@dysclinic Varenicline may improve symptoms by increasing available acetylcholine.
I may have experimented on myself to treat my MS-like Long Covid symptoms, and found this to be the case
I wish he would have a schizophrenia expert on to discuss this commonly misunderstood illness, and the range of phenotypes generated by genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia.
@TCNetwork I just watched Tucker’s conversation with Kian Sadeghi, and I watched Tucker’s conversation with the exorcist. Tucker appears to have a somewhat naive/misinformed idea of what schizophrenia is. For example, eliminating schizophrenia would largely eliminate creativity.
We put the land use argument to Keith.
Keith. You are occupying agricultural land that could, theoretically, be used to grow crops. How do you respond?
Keith stopped chewing.
He looked at the field.
The field is on a 30-degree slope in Devon. The topsoil is clay. The drainage is complicated. No tractor has successfully operated in the lower section without becoming a story people tell in the village pub.
Keith looked at us.
Keith, do you believe this field could produce food crops without you on it?
Keith walked to the lower section of the field. He ate a thistle. He stepped on a bramble runner and ate that too. He looked at the clay in the corner where it waterlogged every winter and produced nothing except rushes, which Keith also ate.
Are you saying the field is only productive because you're on it?
Keith looked at us with the expression of an animal that has grasped the argument entirely and found the question slightly beneath him.
He then left through the gate he had opened by himself.
He was in the road for nine minutes.
He ate a passing cyclist's energy bar.
We are not including this in the land use efficiency report.
@Emmanue76238972 @jontweetssports I was a freshman in college when my father insisted that I go to purchase new tires one my own. There was much crying and wringing of hands.
I recently went with my 45y/o niece to buy tires. She’d never even gotten the oil changed by herself. Thanks Dad!
Just found out that in eastern Tennessee there's a colony of native Arabic speakers who are descendants of Syrian migrants who came to the US over a century ago. They speak--I kid you not--a fluent *hillbilly* dialect of Arabic. And it's gorgeous. God bless America.
@BrianRoemmele Glucocorticoid (stress) to minerolocortocoid (challenge) cortisol. This change in receptor ratio could lead to perceptual changes under normal conditions that are typically only seen under prolonged stress.
@BrianRoemmele Hey Brian,
Two of my brothers had schizophrenia. I worked in a lab that studied spatial cognition, and quickly realized that I had difficulty seeing 2D depictions of 3D space. Turns out that long term exposure to stressful conditions leads to 1/
@BrianRoemmele A flattening of perceived depth. My guess is that this is due to cortisol filling glucocorticoid receptors, which usually happens under considerable stress, and that people who are predisposed to schizophrenia have a higher ratio of 2/
@RealCandaceO We wouldn’t have to mangle trees to keep them off power lines. Our roads could be shaded - very important for Nashvillians like me who love to walk, but don’t want to bake while doing so