Word: prozac
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...pushed around by physical manipulations. Electrical stimulation of the brain during surgery can cause a person to have hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality, such as a song playing in the room or a childhood birthday party. Chemicals that affect the brain, from caffeine and alcohol to Prozac and LSD, can profoundly alter how people think, feel and see. Surgery that severs the corpus callosum, separating the two hemispheres (a treatment for epilepsy), spawns two consciousnesses within the same skull, as if the soul could be cleaved in two with a knife...
Devices like DBS and psychoactive drugs like Ritalin and Prozac are already manipulating brain function in millions of people. And future pharmaceuticals, Farah says, targeting very specific parts of the brain, will be even more effective and will have fewer side effects. These new brain-control tools open a Pandora's box of ethical and philosophical dilemmas, including what kind of society--and what kinds of selves--we want...
...sitting in a coffee shop now where probably half the people have taken them." Some ethicists argue that unless you're ill, you're not really yourself when you're on these drugs. On the other hand, says Farah, we change our brain chemistry no more with Prozac than with coffee...
Jane says that flannel is the new Prozac. Get your Courtney Love on at the PfoHo 90’s dance, which promises angsty hard-rock, hemp necklaces, and drunk freshmen. The Blanks. are even spinning the tunes. Nirvana...
...institutions licensed the patent exclusively to Cambridge-based Ariad. The four parties filed suit against Eli Lilly on the same day the patent was awarded, according to Laurie A. Allen, senior vice president for legal and business development at Ariad. Eli Lilly, maker of the popular antidepressant Prozac, disputes the claims and asserts that the suit is without merit. “We believe Ariad’s patent is invalid, not infringed and unenforcable,” spokeswoman Terra Fox wrote in a statement. In a court brief, Eli Lilly argues that the institutions had patented...