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...when I began to show symptoms of autism: not talking, repetitious behavior and tantrums. Not being able to communicate in words was a great frustration, so I screamed. Loud, high-pitched noises hurt my ears like a dentist's drill hitting a nerve. I would shut out the hurtful stimuli by rocking or staring at sand dribbling through my fingers...
...molesters were molested as children, the numbers are pretty muddy. Therapists who work with abusers report that anywhere from a third to three-quarters of their patients claim to have been victims of molestation--imprecise figures made even more so by the molesters' incentive to shade the truth. "Certain stimuli early in life seem to fuse the ideas of childhood and sexual arousal," says Fran Ferder, a psychologist and Catholic nun who teaches theology and psychology at Seattle University. The early onset of the condition argues against the popular idea that priests who abuse kids are driven to the behavior...
...that different electrical pulses lead to different perceptions. One type of pulse might always produce a yellow image, for example, while another might always produce red. If this turns out to be the case, Veraart and his team intend to compile a lexicon of correspondences so that specific visual stimuli can be easily reproduced. Imagine public spaces seeded with a kind of invisible braille, live pixels embedded in doors, stairways and streetcorners that blind MIVIP users could employ to see important information about their immediate surroundings. Veraart and his colleagues are working to refine the technology so that the blind...
Applying both warm and scalding hot heating pads to the palms of eight male subjects and mapping their neural activity, researchers found that painful and pleasurable stimuli activate the same brain structures...
...current Treasury secretary, is still on the job. He was at the New York Stock Exchange the Monday after the attacks to ring the markets? reopening bell, and Wednesday it was O?Neill who met with business leaders in New York to discuss the possibility of business-targeted stimuli...