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Ten years after the voices first came, I graduated in psychology with the highest classification score the university had
Eleanor Longden • Learning from the Voices in My Head (TED Books)
What if changing the way we live—in specific, targeted, evidence-based ways—could be seen as an antidepressant, too?
Johann Hari • Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
The reason I didn’t start smoking despite my desire was that I knew the delicious escape it would afford me would come at a cost. The things about my life that I’d come to enjoy—my intellectual work, family, and other ambitions and hobbies—would grow pale in comparison to sitting around smoking a bowl.
Judith Grisel • Never Enough
The Other Brain: From Dementia to Schizophrenia, How New Discoveries about the Brain Are Revolutionizing Medicine and Science
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The tenacity of addiction is as evident to researchers and clinicians as it is to addicts. I’ve been clean for more than thirty years, and I’m still not really interested in moderation. Often people ask whether I don’t wish I might have a glass of wine or a hit off a joint, but I don’t want just one glass or a light buzz; I want the whole bottle,
... See moreJudith Grisel • Never Enough
