'IQ pills' land in trouble

The Trouble with Chill Pills AndreaToneThe Age of Anxiety2008Basic Books320 pp., $26.95 hardcover

In the early 1960s Hoffman La-Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, introduced Librium (chlordiazepoxide) and Valium (diazepam) for the treatment of anxiety. Members of a new class of drugs named benzodiazepines, they were immediate bestsellers. In The Age of Anxiety Andrea Tone (2008), a Professor of the Social History of Medicine at McGill, describes the people, the companies, and the cultur...

Embodied Music Cognition: Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

These are interesting times for the Embodied Music Cognition (EMC) framework. Briefly summarized, EMC relies upon the hypothesis that embodied sensorimotor engagement is essential to both production and perception of music (Leman, 2008; Leman and Maes, 2014). This hypothesis, while suitable for accommodating different research methods used in empirical musicology (Godøy and Leman, 2010), may be...

Trouble in paradise.

An otherwise healthy 35-year-old woman presented to our clinic in Central Texas complaining of malaise, whole body rash, and joint pain of 2 days duration. She had recently returned from her honeymoon in Bora Bora after a ten day stay. She stayed in an air-conditioned resort but did sleep a few nights under a mosquito tent in the tropical forest where she suffered from multiple insect bites. On...

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