Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seek them out. One of their first cases was an 18-year-old boy with cancer. Suddenly, the boy's pain had spun out of control. "In three days he went from no morphine to 400 milligrams an hour, which is a pretty industrial dose," says Berde. "A normal amount might be 3 milligrams an hour...
...serotonin trail led scientists down a number of other interesting paths as well. One involved LSD: clinicians discovered that people on MAO inhibitors were much less sensitive to the drug than normal. The consensus is that LSD mimics serotonin in the brain and latches onto the same neuronal receptors. With MAO inhibitors keeping more serotonin in circulation, the acid cannot elbow...
...other serotonin enhancers, such as Prozac, have never caused heart problems. There is a crucial difference, however, between Prozac and Redux-fenfluramine. The former, like the other SSRIS, keeps serotonin in circulation longer than it would otherwise be, thus helping the brain get the most out of its normal output. The latter do the same, but they also force nerve cells to boost the levels of serotonin that go into circulation. It is this unnatural bath of excess serotonin, some scientists theorize, that causes heart-valve defects and also triggers brain damage--in monkeys, at the very least--by overdosing...
...project themselves to be, rather than in what they are, even when the two images, the sham and the real, are obviously in conflict. The case of the Princess of Wales may open our eyes. But the fault did not lie with Diana. She was just a normal, healthy young woman, with human desires and all too human failings. The fault lies with our society, which put her on a pedestal that was utterly undeserved. BHUPINDER SINGH Muscat, Oman...
...heavily guarded second-floor room at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital. Although he recalls the final moments before leaving the Ritz and getting into the car, Rees-Jones, 29, remembers nothing about the accident itself. He did tell the judge that driver HENRI PAUL seemed to be in a perfectly normal state before taking the wheel, though blood tests showed he was legally drunk. But when asked for details about the moments leading up to the accident itself, Rees-Jones repeatedly answered, "I don't remember." After some 20 minutes, questioning ended...