(Np) scientific Freud

[rich]

wish the novel was about the nun. she was the most interesting. the boring
professor fucking the smart upcoming student, well not so interesting. his
wacked wife even her was better to focus on. oh well. snippets of stone's
brilliance amidst what i think is a rather slight novel. not that i expect
another a flag for sunrise.


On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for this Michael,
>
> Robert Stone's latest, Death of a Dark-Haired Woman has a wonderfully
> unexpected and subtle use of this "truth".
>
>
>   On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 3:00 PM, Michael Bailey <
> mikebailey at gmx.us> wrote:
>
> http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/health_and_science/freud-s-hysteria-theory-backed-by-patients-brain-scans/article_df9c7197-3ee5-53d4-a34c-1e736deb6d7a.html
>
> MELBOURNE, Australia -- Sigmund Freud may have been right about repressed
> memories causing hysteria.
> Scientists at King's College London and the University of Melbourne have
> found, using brain scans, that psychological stress may be to blame for
> unexplained physical symptoms, including paralysis and seizures.
> Patients showed differences in brain activity when they recalled traumatic
> memories compared with healthy volunteers in a study published in last
> month's edition of JAMA Psychiatry. Besides supporting Freud's theory and
> helping to explain one of the most common complaints seen by neurologists,
> the research may lead to new treatment approaches for patients whose
> symptoms were often written off by doctors in the past.
> "This is the first paper that I'm aware of that really shows that previous
> traumatic events can definitely trigger this kind of motor response," said
> John Speed, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the
> University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who wasn't involved in the research.
> "It's very exciting."
> The research is among the latest to demonstrate how brain- scanning
> devices made by companies such as Siemens, General Electric and Philips are
> being used to help unravel neuropsychiatric symptoms that used to baffle
> doctors.
> The scientists used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to
> trace changes in blood flow to particular areas of the brain while
> participants were probed about their past, yielding both anatomical and
> functional views of their brains.
> "I hope in a decade or so that we will be able to use functional MRI as a
> diagnostic tool," Speed said in a telephone interview....
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
>
>
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