Word: manic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brain, called the subgenual prefrontal cortex, plays an important role in the control of emotions. But Drevets, who has since moved to the University of Pittsburgh, discovered that it could also be the trigger point for both bouts of paralyzing sadness and the wildly euphoric highs of manic depression. "This area of the brain may act as a set of brakes for emotional responses," he explains. "When it does not function properly, abnormal swings in mood may occur...
NATURE OF DENOUEMENT Nasty. She got a restraining order, claiming he hit her and was a manic depressive...
...practices ignores the overriding desire of many of those people to escape from the grinding poverty of subsistence farming. Greider also slips when he tries to blame multinational corporations and international financiers--the favorite punching bags of populists--for the very events the book's subtitle ascribes to "the manic logic of global capitalism...
Clark ended our chat with a friendly smile and twinkling eye. He picked up the Starbucks coffee cup from the table--"Coffee is very important in writing; you have to reach a manic state...
Seeing the 20th-anniversary edition of Star Wars brought a wave of mixed feelings. I sat in a theater surrounded by an audience, the vast majority of whom were not even born when I first saw the film in 1977. I thought the scenes dragged in comparison to the manic action of today's sci-fi extravaganzas. I realized that not a single adult in the theater felt the way he did when he saw the movie for the first time. Not a single preteen managed to make it through without suppressing some yawns. The story of the good guys...