never seen a child there, had never noticed anyone playing in the overgrown yard. The girl looked young, 5 or 6, and thin. The child stared into the square of sunlight, then slipped away. Months went by. Just before noon on July 13, 2005, a Plant City police car pulled up outside that shattered window. Clutching his stomach, the rookie retched in the weeds. Plant City Detective Mark Holste had been on the force for 18 years when he and his young partner were sent to the house on Old Sydney Road to stand by during a child abuse investigation. They found a car parked outside. "Unbelievable," she told Holste. Dr. Click.
Genie (feral child)
Genie (born 1957) is the pseudonym of a feral child who was the victim of extraordinarily severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. Her circumstances are recorded prominently in the annals of abnormal child psychology.[2] Born in Arcadia, California, United States, Genie's father kept her locked alone in a room from the age of 20 months to 13 years, 7 months, almost always strapped to a child's toilet or bound in a crib with her arms and legs completely immobilized. During this time she was never exposed to any significant amount of speech, and as a result she did not acquire a first language during childhood. In the first several years after Genie's life and circumstances came to light, psychologists, linguists and other scientists focused a great deal of attention on Genie's case, seeing in her near-total isolation an opportunity to study many aspects of human development. Genie was the fourth and last child of parents living in Arcadia, California.
Can a 16-Year-Old Girl Be a Cougar? Asks the New York Times - National
Is there a G-rated word more hideous and nasty to women than the word "cougar"? Wait, that's rhetorical. But, seriously. Cougars: They are big cats. They are not ladies of any sort. They are not, especially, women who deign to date younger guys, for whatever reason, and are therefore seen as preying on them and/or tearing them apart (emotionally, physically, sexually, whatever) with their vicious metaphorical sharp teeth and claws. The double standard is obvious. To apply the term "cougar" to a woman dating someone younger than herself is gross, in an espeially bro-tastic sort of way. Recently, as I heard my daughter, a junior in high school, and her friends discuss their plans for the prom, I had a vaguely troubling thought: can a 16-year-old be a cougar? Conlin goes on to reflect upon her own prom days, in which she went with an older boy, a time in which neither she nor her friends would have ever considered dating anyone younger than they were. Nicer to date.
How do you really know what time it is?
This seems backwards: "Let's start with caffeine, which makes your internal clock go faster. If your brain normally stores 60 pulses for 60 seconds, your brain on caffeine stores 100 pulses. Two things happen as a result. First, when you retrieve your time memory, that minute will seem shorter than the 60 seconds it actually took. So a speedy clock means that time gets faster." If normally I do 60 pulses, 1 per second, but caffeine makes it so I take 100 samples in a second, then that second will seem longer, not shorter, when I remember it. Slower internal clocks would speed up time, because relatively, I would have less reference points for any time interval that passed compared to before, and thus it would seem like more time had passed than actually had. This combined with uniqueness of experience is likely the main 2 causes for it seeming like time in general goes by faster as we get older.
Haloperidol
Haloperidol is an antipsychotic medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia, acute psychosis, and delirium. Haloperidol is a butyrophenone derivative and functions as an inverse agonist of dopamine. It is classified as a typical antipsychotic and has pharmacological effects similar to the phenothiazines. A long-acting decanoate ester of haloperidol is used as an injection given every four weeks to people with schizophrenia or related illnesses who have poor adherence to medication regimens and suffer frequent relapses of illness, or to overcome the drawbacks inherent to its orally administered counterpart. Haloperidol is sold under the tradenames Aloperidin, Bioperidolo, Brotopon, Dozic, Duraperidol (Germany), Einalon S, Eukystol, Haldol (common tradename in the US and UK), Halosten, Keselan, Linton, Peluces, Serenace and Sigaperidol. Medical uses[edit] Haloperidol is used in the control of the symptoms of: Pregnancy and lactation[edit] Other considerations[edit] Adverse effects[edit]
The Neuroscience of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
I'd just assumed that most implants and augmentations were designs to deliberately not mesh well with the human body as a means to control the masses and exploit them for money. Now Jensen never had problems with his implants, right? Why was that? So all of those problems that supposedly should't be problems are probably either deliberately caused by the implants, caused by the medicine or both.
