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...find the off switch. Behavioral scientists take the opposite approach. They want you to get so accustomed to the noise that you don't hear it anymore. The standard behavioral treatment for such anxiety conditions as phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder is to expose patients to a tiny bit of the very thing that causes them anxiety, ratcheting up the exposure over a number of sessions until the brain habituates to the fear. A patient suffering from a blood phobia, for example, might first be shown a picture of a scalpel or syringe, then a real syringe...
...meantime, Kurzweil juggles several lucrative projects under the banner Kurzweil Technologies, descendants of his original work in pattern-recognition programs, which simulate human cognition: Medical Learning Co. provides doctors with broad health-care information and a "virtual patient" educational tool. At FatKat, Kurzweil runs both simulated trades and an actual experimental investment fund that uses pattern-recognition software to spot trends in financial markets; a hedge fund is in the works...
Unlike in Northern Ireland, however, Mitchell was unable to kickstart a faltering peace process. In spite of using the same techniques he brought to bear in Northern Ireland—as he explained, “being patient and persevering, always understanding the motivation of all the participants”—Mitchell could not persuade both sides to come back to the negotiating table...
...doctor must take a patient’s disease and explain it and its consequences to the patient in terms he or she can understand, Federman says...
...strong presence in students’ lives, from orientation, through a required first-year course in genetics, embryology and reproduction, to students’ first experience with a patient...