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Who gets to define what is normal?
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact & the social fact a political event."
Quotes from R.D.Laing's "The Politics of Experience" (1967).
Image: The Cognitive Disorder Atlas
"A useful tool to understand some clinically relevant relationships between brain structure and focal neuropsychological syndromes"
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"Scientists grow human brain cells in rats to study diseases"
#Comment: Despite all ethical arguments, human-animal chimera research is advancing rapidly. What is possible & likely being done behind closed doors, has eclipsed the public imagination by far.
Art: Human-Mouse Chimera - An Experiment Gone Wrong - by Daisy Stapleton
Related: Ethical arguments concerning human-animal chimera research: a systematic review -
Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? - Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare.
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It is the consumer who is consumed. You are the product.
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Lifestyle Medicine: The Health Promoting Power of Daily Habits and Practices
The majority of deaths are due to a few causes, and preventable risk factors are a key driver of many. If we are serious about improving the health of humanity, we invest less in complex tech solutions ("A.I driven Biotech, etc.) & more in "Lifestyle change as medicine".
