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Panorama of the East Coast

This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA
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DSM-Fail – when normal is disordered

10 September, 2010

By Raphael Fraser

You know what I hate? … Right now, I mean … I hate the stupidity of so many psychiatric diagnostic labels. At this moment I’m reading through a patient’s notes, and the wonderful epithet “Adjustment Disorder” pops up. Ick. Yuk. And Bleh also. So how is Adjustment Disorder defined? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual...

Thalamic Dopamine: a possible link between creativity and mental illness

29 June, 2010

By Raphael Fraser

This post is specially for a friend who asked for an explanation of this article about the relation of thalamic dopamine D2 receptor densities to psychometric creativity shorn of big words I’m thinking that each paragraph may well degenerate into wordiness (hey, it’s me) but in the first sentence or two per...

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