2008-04-17

On the 14th, we will be watching Hotel Rwanda, and the week after that we will be doing the soc-psych experiments (going against the norms). Today we will be finishing the Turrete's syndrome video."Turretes helps me because it makes me do things over and over again. Repetitive. I am a perfectionist. So sometimes I will practice for 2 hours just to do something until I get it right." Only 15 to 25% have coprodalia - verbal ticks in the form of obscenities. coproillea.

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Can people with Turrete's acquire new ticks? New repetitions (reps) and new recursions (recurses)?

So when you are in extreme concentration, that uses dopamine, and the ticks do not occur. So if we can enhance presynaptic dopamine reuptake, perhaps it can be solved. Girls develop it from 5 to 10 years, and the boys with 10 to 13, kind of like the hormonal shift in puberty triggering stuff, around puberty.

It was interesting to see the artist in the last scene: it was just like Adrian Monk on the USA Network. Very repetitive, energetic, recursive. It's like a literal tip of the tongue phenomenon.

Different personalities have different metabolic rates (breathing, heart, body temperature, etc.). These are changed from one personality to another. It's a form of self-hypnosis. What about those people who can self-meditate and change their bodily physiology? Staring out a window during class is a hypnotic trance, or even a runner's high is the same as well. So we know that these trances can't cause the MPD split. The trauma usually is something one huge thing -- sexual/physical abuse. Which coping mechanism do you have in place for trauma?