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Psychiatric meds & malleable morality + 'Superfruit' improves memory - C C - Mar 16, 2016
Your Inner Angel and Devil Can Be Influenced by Psychiatric Meds
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-inner-angel-and-devil-can-be-influenced-by-psychiatric-meds/
EXCERPT: By tweaking brain chemistry, a number of common drugs can alter moral decision-making...
This ‘Superfruit’ Improves Memory and Cognitive Function
http://www.spring.org.uk/2016/03/super-fruit-improves-memory.php
EXCERPT: Eating blueberries could help improve memory and cognitive function, a new study finds. Researchers recruited 47 older adults with mild cognitive impairment. Some of them had the equivalent of a cup of blueberries in powder form each day for 16 weeks. Others had a placebo powder....
RE: Psychiatric meds & malleable morality + 'Superfruit' improves memory - Magical Realist - Mar 18, 2016
"And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."===Brave New World