Lab rats prefer Miles Davis to Beethoven – but only if they’ve listened to Miles after being injected with cocaine. When they haven’t been coked up, they prefer Beethoven – or, best of all, silence. Those critically important findings come from a study right here at Albany Medical College. As reported by Cathleen Crowley in… [Read More]
Archives for April 2012
The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Everything’s looking so rosy today, I’m singing that catchy ditty from the 80’s, The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades.”* I’m feeling happier than I have in ages, and that scares me a little – for me, with my bipolar diagnosis, high spirits can be a precursor of over-the-top mania. But why shouldn’t I… [Read More]