Tag: mood disorders

• He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf

  I am an obstetrician, and not a neuropsychiatrist, but I feel a definite uneasiness with the idea of messing with brains –especially from the inside. Talking at it, sure –maybe even tweaking it with medications- but it seems to me there is something… sacrosanct about its boundaries. Something akin to black-boxhood -or pregnant-wombhood, if you […]

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  January 16, 2019

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  algorithms, Alik Widge, Black box, Boston, brain, brain implants, closed-loop stimulation, DARPA, deep-brain stimulation, Edward Chang, epilepsy, ethics, Harvard University, journal Nature, Massachusetts General Hospital, mental illness, mood disorders, neuropsychiatry, Omid Sani, Parkinson’s disease, personality, Science, unintended consequences, University of California San Francisco, University of Southern California in Los Angeles

• Whether ’tis Nobler in the Mind

  I may have inadvertently stumbled upon something important. I may have found a boundary marker that potentially distinguishes New Age from Old Age. Of course, definitionally I could be way out of my league –New Age being construed as anything that happened after I left university- but considered as a panoply, I think it works, […]

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  April 4, 2018

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  1984, advertisments, American Psychiatric Association’s workgroup on smartphone apps, artificial intelligence, biographers, CBC News, correspondence, culture, diaries, digital, Dr. John Torous, emotions, federal privacy laws, Generation R, Harvard Medical School, mental health, mood disorders, new age, old age, Orwell, privacy, Shakespeare, technology