My life has seen fit to remind me recently that I am probably ADD. Most specifically in the sense that ADD (of the type I probably have) has genetic origins. Plus my boss has suggested I get evaluated for it by a professional.

After discussing this with scarlettina I took an ADD quiz she found. Results below. Are you surprised?



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I grok this.

It isn't that I expect happiness. I don't consider a state of happiness my god-given right as a human being and an American. I don't think happiness is a normal base state and consider any deviation from it a disfunction. Hell, I can remember few intervals longer than a day out my life that I would describe as 'happy ( Read more... )

Talk about counter-intuitive!

1. 'Heartache' isn't just a turn of phrase. It can literally ache. Enough to make one wonder if 'dying of heartbreak' isn't just a metaphor.
2. Grief is different than regular depression. Among other things it makes you even more forgetful and slow thinking.
   
3. Most people tend to give you some slack. This is a good thing. (See item '2'.)
4. Other people's ( Read more... )

We've all been there. That perfect moment that you want to last forever. Maybe it is a sunset and a lover watching it with you. Maybe it is a child's first steps, a box of puppies on a sunny day, or a steelhead taking the hook at your favorite fishing hole. Maybe it is hearing an old song in a new way at a rock concert. Maybe it is simply standing ( Read more... )

It's going to take me a while to digest this one...

James V. Stone of Sheffield University has a research article ponderously titled Distributed Representations Accelerate Evolution of Adaptive Behaviours. In it he describes something called (rather more prosaically) 'Free Lunch Learning':In humans, FLL has been demonstrated using a task in which ( Read more... )

Scientists may have isolated the part of the brain that makes us human (as opposed to just being hairless apes); the Amygdala appears to be related to the senses that govern social behavior:Semendeferi lead a group that measured area of the 12 amygdalas and low and behold found that the human amygdala was much larger than those of the other apes. ( Read more... )

Introverts prefer to be alone because they are more sensitive to social situations:Previous MRI studies have shown that during social situations, specific areas in the brains of loners experience especially lively blood flow, indicating a sort of overstimulation, which explains why they find parties so wearying.
Leading to the, unsurprising, ( Read more... )

Inducing slow waves to improve sleep.