Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 But that's not the only way disease affects human behavior, of course—there are thousands of ways in which personal, cultural, and social standards have evolved in order to help us avoid or manage disease. Some behavior is instinctual, like the sense of disgust at certain sights and smells, which prompts us to avoid animal waste or spoiled food—things that are usually ripe with infectious material. Others are learned behavior and social pressure—covering your nose and mouth when you sneeze is a good example. Washing your hands before a meal is another. |
Joseph Campbell
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—which pretend to describe the lives of the legendary heroes, the powers of the divinities of nature, the spirits of the dead, and the totem ancestors of the group—symbolic expression is given to the unconscious desires, fears, and tensions that underlie the conscious patterns of human behavior. Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography; history, and cosmology. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 There were many different "schools" of psychotherapy, each applying its own principles to understand and change human behavior: the Freudians, the Jungians, the Adleri-ans, and many more. Members of each group adamantly defended their approaches and argued that their treatments must be working because their patients kept coming back for more sessions. It was not until the late 1970s that studies found that the particular school or philosophy was nowhere near as important as the relation between therapist and patient. |
Alex Steffen
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 The twentieth century was putrid with dictators, strongmen, criminal bosses, and tribal leaders who went far beyond any norms of human behavior—even human behavior during times of war—in ordering the grossest atrocities.
How do we stop the tyrants? Certainly, the global community needs to be more responsive.
Peacekeeping after trouble has broken out is noble, but proactive and early intervention (entirely possible in military terms) would save millions from blighted futures and death.
There is, however, a tool other than military intervention: universal jurisdiction. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Amen, who is a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California-Irvine School of Medicine, and the author of more than nineteen books, says that ginkgo "enhances circulation, memory, and concentration."
The most studied form of ginkgo biloba is an extract called EGB 761. Try to find a brand that has been standardized for that extract. (One such brand in the United States is Ginkgold by Nature's Way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is normal human behavior, folks. Sometimes you feel like you have 12 projects going and you can't concentrate on any one of them. That's not attention deficit disorder; that's normal human behavior. In fact, it's how children learn. They don't focus on one thing; they do multiple things at once.
My message to those of you out who might be taking prescription drugs in the desperate effort to create this perfect, comfortable daily existence is this: Your expectations are way off base. There is no perfect human experience, not even in those who you might think are in perfect health. |
David Steinman
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 First, they clearly implicated hormonally active contaminants in disruption of the development of gender-specific human behavior, even if they fell short of establishing causality, she said. Second, the affected behaviors, sex-specific childhood play, have been linked speculatively to later patterns in adult sexual choice. While highly controversial, some research suggests that "childhood gender nonconformity (e.g., play behavior typical for opposite sex) is a predictor of same-sex sexual choice in adulthood," said the study authors. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 All this is headed to an obvious conclusion: every quirky or uncomfortable human behavior will soon be labeled a disease, and a medication will be quickly be dispensed to deal with that "disease." Of course, it may take the drug industry years to invent all these diseases, but you can bet they have teams of scientists working on that effort right now.
But why wait? I decided to pitch in and help the drug companies by listing quirky human behaviors that deserve to be called diseases right now! |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| A few evolutionary psychiatrists (scientists who study human behavior in the context of evolution and look to see whether specific behavior conferred an evolutionary advantage) have even suggested that humankind's instinctual fear of strangers may have its roots in disease avoidance. The theory is rooted in the notion that in humans two of our basic biological imperatives—survival and reproduction—have fostered in us a core social concern for the health and safety of our children and close relatives. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Large fluctuations in solar activity cause other subtle effects in human behavior and performance—for instance, the ability to perform a skilled task.25 Psychologist Dean Radin once examined the effect of GMFs on bowling. He tracked the performance of experienced bowlers over a number of periods, and then compared their scores with the geomagnetic activity of the same period. |
Charles Barber
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 Will we continue our reckless ingesting of drugs, our simplistic explanations of human behavior?
Or will we, with an open mind, heed the lessons from a century of research on psychotherapy and motivation and what enhances people's prospects for change? Will we accept that illness and suffering are part of humanity, and that understanding that only helps us to overcome that suffering? Will we comprehend that change comes slowly and through hard work?
Will we accept, in humility, that the ills of this world have a tantalizing way of eluding simple explanation? |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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 We don't have to invent intellectual theories about human behavior; we have to discover natural law. That should make our job easier, once we leave the intellectual behind. It is difficult to know what is real about humans if we take words alone as a sign of reality.
When an animal hears the distress signal of an offspring, the right springs into action. Many mothers report experiencing tightness in their nipples or a flow of breast milk when they hear any infant cry. The very early pain we undergo in the womb is going to be registered largely on the right. |
| The Outside Dictates the Inside _
From the moment of conception, the driving force in human behavior is to minimize pain and maximize comfort. To that end we have an elaborate painkilling system mediated by neurotransmitters that enter into the synapses between neurons to block the transmission of the message of suffering to higher centers. Our ability to feel comfortable depends on optimum levels of the inhibitory neurotransmitter serotonin, and of the endorphins, an internally produced morphine of the brain and body. Early love normalizes these levels. |
Charles Barber
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| Each successive edition of the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) has proclaimed an ever-increasing number of diagnoses that cover an ever-widening terrain of normal, if painful, human behavior. DSM-I, which was published in 1952 and heavily influenced by William Menninger's taxonomy of disorders produced during World War II, covered sixty-two diagnoses. DSM-IV, which came out in 1994, had over three hundred. (On the shelf, DSM-I is a little pamphlet, while DSM-IV is a thick reference volume weighing in at about three pounds. |
Dawson Church
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 Niles Eldredge, in his book Why We Do It, says, "genes have been the dominant metaphor underlying explanations of all manner of human behavior, from the most basic and animalistic, like sex, up to and including such esoterica as the practice of religion, the enjoyment of music, and the codification of laws and moral strictures.... The media are besotted with genes...genes have for over half a century easily eclipsed the outside natural world as the primary driving force of evolution in the minds of many evolutionary biologists. |
Charles Barber
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| The fact that we can see anything in the brain has been revolutionary and explosive in its implications, but now that the public thinks we can see neurons, seemingly overnight, every aspect of human behavior, from the most trivial to the most profound, has acquired a neurological basis. It's a new neuro world we're living in. It helps no end that the term neuro seems to be able to attach itself to just about everything: neurobiology, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, neurophiloso-phy, neuroeconomics, neuromarketing, neuroethics, neurodiversity. Neurodiversity? Indeed. |
Dr. Arthur Janov
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| Therefore, they tend to be superimposed on human behavior rather than evolving out of it. This is not a minor quibble; it is of the essence. Whenever the patient is being "done to," there is little chance of feeling.
The same cesarean imprint can, depending on later experience, turn into something quite different. There is no universal application of one trauma that will fit everyone. One cesarean birth patient never seemed worried about anything. She had a false sense of security that "something was going to happen to solve the problem for her. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Kramer, MD, clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior, Brown University, Providence, RI, and author of Listening to Prozac (Penguin) and Against Depression (Viking).
Depression is one of the most misunderstood health problems. Some people still stigmatize it as a "character flaw."
Others romanticize it, claiming that it lends creativity, sensitivity—even wisdom.
However: Few people are aware that depression actually fuels the development of other serious medical conditions. |
Jay Joseph
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 The position that social and cultural influences do influence human behavior is so obvious that I will refrain from burdening myself and readers with a discussion of research supporting it. It's far simpler to cite some concrete examples that don't even address the importance of family (psychodynamic)
1. King et al., 2002a, p. 12. rearing environment, since there are untold behavior-modifying influences in modern society. For example, what is a law if not a means of controlling human behavior through a system of rewards and punishment? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As long as society continues to give psychiatrists carte blanche to invent fictitious diseases, there is no human behavior, emotion or condition that's safe from being labeled a pathology. So-called "adult ADHD screening tests" label a whopping 80 percent of participants with the disease. Behavioral disorders screenings for children demonstrate similar numbers. And the things that can get you labeled as "diseased" are all too mundane: Feeling overwhelmed, feeling distracted by modern life, handling too many projects as once, being afraid of public speaking, feeling shy in social situations... |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the quickest way to do that is through disease mongering -- inventing, then marketing non-existent diseases to a gullible population that has grown far too comfortable with the idea that every human behavior is now a disease.
This is how we get Road Rage Disorder, Restless Legs Syndrome (an extremely rare condition that drug companies are now trying to push onto half the population) and even the idea that menstruation is now a "disorder" that can be treated with drugs to stop a woman's natural cycles from being expressed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The way to do that is to expand the number of diseases that exist by attaching a pathological definition to every normal human behavior imaginable. Someday, daydreaming will probably be called a disease. Every undesirable moment of daily life will be called a disease. Have a fear of heights? Well, that could be a disease. Have trouble swimming? They could call that a disease, too. Does your skin attract mosquitoes? Well, certainly you should be taking a pharmaceutical that distributes a poison throughout your entire body and wards off mosquitoes. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Consider the following comments coming from just one page of one textbook:
The biological perspective helps explain why we learn some fears more readily and why some individuals are more vulnerable. human behavior was road tested in the Stone Age. We humans, therefore, seem biologically prepared to fear threats faced by our ancestors, and most of our phobias focus on such objects: spiders, snakes, closed places, heights, storms. (Those fearless about these occasional threats were less likely to survive and leave descendants. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 For one thing, flu can kill in a few days after infection and it does not rely on any particular form of human behavior to spread. An epidemic requires only large cosmopolitan populations to take off. The flu virus originated in wild aquatic birds, has spread and mutated in domestic fowl, and tends to jump species upward, first to domestic swine, which serve as transfer breeding stations for the virus, and then to humans. Pigs seem to act like living laboratories where bird and mammal viruses can get together and share RNA segments to create new strains of flu virus. |
Jay Joseph
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| However, it is not true, as Comings implies, that environmentalist critics argue that genes play no role in determining human behavior. That would be ridiculous, as genes obviously determine whether an organism becomes ?and behaves like ?a human, an alligator, a snapping turtle, an earthworm, a buffalo, a sea anemone, and so on. Obviously, humans are hardwired with some species-specific traits and instincts, or potentials for manifesting species-specific traits. The fact that I am expressing human language in the form of this book is proof enough of this. |
David Wolfe
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 Even though human behavior has been more like scavengers eating everything in sight, we appeared on this planet as raw eaters with a specific food design. We are not designed to eat large amounts of raw (or cooked) animal foods and that is why these diets can be inappropriate.
Does biting into a raw fish with its slime, scales and watching eye sound appetizing? Of course not. Does eating bugs out of a garden sound enticing? It would not be a first choice. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That's not attention deficit disorder; that's normal human behavior. In fact, it's how children learn. They don't focus on one thing; they do multiple things at once.
My message to those of you out who might be taking prescription drugs in the desperate effort to create this perfect, comfortable daily existence is this: Your expectations are way off base. There is no perfect human experience, not even in those who you might think are in perfect health. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Similarly, some doctors think human behavior is fully accounted for by nothing more than varying levels of neurotransmitters. And get this -- some artificial intelligence geeks think human beings are nothing more than complex computers (Turing machines). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The bottom line is that the impulse to steal from others for your own personal gain is, sadly, hardwired into human behavior. If you think back to our ancestors, it was to their advantage to steal food and resources from others, because if they could steal food then they wouldn't have to expend the calorie investment required to get their own food. Stealing and exploiting others is, technically, a survival strategy. As such, it's part of human nature today. |
James Howard Kunstler
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| This is a very common human behavior in the face of social stress and it could get very ugly, resulting in the persecution or killing of people. It could be undertaken in a political climate of anarchy or under government sponsorship, though I reiterate my point that the post-peak oil predicament is liable to render big government dysfunctional and impotent. I would be more concerned about what might happen on the local and regional levels, and I will discuss that later. Military aggression against other nations is another probability, essentially resource wars, and these are already under way. |
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