Respighi: Fountains of RomeCarson McCullers wrote The Heart is a Lonely Hunter when she was 23. It became a literary sensation, though she was already suffering from rheumatic fever and would live most of her remaining life handicapped by a series of strokes. She wrote most often of love, loneliness, and empathy for the human condition.I haven�t written a philosophical post in a while. Maybe because...
Minggu, 24 Maret 2013
Jumat, 22 Maret 2013
Malnourishment in Infancy and Adult Personality Traits
Posted on 17.15 by chorili
I could have sworn I�d written about the Barbados long-term malnutrition follow-up study before, but I could not for the life of me remember the context or the name of the article. That�s the problem with having over 350 articles since 2010�I tried looking for the similarly-designed Mauritius study and found it at the bottom of this breezy post from last summer, Mainstreaming. In that study, poor...
Senin, 11 Maret 2013
Folate and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia
Posted on 15.25 by chorili
The psychiatric symptoms of schizophrenia are defined in two major categories, "positive" and "negative." So-called positve symptoms are called so because they are an addition that people without psychosis don't experience, such as hallucinations and delusions and disorganized behavior. The negative symptoms represent functions being taken away from the brain and can be apathy, social withdrawal,...
Selasa, 05 Maret 2013
The Grand Theory
Posted on 12.41 by chorili
Last week there was a bit of hubbub as a new paper was printed in The Lancet, Identification of risk loci with shared effects on five major psychiatric disorders: a genome-wide analysis. Django Django DefaultThe paper is a dense discussion of the higher maths of a large genome-wide association study. There�s all sorts of statistical wizardry going on with triple pseudocontrols and a number of...
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