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"If you can’t seem to make yourself happy, do little things to make other people happy. This is a very effective magic trick. Focus on...

"...Because limbic resonance and regulation join human minds together in a continuous exchange of influential signals, every brain is ...

"Dozens of studies demonstrate that solitary people have a vastly increased rate of premature death from all causes - they are three t...

"...Within the effulgence of their new brain, mammals developed a capacity we call limbic resonance - a symphony of mutual exchange an...

Evolution is not an upward staircase "Many people conceive of evolution as an upward staircase, an unfolding sequence that produces ev...

From 'Strange Behavior, Tales of Evolutionary Neurology', Harold Klawans, M.D: "...While improved hunting implements could ass...

".....one Sunday morning in 1971, Lewis was summoned to a terrifying scene. A man was holding a loaded gun on his family, threatening ...

"The Pleiades, an open star cluster, sparkles in the constellation Taurus. ..Although I can't see it with the naked eye, I know a ...

"...Storr sees in Churchill's story a classic relationship between depression and hostility, in which an emotionally deprived chil...

"...For most of his life, he (Winston Churchill) crumbled under the repeat blows of a depression so familiar, loud, and unshakable, th...

"You don't think in depression that you've put on a gray veil and are seeing the world through the haze of a bad mood. You thi...

"A lot of people thought that the brain after clinical death was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the waking state, and...

Will scientific progress undermine our sense that we have free will? Will it eventually lead us to conclude that free will is an illusion? ...

"Dreams are not without sense, nor are they best understood to be expressions of infantile wishes. They are the result of the intercon...

 Continued, from the post below: "In June 1974 the Broadway producer Joshua Logan described his manic-depressive illness to a se...

So friend calls to say that X committed suicide today, after a long struggle with depression. In spite of all the help we tried to get for ...

Description of 'A First-Rate Madness, Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness', Nassir Ghaemi. The Penguin Press,...

"...Central to answering these questions are two fairly recent insights of brain research. One concerns the parts of the brain that pro...

 From 'The Decisive Moment, How the Brain Makes Up Its Mind' (Page 31), Jonah Lehrer: "...So how do professional cricketers m...

"In today's excerpt - chess grandmasters have average cognitive skills and average memories for matters outside of chess, and only ...