Archive for the 'Anatomy' Category
Women Get Drunk, High and Addicted Easier Than Men
Posted in Anatomy, Books, Psychology on May 17th, 2006
Read THIS in Livescience:
The study documents how women, pound-for-pound, not only get more drunk or higher faster then men, but also become addicted more easily. The research results are presented in a new book from CASA called "Women Under the Influence" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
According to Foster, each single drink hits a woman like [...]
There was a medical report on tv tonight, amid all the bad football, I lost track of who ran it. I thought it was Fox, but I can’t find it now. The jist of the story was that ADD/ADHD is horribly overdiagnosed. However, in trying to find it, I found this:
There is a clinical study [...]
The history of ADD, Pt 2
Posted in Anatomy on Sep 10th, 2004
Well, no sooner than I rant about ADD and ADHD not really existing, MSNBC informs me of the:
Long thought to be a condition of childhood that kids grow out of, recent research shows that up to 60 percent of children with ADHD continue having symptoms after they become adults.
It’s a common chronic disorder that [...]
Last night I didn’t sleep too well. Nothing terribly unusual about that. However, during my tossing and turning, I got to thinking how comfortable the couch would be. But, since it was kinda cold, and I didn’t have a blanket available right then, I toughed it out on the bed.
Which got me thinking. Why is [...]

