Word: schizophrenias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most obvious explanation for governmental "grid lock," to use a recently coined term, is a sort of voter schizophrenia--the propensity to vote for local and national candidates with completely different views of the nation. This phenomenon is evident from the fact that Democratic Congresses have sat alongside Republican presidents for the last 12 years. Moreover, states that voted overwhelmingly for a Democratic President, like Massachusetts and Connecticut, elected and re-elected Republican congresspeople...
Nevertheless, one could propose that voter schizophrenia has temporarily subsided with the election of a Democratic president. In fact, Clinton garnered a percentage of electoral votes roughly proportional to the Democrats' holdings in Congress. Were it not for Ross Perot's fairly strong showing. Clinton's gains in the popular vote might also have reflected this distribution...
...case, a simple solution to the "voter schizophrenia" problem is to equip all voting booths with two levers--Republican and Democrat--that would register votes for all the candidates of the respective parties. Although President Bush showed us that desperate measures are always in order in an election year, such action might cheapen the electoral process...
Goliath's human commander felt a wave of sadness sweep over him as the final image from his lost past dissolved into a featureless, simmering mist of white noise. Too swift a transition from one reality to another was a good recipe for schizophrenia, and Captain Singh always eased the shock with the most soothing sound he knew: waves falling gently on a beach, with sea gulls crying in the distance. It was yet another memory of a life he had lost, and of a peaceful past that had now been replaced by a fearful present...
Many researchers think the hallucinations and delusions of schizophrenia reflect a physical deterioration of the victim's brain. Now comes a new study from Harvard that strengthens that theory. Magnetic-resonance imaging of 15 schizophrenic and 15 normal men shows that the former have less gray matter in the left temporal lobe, a region believed to be important to language processing. The degree of shrinkage matched the severity of thought disorder -- implying that while a cure for the disease is nowhere close, scientists may at least be zeroing in on the cause...