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Exposure of fantasies in medical research and in psychiatric research.
Audience effects on food caching in grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis): evidence for pilferage avoidance strategies, brain scan, brain-waves, criticism of peer review, critique of peer review, Diagnostic stability of psychiatric disorders in clinical practice, dominance hierarchy, DSM, EEG, electroencephalograph, ESS, evolutionarily stable strategy, exploitation, false positive result, fluoxetine, Heschl’s gyrus, ICD, intimation, lasers, lithium salts, masking procedures, MRI, peer review system, prozac, research bias, The Dominance Hierarchy and the Evolution of Mental Illness, The Link Between Structural and Functional Brain Abnormalities in Depression: A Systematic Review of Multimodal Neuroimaging Studies, transverse temporal gyrus, unreliable psychiatric diagnoses, vocalisation, Wikipedia: can eeg diagnose a mood disorder?The risk of accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is illustrated by the variant of ‘depression’ which is due to excessive inhibition in unequal relationships. Medical training conditions doctors to focus on the individual, but psychiatry requires a wider view of family and colleagues. General practitioners in an affluent area have been known to resist a family…
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Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.
apperception, autism, cancellation signals, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertionVisual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges of arousal that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception: apperception minus corollary discharge equals perception. Arousal that has been inhibited…
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The adolescent who feared abandonment as a child has dissembled through crypsis and has dissimulated through camouflage and mimicry. Increased arousal causes the part of the adolescent that has survived through crypsis to surface as unconditioned responses, that is delusions, while the part of the adolescent that has been inhibited irretrievably, that is, deactivated, is…
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Punctuation.
A simple rule for the evolution of cooperation on graphs, AI, Digit ratio (2D : 4D) moderates the impact of sexual cues on men’s decisions in ultimatum games…last sentence, ellipsis, exclamation, Lateralization of face processing in the human brain…MIT community participants, parapraxis, Perceptual fusion of musical notes by native Amazonians suggests universal representations of musical intervals, punctuation, punctuation and meaning, Selfishness as second-order altruism, The Logic of Animal ConflictIn texts, particular attention is required for brackets, quotation marks, hyphenation, dashes and slashes; upper case, heavy type, underlining and italics: the writer may be conveying doubts, or defensive emphasis, respectively. The appearance of quotation marks around previously unquoted words in a text suggests that doubts have occurred as the author has been writing. The…
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Verbs have voices, active and passive.Sentences in which the verb is in the passive voice are longer, because of the addition of the conjugated form of the verb “to be”, so that they suit someone who wishes to hear the sound of, or have the sight of, his or her own words. The passive voice…
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Verbs have moods, designated indicative, imperative, interrogative, subjunctive and conditional. The indicative mood is preferable at work, so as to avoid the speculation of the subjunctive mood and the limiting conditions of the conditional mood. Multiple subordinate clauses in the subjunctive mood suggest pseudo-conversation.Conclusions of a scientific report should be in the subjunctive mood or…
To be or not to be. 