I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
whoa - he really wanted to ace that paper. are there any side effects to ritalin? although taken in a large enough quantity anything can have a side effect, i suppose.
ReplyDeleteI suppose insurance will not cover ritalin for such purposes...
i couldn't get my insurance company to cover a 10-day dosage of antibiotics because the specific antibiotic I was taking was only prepackaged for a three-day dosage (it was approved by the FDA as a three day treatment to treat upper respiratory infections). My doctor, however, was trying to treat an upper respiratory infection and Lyme disease so a 10-day dosage was necessary. No can do, said the insurance company. I had to fork over the difference. Yikes, no small change.