The topic I have chosen is about LSD. Today’s scientists are trying to find an understanding of this drug. Scientists try to pick up where they left off on this study. They are trying to find possible therapeutic effects of the drug on the intense anxiety experienced by patients with life threaten diseases such as cancer. The patients who received the drug found the experience aided them emotionally, and none experienced panic reactions or other untoward events.
One patient said LSD helped him overcome anxious feelings after being diagnosed with stomach cancer, and the experience with the drug aided his return to his job. This article is a very interesting one I think they could use the drug for medical purposes only. You must regulate how much the patient gets giving them to much will just make them an addict and the reason you gave this drug to them just turned the other way. You should care about this drug because it could really help people during had times of cancer or brain tumors or times of high anxiety over something. So my choice is if they can find a decent use for this drug then they should use it for medical purpose only.
What would you chose about this drug do you think that this drug could help the society today or just give more reason for drug addicts to get more drugs? Do you think this method of therapy will work?
Music makes us have chills and sometimes make us cry but did you know that it can effect what we see in visual images. At the university of London researchers did an experiment with 30 testers some were listening to happy music the others were listening to sad music. Some of the people were shown a happy face. A person was smiling while others were shown a sad or neutral face. The testers were rated the emotional they felt.
The faces on a 7 point scale where 1 mean extremely sad and 7 extremely happy. The researchers found that music powerfully influenced the emotion of the faces. Happy music made happy faces seem even happier while sad music made the frown look even sadder. The same effect was also shown with neutral faces. The experiment shown that the emotions of music can easily spread from your ears and your brain.
I chose this topic because music is in everybody day to day life millions and millions of people listen to music everyday. Have you ever noticed that you see happier people after you listening to a happy song? Do you think this is a true experiment? I myself have never noticed that music can change my emotion to a visual but I have noticed that loud head banging metal can get me pumped up and angry quick. Music has a way to change my emotion and can make me happy angry or sad in just one click of my ipod.
Everyone in this school knows someone with ADD or ADHD. Whether it is your friend, brother, teacher, or the kid who sits next to you in history, you know SOMEONE. And I am sure there are days where that person is driving you nuts and you think to yourself, “I bet they didn’t take their Ritalin this morning.” I personally do it with my brother almost everyday. I even keep a few of his meds on hand just in case.
However in new research from the University at Buffalo pediatric, psychologist are suggesting that if you believe that a patient has received treatment in a form of a pill you will treat them as if they have been medicated. This is called a placebo effect, which causes a positive change in symptoms, or behavior after a patient receives a “fake” medication or procedure. This is usually tested on patients but in this study they are “tricking” the people in the life of the ADD or ADHD child.
Lead researcher at UB, Daniel A. Waschbusch, Ph.D. said, “The act of administering medication, or thinking a child has received medication, may induce positive expectancies in parents and teachers about the effects of that medication, which may, in turn, influence how parents and teachers evaluate and behave toward children with ADHD.”
The next step in the placebo research is to study the parents and children and how they work together under three different conditions
1. After children received a pill with real medication
2. After children received a pill with fake medication (a placebo)
3. After children didn’t receive any pill.
Now that you know this, think of the kids you know who have ADHD and ADD. Do you think that if you were told they took their meds (even if they didn’t) you would see the positives in them? Can treating an ADHD or ADD child as if they are taken their medication, in turn produce positive changes in the child’s behavior?