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Points of Interest, vol 2. #6
April 6, 2009 in Brain, ethics, healthcare, LDS, mind, Neurology, psychiatry, psychology, Science, Spirituality, technology | Tags: alzheimer disease, Barack Obama, bizarre, brain injury, carnivals, children, cornea, death, drama, dunkin donuts, dying, education, end of life, foreign body, happiness, health care, illusion, Islam, meaning, Missionaries, money, MRI, nurses, obesity, organ donation, palliative care, philosophy, pork, purpose, sedentary, tragedy | 1 comment
After an all too long break it’s back, the best and brightest of all things Mind, Soul, and Body on the internet-that I could find, anyway. I am a bit short on introduction today, dig in and enjoy- Read the rest of this entry »
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points of interest, vol 2, #3
February 9, 2009 in Brain, Depression, ethics, healthcare, LDS, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, Mormon, Neurology, psychology, Science, Spirituality, technology | Tags: anesthesia, blog carnivals, buddhism, burn victims, children, clotting factors, Colbert, courage, death, dentistry, development, doubt, dying, emotionality, endowment, evolution, faith, fossil, genetic engineering, goats, happiness, intelligent design, life, memory, milk, miracles, money, morality, neurons, numbness, physicians, play, RAM, rationality, recession, snakes, suffering, tragedy, trauma, virtual reality | 1 comment
And we’re back. It is time once again for my semi-regular offering of the choicest gems I found scouring the internet for all things mind, soul, and body. Today I have virtual reality, depression, doctors, some crucial playing around, the endowment of power, medicinal goats milk, courage, one ton snakes, how one can actually buy happiness, and child brought into an alternate reality by his neighborhood dentist, to name just a very few. So dig in and enjoy the very best of the internets- Read the rest of this entry »
From the Archives: Modern Medicine for the Manipulation of the Mind
January 2, 2009 in Brain, Depression, ethics, healthcare, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, psychiatry, psychology, Science, social phobia, technology | Tags: agency, betrayal, bioethics, choice, con artist, control, fear, finances, forgiveness, free will, freedom, intimacy, love, manipulation, medical ethics, money, neuroscience, oppression, oxytocin, power, prejudice, sex, stigma, trust | Leave a comment
First Published May 29, 2008.
It turns out that trust is chemical, at least according to modern neuroscience and research into oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the neuron part of the pituitary gland that has long been known to strengthen uterine contractions in childbirth and to start milk production in breast feeding. More recently, scientists have started to understand its role in brain and behavior with key role in trust. Read the rest of this entry »
Those People
September 17, 2008 in Medicine, Spirituality | Tags: charity, chronic illness, compassion, diabetes, Disability, ethics, health care, health insurance, love, medical ethics, money, politics, prejudice, pride, responsibility, stereotypes, taxes | 10 comments
As the presidential debates get revved up, I have been scrutinizing their health care plans. Both candidates rightly insist that something must be done to cover the ballooning and exploding population of uninsured in this country. For both, the solution will likely include a hit to the pocketbook of Joe Public, whether through taxes, or through private insurance companies that we are required to purchase coverage from. This has the standard libertarian masses quite upset. One thing I am hearing more and more about in the argument against universal Health care coverage is “those people.” Read the rest of this entry »
Modern medicine for manipulation of the mind
May 29, 2008 in Brain, Medicine, Mental Illness, mind, Neurology, psychiatry, psychology | Tags: agency, betrayal, bioethics, choice, con artist, control, Depression, ethics, fear, finances, forgiveness, free will, freedom, intimacy, love, manipulation, medical ethics, money, neuroscience, oppresion, oxytocin, power, prejudice, sex, social phobia, stigma, suffering, trust | 3 comments
It turns out that trust is chemical, at least according to modern neuroscience and research into oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone produced by the neuron part of the pituitary gland that has long been known to strengthen uterine contractions in childbirth and to start milk production in breast feeding. More recently, scientists have started to understand its role in brain and behavior with key role in trust. Read the rest of this entry »
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