Psychiatric meds & malleable morality + 'Superfruit' improves memory

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Your Inner Angel and Devil Can Be Influenced by Psychiatric Meds
http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...tric-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-f...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....
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"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
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