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I’ve had the pleasure of participating in Bornstein’s Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory during my time at the University of California - Irvine, and I credit this experience with helping me appreciate cognitive science. It also shaped my biases towards computational modeling and data-driven approaches in discussions about the mind and brain, including skepticism towards…
A physician likely born around 1850-1860, Pettey was controversial in his time for criticizing substances like heroin and opium in all its forms as addictive, regardless of the method of ingestion. He also proposed a now-discarded theory of addiction that relied on toxins and internal medicine over psychology or neurology. Pettey’s motivations were personal and social. From his 1913 book, The…
By 1817, De Quincey was consuming more than 20,000 milligrams of morphine a day. De Quincey’s book Confessions of an Opium Eater (1821) achieved a legendary status in Western societies as one of the most popular texts describing the influence of opium. In George Pettey’s The Narcotic Drug Diseases and Allied Ailments: Pathology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment (1913), the author critically…
Leon Festinger was a social psychologist most known for articulating cognitive dissonance theory and social comparison theory in modern clinical psychology.
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Daniel Anderson joined the army from 1942 to 1945 as a radarman in the Pacific, after which he used the GI Bill to pursue higher education. He had a poor academic record (he and his friends literally made a game out of trying to get low scores in the past since they hated school), but the College of St. Thomas accepted him despite the missing courses anyways. He enrolled in 1946 and began working…
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An interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, a Major League Baseball player, Ippei Mizuhara was convicted of bank fraud and tax evasion. Specifically, he admitted to stealing almost $17 million from Ohtani to pay off gambling debts. The bookie, Matthew Bowyer, said he recognized Mizuhara’s compulsive gambling habits. However, E. Martin Estrada, then U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California and…
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In 1946, she became the first female case of amphetamine psychosis at Bellevue Hospital.
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