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sounz correct, I am sure many have felt the same
way before, I confer!!!!!
but we need to do a CT for an assured confer from
the board, lets reschedule next monday: do you
confer?

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> david a goodman
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> Dear Gang:
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> This may or may not be relevant, but back in
> the 1960s when I was
> studying the neurology of frontal lobe function
> with Halstead at Chicago,
> we were interested in the effects of frontal
> lobotomy.
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> It was then generally agreed that use of
> intoxicant drugs caused a
> reduction in frontal lobes inhibitory function.
> You all have heard the
> phrase: "I would rather have a bottle in front
> of me than a frontal
> lobotomy.
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> Anyway, Halstead spoke and wrote about reduced
> frontal lobe function and
> increased impulsivity in alcoholics and persons
> receiving the frontal
> lobotomy. In both situations the person
> performed socially inappropriate
> acts.
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> Back then and it is still true today that
> criminals, the violent
> criminals, score low on the Halstead-Reitan,
> Ravens matrices, Tower of
> Hanoi and other tests of frontal lobe function.
> The frontal-damaged
> person is more apt to commit anti-social
> activities without forethought.
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> In a series of article beginning in 1978, I
> pointed out that major
> categories of drugs including alcohol
> diminished frontal lobe function
> and could be exceptionally brain-damaging. I
> even wrote a small book on
> brain damage and potent new strains of
> marijuana, being sinsemilla, more
> powerful than hashish.
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> Methamphetamines including MDMA (Ecstasy) are
> powerful disrupters of
> frontal lobes activity and cause permanent
> brain damage. A huge
> literature  now links cocaine to brain damage
> (although a great deal of
> data argues that the damage is not severe).
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> The upshot is that millions of Americans taking
> brain-damaging chemicals
> in the 1960s through the present time, like
> alcohol, sinsemilla, meth,
> ecstacy and cocaine among others often in
> combination may have hidden
> brain damage. It could be subtle to severe and
> predisposes individuals to
> impulsive actions lacking foresight. This
> includes all categories of
> violent behavior.
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> I report this now because in the series of
> articles in 1978, I identified
> what seemed to be an invariant correlate of
> frontal lobe damage, which
> was obesity, the gain of 15-35 pounds. In the
> diminution of frontal lobes
> inhibition, the adult reverts back to more
> childlike eating habits,
> meaning more sweets, fattening foods,
> attraction to things that taste
> good, and willingness to eat larger portions of
> these foods.
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> One conclusion is that Halstead's prediction of
> a nation lobotomized by
> drugs and alcohol has come to pass. Of course,
> this is not the only
> explanation, nor the most parsimonious, but
> certainly no study that I
> have ever read links violent criminality to
> normal frontal lobe function.
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> Were I still a columnist I would write 1,000
> words now on why America
> seems to lack foresight, slimness and honesty.
> It's mostly drugs,
> friends. Including, believe it or not, Prozac.
> And let's not forget
> Grossman's videogames and "Kill Bill. Volume 1.
> Ad nauseam.
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> Hopefully with foresight,
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> David Goodman
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