Recent content by Naranja

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    Can personality disorders be cured, or are they lifelong?

    Organic or Traumatic Some psychiatrists still lie to their patients by telling them that they have a chemical imbalance even though no one knows what chemicals are imbalanced, and there's no test for the imbalance. The psych meds affect neurotransmitters. They don't balance chemicals. But the...
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    Can personality disorders be cured, or are they lifelong?

    Aleph Zero, Are you that there is no mental illness? That people are just different? They shouldn't be treated or changed? I'm not sure that I agree. Some of those medicines keep people alive and able to support themselves financially.
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    Should expensive lab science like the LHC be cut during government budget crises?

    I don't think that this slump will last forever. This is just temporary. Eventually, the debt will come down. It would be much better and faster, in my opinion, for central banks to just inflate our way out of it, but governments putting us through some more lean years would work too. It will...
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    Can personality disorders be cured, or are they lifelong?

    By episodic remission, you're talking an individual case that gets better or "cured" for an unexplained reason, right? Has there ever been an episodic remission of a group of people? I read that the DSM-5 puts the illnesses in the same group that were previously separated into Axis 1 and Axis...
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    Can personality disorders be cured, or are they lifelong?

    I'm talking about the personality disorders as shown in Axis 2 of the DSM-IV. They are fixed and from childhood or birth. For, anti-social personality disorder as an adult, you have to have what is called a conduct disorder before age 15. That's where you hurt animals, start fires, fight a lot...
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    Should expensive lab science like the LHC be cut during government budget crises?

    I think more budget cuts will be needed because of a lack of inflation in the world's developed economies. I'm talking about core inflation, and that's the fault of central banks. They are still traumatized by the 1970's even though this slump has been worse. There's so much slack in the economy...
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    Can personality disorders be cured, or are they lifelong?

    How fixed are they? Are they ever cured, especially anti-social personality disorder and borderline personality disorder, or they all just life long? Are they genetic or from trauma? Is the biological medical model true for some cases while the trauma model (sexual abuse, neglect, etc) is...
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    Why does increased output volume cause interest rates to rise?

    I like Czcibor's explanation. I'll use the U.S. in my example. On the yield curve, short-term interest rates are controlled by the Federal Reserve. Long-term interest rates are only influenced by the Fed. Long-term rates are determined by bond market participants. Long-term rates are...
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    Is there research for mathematicians?

    I am not a math or science person, but I'm trying to learn so please forgive my lack of knowledge. Is there research in math? Are there boundaries to math that can be pushed out? Studying the universe, it's obvious that we don't know everything yet. There is plenty to discover for physicists...
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    How global exchange rates are determined

    Rates are quoted on the FOREX (foreign exchange market). They are quoted in currency pairs like the US Dollar vs Japanese Yen. You can get these quotes live from a broker when you have an account: http://www.forexdirectory.net/quotesfx.html They are quoted as bid/ask. Bid is the price that...