Gordon's Notes

Robert F Kennedy Jr showed up in a scrum of pro-measles whackos recently. It  me wonder how he got so nuts. There’s an extensive wikipedia...

"THIRTY years ago, I was given a diagnosis of schizophrenia." That's a helluva way to start one of the most important NYT O...

We tax cigarettes to offset some of the social costs of tobacco use. This is type of  Pigovian Tax . We could tax bullets to offset the dir...

Robert Ebert:   "Here is a record of mass shootings in the United States since 2005. It is 62 pages long ... The hell with it. I'm ...

Which famous scientists and/or mathematicians were also "crazy" (e.g. - far outside behavioral "norms") during their adu...

I read Charlie Stross's Rule 34 . Here's my 5 star Amazon review (slightly modified as I thought of a few more things): Rule 34 is...

Jared Loughner is a paranoid schizophrenic. Loughner a "textbook" case paranoid schizophrenic - Jared Loughner - Salon.com ... He&...

Victory: The war against 20th century psychiatric diagnoses is all but won . It's been a long time coming, this rebellion has roots goin...

Today's Carl Zimmer article gives new insight into the nature of consciousness. Even in neurotypical brains decision tasks create a psyc...

Even fifteen years ago cognitive science courses taught that the human mind was frozen in the Paleolithic Pleistocene . Humans didn’t evolve...

This research further confirms results first published in Science three months ago . The continued blurring of the diagnostic boundaries bet...

A year ago I coined the term "evolutionary disorders" for diseases arising from malfunctions of rapidly evolving organs -- like th...

I'm visiting family in Montreal, and the Globe and Mail came with the room today. I've read the G&M before. It's a duller ve...

Humans, to the eye, are not so diverse. The vast majority have, or once had, four limbs, two eyes, one head. Most rely heavily on vision. So...

A recent groundbreaking study on the genetics of schizophrenia found a varied pattern of large scale "sledgehammer" (as in whack t...

Some recent results for a study of the genetics of schizophrenia got a lot of press attention. Among other things, the studies are one more ...

Another NYT article on theories about why humans sleep: Sleep - Brain - Neurons - New York Times : ...So Dr. Tononi and a colleague, Chiara ...

I was thinking this morning, as I often do, of brain and mind , evolution , schizophrenia , and autism ( more autism related posts ), parti...

Schizophrenia is pretty darned common, and it's a terrible disorder with clear inherited roots. So why is it so common? Scientific Ameri...

I've been curious how long it would take the media to make the obvious connection between the Blacksburg disaster and schizophrenia. As ...