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Learning and Though Inquiries from the Week: August 1, 2022
🕑 Added 2022-09-29 05:16:08 +0000 UTCSudden Onset Tourettes in Teen Girls
There has been a weird phenomenon of young teen girls suddenly developing tic-like disorders during the pandemic. There is a strong belief that it may be partly due to TikTok and social media. Is it a real disorder? Is it social contagion? What's the difference?
Below are some academic articles that wrestle with one another to explain the phenomenon.
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article-pdf/145/2/476/43390348/awab316.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13591045221098522
https://adc.bmj.com/content/archdischild/106/5/420.full.pdf
Comparative article I found from before the pandemic looked at TD in adolescents.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7082238/
Some Wikipedia's that outline some of the related concepts:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_(medicine)
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness#Children_in_recent_refugee_families
60 Minutes Video Reviewed on stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra4-gmQT_50&ab_channel=60MinutesAustralia
Alzheimer's Disease
https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease
TLDR: The original work of AD showing that plaque's in the brain were responsible for AD was not just incorrect, but the data was falsified.
Suicide Risk Assessment
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1002/jclp.22994
In my view, this is the best suicide risk assessment measure developed to date.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jclp.22210
Full explanation of DT
Philosophy of Science
Positivism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism#Critical_rationalism_and_postpositivism
https://conjointly.com/kb/positivism-and-post-positivism/
Postpositivism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositivism
Random articles from my morning readings
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627312005843
TLDR: Showing cognitive pathways associated with intelligence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959566/#:~:text=The%20main%20problem%20with%20the,behavior%20toward%20same%2Dsex%20others.
TLDR: Problems with the Kinsey Scale; it implies in some way that a greater homosexual interest decreases the interest in heterosexual interest.
LOLs never posted this, here you go
Comments
Kaleb Peters
Interesting! I had a housemate who went through this, actually. And it was definitely at least correlated with tiktok lol
