John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 Sarno gave primary credit to Freud for emphasizing the importance of the unconscious in all human behavior.
In order to learn more about incorporating TMS theory into my own practice, I visited Dr. Sarno at New York University in January 2002.1 sat in on forty-five-minute office visits with five of his new patients on each of two afternoons. I attended the two-hour lecture he presents on a weekly basis. On the second evening, I attended a small group follow-up session for those who were still having pain a month or so after attending a previous lecture. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 It means that the stomach is a major player in human behavior and metabolic rate, and that the brain must coordinate the stomach's input in order to have a harmonious situation.
This science reinforces the fact that solving stress eating is minimally a psychological issue and primarily an issue of achieving natural balance so that subconscious signals get along with each other. People can endlessly look for the reasons for overeating and beat themselves up for having such feeble willpower, when in fact this path of looking for solutions is likely to have minimal value. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 That's part of the reason why the possible effects in humans seem so much subtler than the effect in rodents—the manipulation is designed to get rodents to be eaten by cats, because that's where T. gondii's primary life cycle occurs. The infection of humans and other animals is more or less gravy for the parasite. The chemicals T. gondii evolved in order to affect the behavior of rodents may also have an effect on our brains. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Chronic and degenerative diseases, as well as life-threatening, self-destructive behaviors are primarily found only in humans or animals affected by human behavior. Humans at this point in history are the only life form on Earth that tries to work against the laws and wisdom of Nature. In India, this is called prajna pratihara, or crimes against wisdom. Because humans lack the wisdom to live a healthy lifestyle, they accelerate the entropy in the form of degenerative diseases. |
Kelly Patricia O'Meara
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 More to the point, it would seem logical to assume that everyone involved in the approval process of Prozac was aware that the then-new class of antidepressants are serious psychiatric drugs intended to disrupt the balance of the naturally occurring chemicals in the brain and subsequently alter human behavior.
That there are serious adverse reactions associated with the use of Prozac no longer is in question and, certainly, not to the doctors who early on reported the adverse effects to Eli Lilly. |
Mike Adams
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 Disease mongering is the practice of medicalizing every possible human behavior or physiological function that can be identified. From fear of public speaking to pregnancy, almost every human mood, emotion, condition, or behavior is now considered a disease of one kind or another.
The sole purpose of disease mongering, of course, is to sell more high-profit prescription drugs. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Primitive understanding keeps human behavior and customs under the laws of accident, relative disease, sickness, unhappiness, and confusion. Advancing consciousness will allow humans to escape the laws of accident, to live according to the laws of consciousness, health, happiness, progression. This book brings knowledge of the key biochemic standard for elemental Immunity which precedes pathology and disease. |
Alex Steffen
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 In depictions of cities from a thousand years ago, we can recognize the same social patterns we know today, the same economic structures sustaining so many people residing in one place. human behavior does change very quickly. In a number of different ways, though, the cities we live in today are entirely new creations. Their size, the speed at which they change, the disparity between their richest and poorest residents, the global interconnection they give rise to, and the varieties of cultures they host— these are all unique to the twenty-first century. |
Jay Joseph
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 However, for Kendler's theory to hold, we must deny that these factors influence human behavior. We must believe that humans are hardwired at birth to behave in a predetermined way, uninfluenced by the social environment and by society's system of rewards and punishments.
When Kendler says that critics must demonstrate that twins' environments are "trait-relevant," what he is really saying is that everyone's environment is trait-irrelevant.
Let's look to the advertising industry to illustrate another example of this untenable position. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Mosher, MD, psychiatrist
• "Despite research that discredits genetic bases for human behavior, [the biological view] of mental illness has become solidly entrenched over the past several decades, not just within psychiatry and the medical profession, but within the general public as well."15
—Ellen M. Borges, PhD, sociologist
• "At the present time there is no proof that biology causes schizophrenia, bipolar mood disorder, or any other functional mental disorder."16
—Colin A. |
Jay Joseph
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| The unfortunate caricature of the environmentalist position as claiming that genes play no role in determining human behavior became the straw person set up by Steven Pinker in his 2002 book The Blank Slate, where he argued in favor of an important role for genetics in explaining psychological and behavioral differences among humans.2
1. Comings, 1997, p. 236.
2. Pinker, 2002. For a critical review of Pinker's book, see Menand, 2002. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 Trying to explain the nature of anything not human by relating it to human behavior is called anthropomorphism. "True" scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work.
However, I believed though that I was breaking out of orthodoxy for a good reason. Biologists try to gain scientific understanding by observing nature and conjuring up a hypothesis of how things work. Then they design experiments to test their ideas. |
| Those two mechanisms provide a way for scientists to study both the contribution of nature (genes) and the contribution of nurture (epigenetic mechanisms) in human behavior. If you only focus on the blueprints, as scientists have been doing for decades, the influence of the environment is impossible to fathom. [Dennis 2003; Chakravarti and Little 2003]
Let's present an analogy, which hopefully will make the relationship between epigenetic and genetic mechanisms clearer. Are you old enough to remember the days when television programming stopped after midnight? |
Jay Joseph
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| For example, what is a law if not a means of controlling human behavior through a system of rewards and punishment? Whether or not you break a particular law, such as speeding on an open highway or stealing an MP3 player, is at least partly influenced by whether you think it is worth the chance of receiving an expensive traffic ticket or being arrested for shoplifting. And what about income tax? Do people file honest returns solely because of moral virtue or patriotism, or do they also fear an audit and possible punishment if they don't? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If we don't hold these industries accountable for the destruction they have unleashed upon our population, they’re going to keep inventing new diseases until they have attached a disease name to every human behavior imaginable. Do you go to sleep at night? That's a brain disorder. Are you a woman and have monthly menstrual cycles? It's a terrible disease and you need drugs to cover that up. Do you ever get nervous when speaking in public? That's a disease as well and you obviously need your brain chemistry modified. |
Doris J. Rapp, M.D.
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 Animal and human studies suggest organochlorides, PCBs, dioxin, organophosphates, pyrethroids, solvents (toluene, benzene, xylene, styrene), alcohol, tobacco and fluorides all can have adverse effects on human behavior, learning and development, as well as possibly contributing to other types of illnesses, including cancer. |
Donald Ryan
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 It attempts to reconstruct and explain past human behavior primarily by the careful analysis of surviving material remains.
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Lost and Found
In 1972, archaeologist William Rathje of the University of Arizona initiated the Garbage Project. Using trash cans and landfills for data, the Project has excavated and sorted through tons of refuse in an attempt to arrbs/e at conclusions about modern human behavior, especially product consumption. |
Gary Null
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| So this multibillion-dollar industry of advertising has been built on the precept that clever repetition of thoughts can manipulate human behavior for profit. And to put it simply: It works like a charm! In addition to this power of words and images, we have a store of impressions from throughout our lives that impact every move and breath we take. Even our physical postures are often imitations of examples that surround us. You might think: What's wrong with the way I breathe or the way I stand? |
Healing Children's Attention & Behavior DisordersDr. Abram Hoffer, M.D., FRCP(C)
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| Newbold called The Psychiatric Programming of People that the computer was modeled on human behavior and thus could be used to describe behavioral problems. Animal behavior had millions of years to evolve and adapt to the environment; it makes good sense to take advantage of this long experiment of nature in developing something like the computer which increases our capabilities. As I noted in my review of this book, a model is a device for examining and clarifying phenomena. Thus a model of an airplane in a wind tunnel helps the engineer design a real plane which flies better. |
Thomas J. Moore
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 We know that chemicals influence human behavior. With high blood levels of alcohol, some people will commit acts too horrible to contemplate when cold sober. Policemen and emergency medical workers have coped with people so crazed on amphetamines, crack cocaine, or hallucinogens that it is hard to describe such behavior as rational or even "human." The growing array of chemicals that influence human behavior clashes directly with long-standing doctrines woven deeply into the fabric of society. Our moral and legal tradition depends on the central idea that we each are responsible for our acts. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, who is an expert on the effects of toxic metals on human behavior. According to Dr. Masters, "Communities with a higher percentage of children having blood lead over 10 mg/dL [milligrams per deciliter] are significantly more likely to have higher rates of violent crime and higher rates of educational failure ... High lead intake is often a factor among children who are hyperactive (ADHD). |
Robert Anton Wilson
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 Jan Huizinga, a Dutch sociologist, studied the game element in human behavior, and noted that we live by game rules which often have never risen to the level of conscious speech. In other words, we not only interpret data as we receive it; we also, quickly and unconsciously, "fit" the data to pre-existing axioms, or game-rules, of our culture (or our sub-culture).
For instance:
A cop clubs a man on the street. Observer A sees Law and Order performing their necessary function of restraining the violent with counter-violence. |
Leo Galland
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 Even the dreaded Ebola virus owes its lethal potency to human behavior. In the four known African Ebola epidemics, the fatality rate was close to 90 percent, making Ebola appear more formidable than any other infectious agent ever encountered. The disease would strike suddenly, with fever and malaise, like a bad case of the flu. Pain in the chest and abdomen, skin rash, diarrhea, and severe prostration would soon follow. Those few destined to survive would begin a slow recovery after one week of agonizing pain. |
The Search for Other WorldsFred Alan Wolf
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| Psychology: Consciousness and Machine Intelligence
Psychology deals with human consciousness and with problems associated with human behavior and the nature of observation. The parallel universe hypothesis enriches the field of psychology. For example, it may help us to understand major disorders, now appearing rampant in our society, such as multiple personality and schizophrenia. I will show how parallel universe theory explains some of the problems dealing with these syndromes.
Psychology also deals with machine intelligence. |
Valerie V. Hunt
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 I believe that in this, the last years of the 20th century, the truly monumental discoveries about human behavior will be information about the emotions associated with the profoundly mystical qualities of the human psyche, the soul. And, I believe that we will realize finally that the origin of all emotional problems is embedded in mystical experiences. To probe these sources, one must personally tap into awarenesses of the non-rational nature of human beings. |
Jean Antonello
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 We have truly been barking up the wrong tree in this important field of human behavior, with extremely serious consequences to both mental and physical health for millions of us.
Complete with plenty of diet advertisements, and occasionally an ad for an eating disorders treatment facility, popular women's magazines rarely fail to highlight a weight-loss method on the cover or tell some celebrity's story of weight loss, weight gain or eating disorder. These topics ensure sales because editors know what women are obsessed with. |
Richard Leviton
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 Gauquelin, Michel, Cosmic Influences on human behavior, Aurora Press, Santa Fe, 1985.
—How Cosmic and Atmospheric Energies Influence Your Health, Aurora Press, NewYork, 1984.
—The Cosmic Clocks: From Astrology to a Modern Science, Paladin/Granada, St. Albans, 1973.
Gilben, Susan, "TV Towers Breed Hot Spots," Science Digest, (November 1984).
Giovanelli, Ronald G., Secrets of the Sun, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984.
Gleick, James, Chaos—Making a New Science, Viking, NewYork, 1987.
Graves, Tom, Needles of Stone Revisited, Gothic Image Publications, Glastonbury, 1986. |
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
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 Alan Hirsch, has made a career of studying the effects of smells on human behavior and emotions. He explains the link this way, "Of all the human senses, the olfactory sense (of smell) has the greatest impact on the emotions because the olfactory sensory apparatus is intertwined with the limbic system—the part of the brain associated with emotions." Among Hirsch's findings:
ž The smell of vanilla makes people feel happier and more relaxed.
ž Citrus aromas are stimulating.
ž The smell of green apple, peppermint, and banana led to reduced appetite and weight loss in his patients. |
J.D. Kleinke
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 The long view of history frequently allows us a good laugh at the naivete of earlier generations, embodied in so many attempts over the years to legislate away normal human behavior.) If our shipyard operates in a corporate-practice-of-medicine state, then it cannot directly employ the doctor downstairs but it can enter into an exclusive business contract that carries few of the advantages and most of the drawbacks of direct employment. |
Donald Ryan
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| Using trash cans and landfills for data, the Project has excavated and sorted through tons of refuse in an attempt to arrbs/e at conclusions about modern human behavior, especially product consumption.
In the United States, archaeology is usually considered a sub-discipline of anthropology, a field which also includes cultural anthropology, physical anthropology, and linguistics. (In other countries, archaeology is often viewed as a subject all its own.) Unlike cultural anthropology, which studies living people, archaeology deals with the people of the past. |
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