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- Gaslighting
- Interviewing the Children of Nazi Leaders: Guilt, Trauma, and the Legacy of Atrocity
- Decoding Espionage: Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Secret Intelligence War
- I’m Trans. This Is My Story
- Why That 140-Year-Old Hairbrush Still Sells: Consumer Psychology and Mythmaking
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- The Four Horseman of the Woo-pocalypse join President Trump to spread autism pseudoscience and quackery
- America’s Quack (now CMS Administrator) Dr. Oz goes authoritarian quack…again
- Dr. Pierre Kory promotes an old lie about vaccines and SIDS
- “Voices of the Vaccine-injured”: Old school antivax nonsense on steroids
- Antivaxxers will testify before a Senate committee…again
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Neuroskeptic- Goodbye Discover
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- The Man Who Thought AIDS Was All In The Mind
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Tuesday Mental Movie Night: ‘Storm: The Animated Movie’
One of the easiest things in the world is to dismiss the people who insist on believing in fairies, auras, vaccination and “big pharma” conspiracies, indigo children or the gospel of L. Ron Hubbard as being harmless fringe lunatics. Not … Continue reading
Even more studies into Schizophrenia, Bipolar, Autism, Alzheimer’s and confirming the rights of the mentally ill
“The risk of developing schizophrenia is about one percent – around the globe. But in the northeast of Finland, the mental disorder occurs three times more frequently than in other parts of the world. The northern regions are home to … Continue reading
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Still salted but without the lithium
I forgot how vivid my dreams can be when I’m not taking the lithium. I’ve been off for almost four months now. For ten years lithium carbonate kept me sane. It gave me the base on which to build my … Continue reading
Even more studies into the biology of manic depression, schizophrenia and diabetes
“…recent studies have shown that genes linked to mental illness are also involved in the generation of circadian rhythms and sleep, while some clock genes have also been shown to influence the development of certain specific mental illnesses. This new … Continue reading
Some studies into the biology of manic depression and schizophrenia
“Certain brain regions in people with major depression are smaller and less dense than those of their healthy counterparts. Now, researchers have traced the genetic reasons for this shrinkage. “Brain-imaging studies, post-mortem examinations of human brains and animal studies have … Continue reading
Back in a minute.
Turns out moving in with two children, and learning the schedule and eccentricities of another adult, takes time… and patience. And time. So… yeah. . .
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