Neuroanthropology: Beyond the Drug War: Drug Policy, Social Interventions,...
Beyond the Drug War This week I reached a turning point. The drug war is over for me. It’s immoral, it’s destructive, and worse, it’s not effective. Supporting it, when legal drugs are both regulated...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Getting around by sound: Human echolocation
By Greg Downey As any fan of the adventures of Daredevil knows, being blind in comic books can give you superpowers. Matt Murdoch was blinded by a radioactive accident that he befell because he tried...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: Chemical Imbalances and Mental Illness? Go for the Placebo...
Marcia Angell has a wonderful review, The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?, up at the New York Review of Books. I want to highlight two things: (1) the fall of the “chemical imbalances” theory of the...
View ArticleNeuroanthropology: BioAnthropology on Facebook
I’m hardly the most savvy of Facebook users. My wife joined last week, and I think she already has more friends than I do. I suspect that people have sent me messages that are forever lost on the vast...
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