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...what if antidepressants like Prozac were one day made completely free of side effects and served only to elevate mood? Would there be an objection to prescribing them for the entire nation? Every psychiatrist I spoke with still answered "probably." Some see SSRIs as a kind of mental shortcut that relieves patients of the need to work through their problems. Others fear that a nation on Prozac would miss the inherent value of struggle and strife. Dr. Kramer thinks there may be an intrinsic virtue in what he calls the "unmodified personality." Although this month the FDA approved Prozac...
...December 6, 1973, it was snowing, and I took a shortcut through the cornfield back from the junior high. It was dark out because the days were shorter in winter, and I remember how the broken cornstalks made my walk more difficult. The snow was falling lightly, like a flurry of small hands, and I was breathing through my nose until it was running so much that I had to open my mouth. Six feet from where Mr. Harvey stood, I stuck my tongue out to taste a snowflake...
...Harvey said it would only take a minute, so I followed him a little farther into the cornfield, where fewer stalks were broken off because no one used it as a shortcut to the junior high. My mom had told my baby brother, Buckley, that the corn in the field was inedible when he asked why no one from the neighborhood ate it. "The corn is for horses, not humans," she said. "Not dogs?" Buckley asked. "No," my mother answered. "Not dinosaurs?" Buckley asked. And it went like that...
...spiritual matters, as in economics, supply rises to meet demand. Into the country's leadership vacuum has stepped an eccentric mix of charismatic characters professing to have a hot line to God or a shortcut to enlightenment. According to religious scholars, there are some 2,000 "new religions" in Japan. They include Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, which urges the worship of feet, and Life Space, a group whose leader claims that he doesn't need to eat, bathe or sleep because of his superhuman powers. He is now serving a 15-year prison sentence for murdering a follower and keeping...
...SHORTCUT When startled, the brain automatically engages an emergency hot line to its fear center, the amygdala. Once activated, the amygdala sends the equivalent of an all-points bulletin that alerts other brain structures. The result is the classic fear response: sweaty palms, rapid heartbeat, increased blood pressure and a burst of adrenaline. All this happens before the mind is conscious of having smelled or touched anything. Before you know why you're afraid...