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Concerned about “the thousand intricate problems . . . which perplex those who struggle to-day in our teeming city hives,” the neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell wondered, “Have we lived too fast?” He published Wear and Tear; or, Hints for the Overworked not in 2021, but in 1871. Mitchell is one of the men responsible for diagnosing an epidemic of hys
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
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When I went through medical school and residency in the 1990s, I was taught that people with depression, anxiety, attention deficit, cognitive distortions, sleep problems, and so on have brains that don’t work the way they’re supposed to, just like people with diabetes have a pancreas that doesn’t secrete enough insulin. My job, according to the th
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Creativity as applied schizophrenia.
site of most of your cognitive functions. We will refer to the cerebral cortex as the new brain