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Dissertation/Ripskis/Notes

Notes

Chapter 2-The Existential Positions

1. Stephen M. Pollan, Live Rich, Harper Business, 1998, p. 59.

2. Claude Steiner, Achieving Emotional Literacy, Avon, 1997, pp. 121-2.

3. Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Mind’s Past, University of California Press, 1998, p. 21.

4. Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain, Simon & Schuster, 1996, p. 265.

5. Redford and Virginia Williams, Anger Kills, Times Books, 1993, p. xvi.

6. Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind, p. 103.

7. Stephen M. Pollan, Die Broke, Harper Business, 1997.

Chapter 3-Brain Discoveries and Change

1. Richard M. Restak, M.D., The Modular Brain, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994.

2. Some alternatives to the prevailing educational model are: Partnership Schools, Oneness-Family School, Montessori, homeschooling, charter schools. Also log on http://edweb.gsn.org/edref.sys.types.html

3. See Howard Gardner’s books Intelligence Reframed:

Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century and The Disciplined Mind or Web site http://edweb.gsn.org/edref.mi.intro.html

Chapter 4 - Pleasure Deficit and Brain’s Reward Pathways

1. A confession of a former cocaine addict quoted in Richard M. Restak’s, The Mind, Bantam Books, 1988, p. 113.

Chapter 5 - The Modular Brain

1. Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998, p. 10.

2. Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Social Brain, Basic Books, 1985, p. 6.

3. Ibid., p. 86.

4. Gazzaniga quoted in Judith Hooper’s, The Three-Pound Universe, McMillan, 1986, p. 235.

5. Michael S. Gazzaniga, Mind Matters - How Our Mind and Brain Interact to Create Our Conscious Lives, Houghton Mifflin, 1988, p. 231.

6. As Gazzaniga explains further, “brain and mind are built from discrete units—or modules—that carry out specific functions. ... yet our highly modularized brain generates the feeling in all of us that we are integrated and unified. How so, given that we are a collection of specialized modules? The answer may be that the left hemisphere seeks explanations for why events occur.” “The Split Brain Revisited,” The Scientific American Book of the Brain, The Lyons Press, 1999, p. 129+.

7. See Egograms by John M. Dusay, Harper & Row, 1977.

8. Robert Ornstein and Richard F. Thompson, The Amazing Brain, Houghton Mifflin, 1984, pp. 22-3.

Chapter 6 - Cortical Integration

1. Linda Carter, Mapping the Mind, p. 180.

Chapter 7 - Overweight Epidemic And The Failure Of The Medical Model

   1. Philip B. Fontanarosa, Executive Deputy Editor, The Journal of American Medical Association, "Obesity Research - A Call for Papers," Oct. 9, 2002, Vol. 288, No. 14, p. 1772.
   2. Reported in the Oct. 9, 2002, issue of The Journal of American Medical Association.“Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2000,” Katherine M. Flegal, et al., Vol. 288, No. 14, p. 1723. NHANES survey: 64.5% of U.S. adults overweight, 30.5% obese.
   3. According to the 2000 U.S. Census there were 200,948,641 adult Americans age 20 and over. Hence, 129,611,000 Americans overweight, 61,289,000 obese.
   4. The 53.6 million Americans who were separated/downsized since 1979: from 1979-1995 it was 43 million, per New York Times ; 1996 through December 31, 2003, the number was 10,628,508, per Department of Labor.

   5. Chapter 5, "The Modular Brain," Dissertation
   6. Chapter 4, "Pleasure Deficit," Ibid.
   7. Chapter 2, "The Existential Positions," Ibid.
   8. Chapter 9, "Play & Fitness," Ibid.
   9. Chapter 6, "Cortical Integration," Ibid.
10. Chapter 8, "Weight, Fun & Fitness," Ibid.
11."Low-Carbohydrate Diets and Realities of Weight Loss," George A. Bray, MD., JAMA, April 9, 2003, Vol. 289, No.14, p.1843

Chapter 8 - Weight, Fun & Fitness

1. “Overeating, Not Metabolism, Blamed For Obesity of Many,” Associated Press, December 31, 1992.

2. Eugenia E. Calle, et, al., “Body-Mass Index and Mortality,” N.E. Jour of Med. Vol. 341, No. 15, 1097-1105.

3. Alison E. Field, et. al., “Impact of Overweight on the Risk of Developing Common Chronic Diseases During a 10-Year Period,” Arch. Intern. Med. 2001;161:1581-1586.

4. “Serotonin damps down activity in the lateral hypothalamus [our appetite control center] so a high level of it is likely to reduce appetite, while a low level is likely to increase it.” Linda Carter Mapping the Mind, pp. 66-8.

Chapter 9 – Play & Fitness

1. George Sheehan, MD, Running and Being : The Total Experience, Simon and Schuster, 1978, p. 76.

Chapter 10 – Replacing the Nicotine Addiction

1. Alexander Glassman, “Cigarette Smoking and Its Comorbidity,” at Web site http://www.psychosocial.com/dualdx/052-060_Glassman.pdf

2. H. Waal-Manning, and F. Dehamel., “Smoking Habit and Psychometric Scores: A Community Study,” New Zealand Medical Journal, 88,1978:188-191

Chapter 11 - The Drinking Conundrum

1. Bankole Johnson, “Ondansetron for Reduction of Drinking Among Biologically Predisposed Alcohol Patients,” JAMA, Vol. 284, No. 8, August 23, 2000, pp. 963-971.

2. Herbert Fingarette, Heavy Drinking - The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease, U. of CA Press, 1988.

3. Ibid. p. 110

4. Ibid. p. 115

5. Ibid. p. 121

6. Ibid. p. 127

7. Richard K. Fuller, M.D., “Alcohol Treatment in the United States,” Alcohol Research & Health, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1999, p. 76.