Word: environmental
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...indicated that schizophrenics have 50% more dopamine in their brains than non-schizophrenics, and twice the number of dopamine receptors, the sites where the chemical locks into the central nervous system. One line of thinking is that some people are born with high dopamine levels, but that somehow an "environmental trigger," perhaps some life crisis, sets the stage for schizophrenia. But a growing opinion is that the sickness is entirely chemical. Says Matthysse: "I'd be surprised if family environment made the slightest difference...
For those who fear that the new researchers are out to reduce all human emotions and problems to chemistry's atoms and molecules, Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin, chief of clinical psychobiology at the National Institute of Mental Health, has a tranquilizing message: "There is a chemistry of the human brain...
The School of Public Health this month received two grants totalling $375,000 to support teaching and research into the connection between chemicals in the environment and illness, Dr. Howard H. Hiatt, dean of the School of Public Health, said yesterday.
Lionel Tiger's forthcoming book offers some slightly more definite advice-or at least postulation. Although he is not studying happiness as such, the anthropologist argues that humankind does not have to go looking far for its basic source of wellbeing: it is built right into the human body...
WITH THE CANCELLATION of Expository Writing's fiction option last week, Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen lost a valuable opportunity to write fiction in a small-group environment without the competitive pressure of advanced-level ficiton courses.