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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: &#8220;When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! Febuary 15, 2010 The Vancouver-based Dr. Gabor Maté argues that too many doctors seem to have forgotten what was once a commonplace assumption—that emotions are deeply implicated in both the development of illness and in the restoration of health. Based on medical studies and his own experience with chronically ill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Gabor Maté: ADHD, Bullying, and the Destruction of American Childhood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by Democracy Now! November 24, 2010 A spike in diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and other mental disorders has fueled an unprecedented reliance on pharmaceutical medications to treat children, with long-term effects that remain unknown. We speak with Canadian physician and best-selling author, Dr. Gabor Maté. He argues that these responses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Can Answer Moral Questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the February 2010 Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) Conference, Sam Harris questioned why good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. Sam Harris argues that science can &#8212; and should &#8212; be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. I agree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Status Quo Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more difficult the decision we face, the more likely we are not to act, according to new research by UCL scientists that examines the neural pathways involved in &#8216;status quo bias&#8217; in the human brain. The study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), looked at the decision-making of participants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Expert Says Positive Thinking Is The Smart Way To Recover From Alcoholism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Denis Campbell Originally published by The Guardian, March 10th,  2010 Joe Gerstein, founder of the SMART Recovery treatment program that is spreading from the US as an alternative to AA, explains why he rejects the myth that alcoholism is a &#8216;disease&#8217; to be endured rather than cured Alcoholism is a disease that leaves victims powerless [...]]]></description>
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