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Posted by sigismund on January 12, 2013, at 16:49:19
This might be good. I heard some this morning and will listen to it all now.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/podcasts/
It topped 50C in Oodnatta the other day. Just terrible weather.
Posted by sigismund on January 12, 2013, at 16:51:24
In reply to Drugs and neuro stuff, posted by sigismund on January 12, 2013, at 16:49:19
You have to scroll down and find 'The Addicted Brain' and click on that.
It doesn't sound promising but I was impressed with what I heard
Posted by Beckett on January 12, 2013, at 22:12:21
In reply to Drugs and neuro stuff, posted by sigismund on January 12, 2013, at 16:49:19
That's about 120 degrees F? We're at our deepest winter. Which is mild here.
My device won't play the podcast. Hear anything of special note?
Posted by sigismund on January 13, 2013, at 1:54:13
In reply to Re: Drugs and neuro stuff, posted by Beckett on January 12, 2013, at 22:12:21
He (whoever he was) is now a professor of neuroscience of some sort. Up until age 30 he took a lot of drugs...acid, pot, heroin, methamphetamine, opiates, crack and so on. At age 30 he had some kind of crisis or epiphany and stopped. There was legal stuff. He wrote the book about looking at that history with the neuroscience he now teaches in mind. He was good on mind/brain and free will vs biological determinism.
We had 3 years of rain and now Australia has decided to have no rain and plenty of heat. Luckily the fires have not been bad.....just 100 houses in Tasmania and some grass fires, but not those fearsome eucalypt fires. Couple of months to go though.
Posted by sigismund on January 13, 2013, at 12:54:44
In reply to Re: Drugs and neuro stuff, posted by Beckett on January 12, 2013, at 22:12:21
Ganoderma lucidum is an interesting herb/mushroom for lost causes, including neurasthenia. It is certainly calming.
Another interesting thing he said about the function of cannabinoid receptors was that sense we can have in adolescence of the profundity of our own feeling. Those receptors are proliferating around that time. He suggested that it may have been to give adolescents courage and confidence. I do not have any sense of that now.
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