Tag: Rules to stay Happy
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THE TRIPM OF PHARMACOLOGY
THE TRIUMPH OF PHARMACOLOGYIndic no takelong for pharmacology totevoitionize psychiatry. Drugs eareI did not frenter sense of efcacy and piovided a tool beyond talk therap;,doctor is produced income and profis, fiants from the pharmaceut%),Industry provided us with laboratories filed with energetic graduate student,ind sophisticated instruments. Psychiatry departments, which had alwaybeen located in the basements of…
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PART :3
difference: It gave PTSD patients a sense of perspective?’ and helped them togain considerable control over their impulses. Jeffrey Gray must have been rightWhen their serotonin levels rose, many of my patients became less reactive.
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SOOTHING The Brain:: part 2
The levels dropped when they were prevented from maintaining eye contact withThe monkeys they had once lorded over In contrast, low-ranking monkey,the livere given serotonin supplements emerged from the pack to assumeleadership.” The social environment interacts with brain chemistry, Maniplacing a monkey into a lower position in the dominance hierarchy made hi.serotonin drop, while chemically…
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SOOTHING THE BRAIN
SOOTHING THE BRAINThe 1985 ACNP meeting was, if possible, even more thought provoking thanthe previous year’s session. Kings College professor Jeffrey Gray gave a talkabout the amygdala, a cluster of brain cells that determines whether a sound,image, or body sensation is perceived as a threat. Gray’s data showed that thesensitivity of the amygdala depended, at…
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Part 2::
Having observed that 75 percent of severely wounded soldiers on the Italianfront did not request morphine, a surgeon by the name of Henry K. Beecherspeculated that “strong emotions can block pain.”6Were Beecher’s observations relevant to people with PTSD? Mark Green-berg, Roger Pitman, Scott Orr, and I decided to ask eight Vietnam combatveterans if they would…
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Trauma Therapy
DIAGNOSING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESSIn those early days at the VA, we labeled our veterans with all sorts ofdiagnoses–alcoholism, substance abuse, depression, mood disorder, evenschizophrenia–and we tried every treatment in our textbooks. But for allour efforts it became clear that we were actually accomplishing very little.The powerful drugs we prescribed often left the men in such a…
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Trauma Therapy
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening; the smaller thedoubt, the smaller the awakening. No doubt, no awakening.-C.-C. Chang, The Practice of ZenYou live through that little piece of time that is yours, but that pieceof time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the otherlives that are simultaneous…
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Trauma and its Effects
DIAGNOSING POSTTRAUMATIC STRESSIn those early days at the VA, we labeled our veterans with all sorts ofdiagnoses–alcoholism, substance abuse, depression, mood disorder, evenschizophrenia–and we tried every treatment in our textbooks. But for allour efforts it became clear that we were actually accomplishing very little.The powerful drugs we prescribed often left the men in such a…
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Trauma Therapy
TRAUMA AND THE LOSS OF SELFThe fast study I did at the VA started with systematically asking weren,What had happened to them in Vietnam I wanted to know what had pue?When over the brink, and why some had broken down as a result of tgexperiencewhile others had been able to go on with their lives.:…
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HOW TO GET OUT OF TRAUMA
TRAUMA AND THE LOSS OF SELFThe fast study I did at the VA started with systematically asking weren,What had happened to them in Vietnam I wanted to know what had pue?When over the brink, and why some had broken down as a result of tgexperiencewhile others had been able to go on with their lives.:…
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