Susan Healy

Susan Healy

than small ones, and that the method doesn’t work when the tube contains sawdust instead of water. Together with Bird and her student Lucy Cheke, Clayton transferred the Aesopian experiment to jays, demonstrating that the ability to use tools is a wider phenomenon in the corvid family, and not restricted to the Corvus genus. Confronting the jays with a range of variations of the experiment, the...

Healy Redux : In response to Healy

This article, which was not indicated as written by David Healy, appears to provide a summary of the point of view espoused by Healy in his recent books, The Antidepressant Era and The Creation o/Psychopharmacology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. I have written a review of the latter and some of the key ideas in the former in Science (Meltzer, 2002) which I refer the interested read...

COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF THE BRAIN AND ITS COMPONENTS by SUSAN D. HEALY and PAUL H. HARVEY

The weight of the adult brain and its component parts in mammals and birds are correlated with body weight, and with lifestyle independently of body weight. It is not clear that any particular exponent relating brain weight to body weight is characteristic of either mammalian or avian taxa, which means that most explanations for particular values of exponents lack empirical foundation. Dietary ...

In Response to Healy

It is always a challenge to comment on an article which attempts to draw together topics as complex and diverse as: the role of psychodynamic therapy in war time soldiers; the role of the asylum in western history; the Harrison Narcotics act of 1914; the Food Drugs and Cosmetics Act; the role of contraception in social change; the Enlightenment; the efficacy and image of ECT in medicine and the...

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