australian 60 minutes don't exactly have the best record going to air with science scare stories
I had a look at the study the bloke who was pushing his book was quoting. it said "it is difficult to determine whether social media use prior to data collection caused these distinct neural trajectories or preexisting differences in neural activation placed some youth at risk for more habitual checking behaviors".
Basically it didn't know whether it was looking at cause or effect, that people who like dopamine hits exhibit over-checking behaviour, or that behaviour makes the brain more sensitive to reward pathways.
Still, I force my ungrateful anklebiters off screens until 6:30 of an evening, but that's more to get them off their arse and outside while I continue to post this nonsense like a good parental hypocrite
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 25 Mar 2026, 6:40,
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So it's at best, associated.
Having recently been reading some neurology to understand more about a diagnosis of cluster headaches. This information is waaaay to complex for telly.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 25 Mar 2026, 11:14,
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Have you tried trepanning?
yeah, I reckon there's still a way to go with the research about migraines and treatments, like with a lot of noggin science. we've managed to map the neural connections of roundworms. a fair effort as each of their neurons has about 30 connections. unfortunately they've got 92 neurons. We've got almost a 100 billion, and each one of ours about 8000 connections each.
With kids I'm more concerned about future AI induced intellectual sloth than tiktok
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 25 Mar 2026, 23:13,
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Trepanation has a lot to be further understood
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Wed 25 Mar 2026, 23:45,
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Trepanation is approached with some trepidation, even if you have the antibiotics to survive it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 26 Mar 2026, 0:31,
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There's still a scarcity of research due to funding, but a growing body of evidence of psilocybin (mushies) as effective in headache/migraine frequency and severity reduction
both in long term and, less practically, as an analgesic after acute onset. And it seems to be in quite low doses, rather than that would make you trip balls
might be worth investigating if you've tried other methods, though bear in mind it's a prohibited substance
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028390822002258
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 26 Mar 2026, 3:08,
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Reminds me of a guy on TV describing auto-trepanning
"You hold the drill against your skull, then twist and shout"
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 26 Mar 2026, 6:45,
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At least intellectual sloth might take the edge off civilisation collapse.
I've seriously considered the root of the trigeminal nerve and a chisel before now.
Amusingly, I was called in to see the practice pharmacist recently, none of the doctors in the entire practice was willing to prescribe the medicine my neurologist asked for, such was the risk of sudden death. A calcium channel blocker.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 26 Mar 2026, 0:23,
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