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“the term reward has no consistent meaning”
A very important point about dopamine (DA) and reward, from a recent review paper: “The DA hypothesis of reward is a ubiquitous feature of the scientific literature, as well as popular media, the internet, and film. Yet, despite the almost automatic tendency of some to explain virtually any aspect of DA function as somehow being…
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How reliable are psychiatric diagnoses?
This post, which mostly provides useful citations, was originally written as an answer to the following Quora question: Is ADHD one of the only psychiatric conditions that can be diagnosed objectively?
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The head and the heart
I was asked the following question on Quora some time ago: Why do people point/refer to their chest (heart) when they talk about the mind, when the head (brain) is the organ used for doing so? Here’s my answer: