Kitteh says, "It won't be winter forever!"
Posted on 10/14/2019 10:45:03 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In the 1950s, researchers stumbled upon a new class of drugs that provided relief for those suffering from schizophrenia. These drugs were known as antipsychotics and, as the name suggests, they reduced symptoms like hallucinations and delusions — primarily by reducing the levels of dopamine in the brain. This led clinicians and scientists to argue that dopamine was linked to the experiences of psychotic symptoms, and a concerted research effort ensued, seeking to solve the puzzle of why excess dopamine might produce hallucinations.
Although it was later shown that increasing dopamine could produce hallucinations, establishing a consistent link between them, it has not been clear why.
They achieved this by taking advantage of a simple fact: Your brain is lazy. It makes shortcuts to understand the deluge of information that bombards it daily. If you’re presented with consistent information, consistently, your brain adjust its expectations of reality in turn. This is the basis of Bayesian theories of how we perceive the world – that is, the brain makes inferences about the world around us based on statistics and probabilities on what is likely to occur.
[I]ncreasing dopamine made it more difficult for participants to adjust their perception — an effect comparable to how the hallucinators had struggled. Moreover, the extent to which participants struggled was strongly associated with the severity of hallucinations — but not with any diagnosis of schizophrenia. In other words, the difficulty appeared to be associated with a symptom, not a diagnosis.
Using brain imaging, the researchers also showed that an increased capacity for dopamine release, from a part of the brain known as the striatum (an area involved in schizophrenia), was associated with the severity of hallucinations. Together, these experiments showed that excess dopamine was associated with difficulty in accurately predicting reality.
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Kitteh says, "It won't be winter forever!"
In aid of helping the Certain Young Adult get an idea of reality, I’ve just been looking at the websites of local apartment complexes. A 1-br at the complex up the road, where Mariah from my choir lives, is $1,500/mo. An efficiency on the near side of Monroe is $725/mo.
She’s going to need to be promoted to management, get a roommate, or both!
Kitteh is looking for sumpin’ to attack with vigah!
Good morning.
It started to rain about 2100 last night, (accompanied by some sound and light special effects) and has been raining ever since. Flash flood warnings in parts of NV, UT and AZ. No doubt the newcomers will have problems learning how to drive when the rain falls in the desert. SOS. ;o]
I had the strangest urge last night, when I heard the rain hitting the swamp cooler housing, to just get in the car and drive...
Two things stopped me. People were still trying to get home from wherever, and I didn’t want to wake up enough to actually drive!
Wow. That’s discouraging. I hope there is some inspiration for Another Alternative. Like moving in with roomies who are looking for a new body to share expenses.
Perhaps there is something in the want ads in the Nifty Nickel or Dandy Dime or Thrifty Tenner.
I’m sure there are lower rents available. This was just what I would consider a decent place in the immediate area. I know some Mexican families who would welcome a few hundred a month from a boarder, but most of them have their own teenaged disasters to deal with, so it wouldn’t be fair to them!
Yes, the probably with a teenaged disaster is that its contagious to other teens and hazardous to the adults.
OK, Undeaders. ‘Face has some news.
My oldest grandson has decided that he doesn’t like being a civilian so he is going to enlist in the navy. He was in the army before, and spent a year in Afghanistan, and has decided that the army is not what he wants. His wife agrees. So I think Friday is the day. I’ll let y’all know when it happens.
He does NOT like living in Oregon!
Good morning. Happy Humph Day!
This morning started with me dropping my phone (again) and cracking the screen. Can I declare today a bust and start again tomorrow?
Absolutely! That would just result in you have an extra Monday, again...
Will wonders never cease! I guess there are some small benefits to a liberal US State.
For reasons I won’t go into now, we decided to register the car we had been storing in the wildlands of PA for the past 5 years. Since we weren’t driving it, I let the registration lapse.
PA won’t let me register it there without a PA ID with a PA address on it. I’m not sure I want to get a PA Driver’s License since I plan to move back to NYS very soon.
So I called the NYS DMV to find out if I need a NYS address to register the car there. The official answer is “no.” To verify, I just went online and updated the address for the car that had been registered in NY and was up for renewal. Then I renewed the registration on that car. $52 later, it’s all done.
Mrs. ArGee was the one that asked if I could be an illegal alien in NY I should be able to register a PA car in NY. And she was right.
Who knew I would be glad one day.
Thank you.
Hey, y’all.
Fingerlings and depredations
Prayers up that it’s the correct decision for them.
GOP was described as: Lion, Bear, Boar, Sloth, Snake, Mercedes
Dems were described as: Monkey, Sheep, Unicorn, Jackal, Turtle, Groundhog
If it isn’t the right decision, they won’t know until its too late. But they both like military life (with a military family of a whole buncha years) and I can see nothing to stop them. He’s had some college since then, so I suspect he won’t have to be an EM.
Hobbes always has my vote, and Calvin is incidental.
Toss up as to who’s the funniest!
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