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...brain can change as a result of the thoughts we think, as with Pascual-Leone's virtual piano players. This has important implications for health: something as seemingly insubstantial as a thought can affect the very stuff of the brain, altering neuronal connections in a way that can treat mental illness or, perhaps, lead to a greater capacity for empathy and compassion. It may even dial up the supposedly immovable happiness set point...
...same is true when cognitive techniques are used to treat depression. Scientists at the University of Toronto had 14 depressed adults undergo CBT, which teaches patients to view their own thoughts differently--to see a failed date, for instance, not as proof that "I will never be loved" but as a minor thing that didn't work out. Thirteen other patients received paroxetine (the generic form of the antidepressant Paxil). All experienced comparable improvement after treatment. Then the scientists scanned the patients' brains. "Our hypothesis was, if you do well with treatment, your brain will have changed in the same...
...that's hardly surprising. Even without anything approaching a complete understanding of the complexities of the human brain, neurologists and psychopharmacologists have come up with dozens of medications to treat schizophrenia, depression and other disorders. The next batch of psychoactive drugs could provide ammunition against the even more mysterious disorders of memory...
...treat drug distribution as a serious crime,” he wrote. “When officers are confronted with drug dealing they use their discretion, based on the totality of the circumstances, on the most appropriate charges. Once arraigned, the courts...decide how the case will proceed...
...Charles Reis, the U.S. ambassador, said the embassy neither suspected nor had been warned of a pending attack. "We can't speculate who's behind this," Reis told reporters. "Still, [we] treat it as a very serious attack. There can be no justification for such a senseless act of violence...