Kim Giho, who founded The Beautiful Life seminar in South Korea, believes that that only by dying can some people find their desire to live.
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Category: Neuropsychiatric Disease
What’s Happening to the Scientific Method?
All sorts of well-established, repeatedly-confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain in a wide range of scientific fields, from psychology to ecology. This phenomenon is particularly widespread in the field of medicine.
To read more about this, click on this article by Jonathan Lehrer in the The New Yorker:
Mental Illness and the Sun
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It’s been known for a long time that winter-born babies are more likely to develop severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, depression and seasonal affective disorder. Researchers at Vanderbilt and the University of Alabama may have identified clues as to how seasonal sunlight exposure could affect expression of clock genes that control our normal biological rhythms.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=blame-it-on-winter
The Placebo Response
Originally discovered by an Allied forces Army nurse in WWII, the placebo response continues to mystify physicians, researchers, and pharmaceutical companies alike. Our body’s physiological response to medicine is largely impacted by our interpretation of social cues, anticipation of reward, and our beliefs and expectations. This complex constellation of factors in the mind can yield significant clinical improvement in patients taking nothing more than inert sugar pills. As Steve Silberman describes, “The placebo response doesn’t care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That’s potent medicine.” Interestingly, it also works the other way – the ‘Nocebo Response.’
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all
Fake Bus Stop
Pioneered at the Benrath Senior Centre in Düsseldorf, some treatment centers are now encouraging Alzheimer’s sufferers to wait at a fake bus stop as part of pioneering treatment for the disease.
http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/mar/23/the-bus-stop/
http://www.fastcompany.com/1598472/uncommon-act-of-design-fake-bus-stop-helps-alzheimers-patients
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