Mind and tissueRay Peat
Mind and tissue
by Ray Peat · first published 1976
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"Mind and Tissue is an interesting attempt to bridge the gulf between psychology and the harder neurosciences. Even readers who do not follow all of the technical material in the book will get from it the flavor of Soviet mind research, which, based as it is on very different assumptions from European and American science, has much to tell us about other ways of correlating experiences with events in cells and tissues. Ray Peat has done a useful service in making this information available." Andrew T Weil, M D Author of The Natural Mind "...a cogent summary of Soviet psychology..
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From Ray Peat, Mind and Tissue: >The famous Russian neuro-psychologist, A.R. Luria, has described the behavior of dogs when this tissue is damaged or removed: ...destruction of the frontal lobes leads, not so much to a disturbance…
on “Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web” ↗>Where does this come from? The book "Mind and Tissue" by Ray Peat, available on LibGen (and amazon, for $200 used). >Are drugs like Adderall or Ritalin sufficient based on this view? From the text, > the observation that drugs which stimulate the sympathetic…
on “Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web” ↗…B1) to improve glucose metabolism in cells, alongside taking in adequate cholesterol for the production of stabilizing neurosteroids such as progesterone, is a more specific description. Quotation from Mind and Tissue, by Ray Peat: ``` The brain, with its extremely high energy requirements, is usually the first to suffer from energy deprivation. At slight levels of deprivation, the brain will simply lose functional…
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