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What Siever says is that mud will not turn into shale while under sea water.
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What Siever says is that mud will not turn into shale while under sea water.
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What Siever says is that mud will not turn into shale while under sea water.
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The problem may stem from too little serotonin, the chemical whose job it is to censor behavior that previously led to punishment, says Siever.
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He lived alone, filled his days with crossword puzzles and TV, and "worried that others were making fun of him," says Siever. like all of Siever's patients, he was seriously ill.
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"" Your serotonin system doesn't rule you, '' says Siever.
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Siever suspects that suspiciousness and an inability to process the information contained in the rhythms and cues of social interaction arise from an oversupply of dopamine in the brain's emotion-control room and a shortage in the more rational cortex.
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"Someone just barely able to restrain his impulsive actions wouldn't [seem] psychotic," says Siever.
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Siever suspected, based on biochemical tests, that the man's inability to understand social cues stemmed from a dopamine imbalance.
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"So much of social interaction is based on unspoken rhythms and pacing," says Mount Sinai's Siever. "that people who don't get those beats often feel left out and alienated" -- like the woman who can't tell from body language that the man she's chatting with wants to flee.
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