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...spends much of her time at home in Melbourne reading up on psychiatry while working on a book about her ordeal. She's certain that what made her sick were side effects of the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). A pharmaceutical phenomenon that began with fluoxetine (Prozac) in the late 1980s, the SSRIs rode a wave of gushing publicity to usurp the older antidepressants, the tricyclics, and reap a fortune for their makers: worldwide sales now exceed $20 billion a year. But the honeymoon is over. Even doctors who swear by SSRIs...
...relentless pursuit of one physical treatment after another." Parker's experience is that, shortly after starting a course of SSRIs, about 7% of patients feel agitation ranging from moderate to profound, while an additional 1% or fewer show psychotic symptoms. "In my view a serotonergic reaction is a true phenomenon," he says, "and we need to be absolutely aware of it. But it doesn't stop me from prescribing." He starts his patients on low doses and warns them about what they might feel when they start taking the drugs (and that they might have symptoms when they...
DERY: ... but I feel that in discussions like this, there's a phenomenon where technopundits wear Global Business Network blinkers. The democratization of available avenues of possibility is always phrased in market-friendly terms. It's about purchasing power--the cornucopia of options available to those who can stuff their shopping carts and proceed to checkout. How many options were available to those who were marooned in New Orleans? The ragtag who are rotting in what used to be quaintly called the real world, somewhere off-line, are left behind...
...point is that there’s basically nothing you can do to change this social phenomenon. Inquiring about the content of their whispers has a low chance of securing you an answer. And pulling the girls apart from one another would probably be more scary than suave. And no matter what, approaching girls dancing is inherently awkward—even if smoothed over by alcohol consumption...
...which are far outside the visible light range—when they found something new. They discovered that ambient light from the surrounding stars was illuminating their cloud. Astronomers previously had observed “reflection nebulae,” which are illuminated by stars within the cloud. The phenomenon observed by Foster and Goodman, which they termed “cloudshine,” is unique because the light source emanates from outside the cloud. “While reflected starlight at optical wavelengths has been used to study dust in the galaxy, it’s impossible...