If you don't understand why I said that 100% of a person's alcohol problems can be attributed to conditioned responses via the sense of smell, but instead...
"...the neuroscientifically established fact that 100% of a person's alcohol problems can be attributed to conditioned responses via the sense of smell" ...
"Real life" experiences are involved 100% of the time in all addictions. That's where the FDA and ASAM have excelled in their attempts to explain addiction via...
... See what I mean? ... JK: Glen: What part of the guidelines offered by the FDA for new therapeutic drug development and the ASAM's policy statement on...
Glen: evermore the fool by pretending that I have not detailed this in its entirety, says: Someone should ask Kohl: What is the US? What is the CS? What is the...
The procedure (which I don't quite understand based on just the abstract) IS about reinforcement. It is about the effects of consequences (or lack thereof) -...
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Your attacks on Glen are really gratuitous. He brings a useful perspective to these debates; do I totally share his perspective? No, but I think Glen and Glynn...
I wrote: "What's needed is more data on how olfactory/pheromonal input effects serotonin and dopamine via GnRH and the LH secretion altered by alcohol, for...
Someone should tell Kohl that what he has written makes no sense. At least, I can't make any sense out of it and I have studied conditioning for 35 years (and...
The development of human behavior and the means to intervene in that behavior when it is dysfunctional are two different things. I do not think autism is...
James, My two main questions have been: 1. Only smell 100 %? 2. How shall your research be transferable to "common people"? Most people discussing alcohol...
Previously, I wrote: Â The 2011 ASAM Policy Statement on Addiction places alcohol addiction in the same context as food and sex, which are modeled in the...
In my model, autism and ASDs result from a genetically predisposed ecological niche-dependent nutrient-driven neurogenic excess accompanied by a failure of...
Someone very close to me is transgender, female to male, so I've become much more aware of this tiny community of people though I'm much too old to be able to...
I think people's gender identity and sexual orientation are distinct aspects of their identities. If someone was attracted to women before a sex-change...
"But is it true that science is the final word? I do not believe it is." Moon-man: i agree with ur statement, but i dont believe that this has 2 b the case. as...
Yes. There are lots of social and cultural factors that predict to excessive or problem drinking. (I say excessive drinking because I have yet to come across...
Yes, Teresa, we have got a problem here, I think. Sometimes we (in Sweden) wonder about your (bewildered?) thoughts about sex and gender. When a young student...
Fred, Would it - in your opinion - be correct to say that over the past 60 years, the pendulum of public and scientific opinion on the etiology of autism has ...
The average bar-maid would understand that food odors are responsible for the visual appeal of food, and be able to understand why that means social odors are...
I am very suspicious of the concept of "predisposition;" it always suggests a slavering beast of a disorder waiting for an environmental trigger to set it off....
Glen, I admit I too am quite confused by James V. Kohl. But - a long time ago I decided to try to listen to "odd" people, as sometimes they see things other...
Japanese Earthquake Yields Clues to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder by Elizabeth Norton on 22 May 2012, 4:00 AM Tsunamis within and without. Imaging study shows...
The Brain's Bat Signal by Moheb Costandi on 24 May 2012, 1:40 PM Marching orders. Microglia (green) migrate to injured neurons (red, top) but fail to do so...
James, My brain has other contacts with the outside world besides smell. Although I agree with you that smell is an underrated force - I think you are...
Mental Health Telephone Consultation for Improving Health of People Living with or at Risk of HIV: A Systematic Review Michelle H. M. M. T. van Velthoven,...