It's All in Your Mind

In discussions with people more "tolerant" than I am, I have been told that I should think of sex change as "therapy" for the condition of body dysmorphia; although it seems to me the only form of therapy that involves indulging the delusion of the person being treated.

If a middle-aged man said that he sexually identified as a teenage girl, would he be allowed to hang out in high school girls locker rooms? You know, for therapeutic purposes? Somehow, I don't think that dog would hunt.

When I look at the glamorous pictures of Bruce Jenner dolled up as Caitlyn, with his flowing locks, long lashes, plump lips, and full breasts, I have to laugh. Not at him, but at the irony of it. What Jenner seems to have achieved with a lot of money, cosmetic surgeons, and talented makeup artists, I wanted desperately as a young girl and had to suffer through years of natural—and sometimes humiliating—development to attain.

You see, I wasn’t a very pretty girl. …

…In a series of experiments on mice involving a technique called optogenetics – when light is used to activate specific nerve cells in the brain – the researchers found that it was possible for the mice to remember a memory that had previously been lost.…

[When we were kids, we'd say a person was crazy as "going to Vinita!"]

VINITA, Okla. …For nearly a century, Oklahoma’s insane spent their days and nights behind barbed wire at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane. …now deserted and condemned; the last patients moved out in 2008. The Oklahoma Forensic Center (OFC) shares the property with the old Eastern State Hospital and is a modern day sanitorium with 200 beds. Most of the patients who live at OFC, about 120 people, are getting treatment so they can be competent to stand trial.…

April 16 is the anniversary of the discovery of LSD. Which prompts the sober reflection that sometimes in history, while the character of an era seems to depend on a particular person, idea or thing, that person, idea or thing needed the era to become significant too. [Video] …

In fact, a mind-altering compound found in some 200 species of mushroom is already being explored as a potential treatment for depression and anxiety. People who consume these mushrooms, after “trips” that can be a bit scary and unpleasant, report feeling more optimistic, less self-centered, and even happier for months after the fact. [Paging Dr. Alpert, Dr. Leary]

But researchers still don’t know exactly how the brain’s extra folds and convolutions translated into Einstein’s amazing abilities.

Lee Boyd Malvo said he remembers each of the sniper shootings in detail. But one moment — one image — stands out among the carnage of that terrifying time 10 years ago:

“Mr. Franklin’s eyes.”

We are more likely to be receptive to good news than bad…. a 40-second blast of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which sends magnetic pulses into the head, to disrupt different parts of their brains. In one group, the TMS was aimed at a part called the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), in another at the right IFG, and in the third, the target was a control region of the brain, where the pulses were not expected to have much effect. … Those who had magnetic stimulation to the right IFG, or a control part of the brain, showed the usual good news bias: that is, they updated their beliefs more on hearing good news…. But stimulation of the left IFG destroyed the bias. Those people were just as likely to change their views based on bad news as good. "We believe the left inferior frontal gyrus is normally inhibiting other parts of the brain from learning from bad news. But by interfering with the left IFG we're releasing this inhibition…."

At least a dozen people in the United States have been diagnosed with H-SAM [Highly Superior Auto-Biographical Memory]. “Every single thing that you have ever done is on your hard drive....” she believes that by improving your memory you can live a more conscious life.

Paranoid Personality Types — We're not crazy. Those are just Zionist lies spread by the CIA and utility companies. -Ace

ut in the first direct comparison of humans to chimpanzees, a brain-scanning team led by George Washington University anthropologist Chet Sherwood found that chimpanzees don't experience such brain loss. From that, researchers concluded that only people are afflicted by this oddity of longevity. "We are very weird animals," said Emory University anthropologist Todd Preuss at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who wasn't involved in the study. "Among neuroscientists, the assumption has been that species are all the same, but this shows there is something really unusual about the late-life biology of the human species."

a disproportionate number of psychopaths can be found in high places. Over the following months, I spoke to scores of psychologists who all said the same. Everyone in the field seemed to regard psychopaths in this same way: inhuman, relentlessly wicked forces, whirlwinds of malevolence, forever harming society but impossible to identify unless you're trained in the subtle art of spotting them, as I now was.