Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with neurology
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DEMENTIA
Take notes. Many of the Boomers with HIV are now elderly. HIV/AIDS affects many of the body’s organ systems, including the brain and nervous system. HIV infection actually makes its way to the brain early in the disease process. HIV encephalopathy is an infection spread throughout the brain. The greater…
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The Ha Ha
The layering makes a lot of sense. When we want to connect with other people, it’s more a matter of two brains scanning each other. The operant word here is: smell. Those with it are like the witches in the father christmas tales where it has to be in the…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Sometimes (often) a shadow passes over you that you can recognize as raw despair. I often write about how we as people find it convenient to ignore the part pain causes a trauma that is so hard to recover from. It is a neurological reality that trauma changes a human…
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Tim Barrus, New York Times
Trump Supporters and the Lizard Brain Homo Sapiens usually have an ideological safety net called family. Most verterbrate species hand down the ideas of what is “reality” as law via generations from the past. There is no human history where patriarchy was not ascendent. The pregnant female who left the…