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...external behaviors can be contagious - for instance, seeing another person shake his foot can cause you to shake yours, even if you don't realize you're doing so. Also, test subjects who mentally simulate a person stubbing his toe often grimace and even feel a bit of phantom pain. So do these same principles apply to the act of self-control...
...practical implication is that when Americans who are still fully employed really start to empathize with the pain of those who are struggling, they will feel weaker, and they will go out and start spending. Right now, fear may be overwhelming the empathy-glucose response. But at some point, the rich will give in and open their wallets again - not because they are especially greedy, but because they vicariously feel the pain of going without...
Sarah Wootton, chief executive of Dignity in Dying, believes that Nitschke has gone too far but says his behavior is a function of a system that fails to address the needs of people living in pain. "The answer is not DIY kits or books, but a fully safeguarded law that protects the vulnerable and gives terminally ill adults the choice of an assisted death. Regrettably, without such a law, activism like this is likely to continue...
...only from our ‘betters’” (the authors of the great books of literature), or Arnold Weinstein’s laughably reductive “the bookshelf is as basic a resource for body and mind, especially the body and the mind in pain, as the medicine shelf.” You tear down those scarecrows with good reason; no one in their right mind would stand up to defend the arguments as you present them. But to write that pleasure is the only reason to read literature? That there is, ultimately, no social...
...direction—targeting the source of problem. “There are treatments that are symptomatic, but not targeting the source,” Krainc said. “It’s like when you have a cavity, you take a pain killer, the pain will go away, but the cavity is still there.” The new study was ground-breaking partly because it has implication for the treatments of other neurodegenerative diseases, Krainc said. Krainc said that the accumulation of proteins is a “common theme” among all neurodegenerative diseases, including...