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...York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "the brain cannot handle all the messages. There is too much information flowing in, and the user becomes hyperaroused." With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light a kind of fire in the brain...
...dwindling federal money supply, Harvard researchers this year finished up a number of pioneering studies, venturing new ideas in almost every major scientific field. While Harvard has yet to come up with a cure for the common cold, its experimenters and theoreticians made headway in diagnosing cystic fybrosis, alleviating insomnia, and treating sickle-cell anemia...
...Hungarian Horror, since it can induce temporary dementia in otherwise balanced citizens. It has become, in the words of a senior buyer for FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy emporium, "the world's most asked-for plaything." It can also be an obsession, an infuriation and an invitation to insomnia, distracting workers from their jobs, students from their theses, even lovers from love. Scholars compare it to Sam Loyd's puzzle, an 1873 American invention that was said to have driven 1,500 people to insanity...
Typically, the strains of medicine are felt most acutely after ten to 15 years. Early signs of distress are extramarital affairs and physical upsets, including insomnia and diarrhea. Some suicidal physicians may also avoid social contact, draw up wills or make unexpected gifts. Says U.C.L.A. Thanatologist Edwin Shneidman: "If a colleague offers you his prized microscope, you might want to sit down with him and try to identify his problem...
...worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue." The story has the quality of an intense case study with cultural footnotes. Some are ironic: "Newly divorced, she had felt virginal again, years younger, truly childlike and American. Beginning again. Always beginning." Some are histrionic: "This is how a woman becomes...