Demencia frontotemporal
Raúl Ruiz ___________________________ ¿Sabe usted de que se trata? La demencia frontotemporal (DFT) es un grupo de trastornos neurológicos poco comunes que dañan los lóbulos frontal y temporal del cerebro, afectando principalmente la personalidad, la conducta y el lenguaje. A diferencia del Alzheimer, suele aparecer en edades más tempranas (entre los 45 y 64 años) […]
The mushroom gummies that claim to stimulate your brain
Alice, fumbling through Wonderland, comes across a mushroom. One bite of it shrinks her down in size. Chowing on the other side makes her swell up, huge, taller than the treetops. Urgently, Alice sets to work “nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter,” until finally she […]
Nuclear anxiety, that staple of 1980s cinema, is back
In 1964, the Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing described an encounter with a girl in a mental hospital. She believed, he wrote, that “the atom bomb was inside her.” Laing couldn’t help comparing this delusion with the madness of the civilization that had created the bomb in the first place: “The statesmen of the world who […]