Could past cocaine use be affecting bush's behavior?

[alfredo]

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698

Cocaine use prevents adaptive behaviour
17:00 20 July 2005
NewScientist.com news service
Gaia Vince


Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats. The finding may shed light on the impulsive behaviour seen in cocaine addicts, researchers say.

A team looked at the connections between two regions of the brain: one involved with learning, memory and processing information - the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus - and one involved with pleasure seeking, emotion and reward behaviour - the nucleus accumbens in the limbic system.

Normally, these two regions are held in balance with connections between the two sending information in both directions and allowing “plasticity” of thought, so that behaviour can be modified and adapted to different situations.

[maxsolomon]

1. don't make excuses for a narcissist

[alfredo]

Evenone with a brain damage from drugs and alcohol?

[sniffa]

2. most definateLy.

it's aLso (most LikeLy) the cause of his erectiLe dysfunction.

[justinsb]

3. Hell, current cocaine use could be affecting his behavior n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Took the words right offa my fingers

[Inland]

4. The autopsy will provide valuable clues.

Not that I'm hoping for it sooner rather than later.

[Inland]

5. More seriously, to borrow a page from the party that used to care,

some people are just plain evil or stupid or both.

[alfredo]

6. He is all. Could his inablity to change course in Iraq be a

sign of the cocaine induced lack of adaptability?

[benburch]

7. PAST use?

He is USING NOW.

[BiggJawn]

8. Took the words right out from under my fingers.....

Bet he did a line before his first meeting this AM.

[DELUSIONAL]

10. Randi Rhodes mentioned the jaw movement

she saw bushie doing yesterday and linked this specific jaw popping as related to cocaine use.

I've never seen the behavior -- but other people who have seem to know have witnessed this disturbing behavior in bushie.

[bigwillq]

25. Heard her say that too!

I noticed it a few times, him with the jaw.

[SteppingRazor]

9. This study says nothing about past use, just current use.

I'd like to think that those who are no longer contributing to the Colombian economy, so to speak, can bounce back. In fact, I know they can.

As for Bush, have you considered the fact that he's just stupid?

[alfredo]

11. Earlier studies say that cocaine causes permenent changes

in the brain.

Yeah, he is stupid and boorish.

[Angry Girl]

12. Oh give me a f*cking break! More anti-drug crap!

Yeah, maybe the studies are correct if you're an addict! But how many people use cocaine recreationally and don't have any cognitive problems? Oh, nooooo! God forbid we mention THAT!

Repeat after me: Drugs baaaaaaad! Pharmaceuticals goooood!

If only people were aware of how absolutely *CRITICAL* the DRUG WAR is to the American military (gives them a perfect excuse to enter, spy, and mess with other countries) and to the industrial-prison complex, they would stop blaming "drugs" for everything!

[alfredo]

20. Some drugs are good, some are bad. It has nothing to do with legality

in my opinion. I'd rather a person use smack than crack.

Some mushrooms taste good, some get you high, some kill you.

[Angry Girl]

22. You're right, but people get so hung up on legality that they

fall hard for the mind manipulation....

And THAT is what annoys the crap out of me! :-)

[alfredo]

23. sounds like you need

a "walk through the garden."

[samsingh]

13. he's evil through and through

like his mother

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Well...

Yeah!

[rstlne]

19. I think it's the alcohol

http://www.imageshack.us>

Funny the things one can do with that face!

[DistressedAmerican]

24. GREAT! HYSTERICAL. That Shot Is Gold! So Handy!

:applause:

[rstlne]

29. Thanks!

I was giggling the whole time I was making it.
You're stuff cracks me up too, great work!

[Deja Q]

15. Drinking abuse too.

He shouldn't be president of an ant colony.

[Kurovski]

28. He would be queen of the ant colony...

ruling with his beloved B-FBuddy Jeff Gannon at his side.

[Dr Fate]

16. Look at his strange facial movements- he looks like Brian Wilson.

And we all know Brian loved him some blow-caine too.

[alfredo]

21. But Wilson contributed something of value

to society.

[Dr Fate]

27. Yeah- and Wilson stopped doing the blow and sought treatment.

And he had talent. Perhaps I should not compare the two.

[alfredo]

30. Apples and oranges.

[Booster]

18. Lack of a conscience is what's affecting Bush's behavior.

[Sugarbleus]

26. He didn't use it long enough..BUT his Mother + genetics

probably caused his narcissistic/anti-social personality disorder.

[UTUSN]

31. Uh-hum, Yep, Perhaps, Uh-hum n/t

[PuraVidaDreamin]

32. The grinding and clicking...so tell tale

I noticed him doing this increasingly approx two weeks before the election last year (when he wasn't really sure that Diebold
would come through for him)

Situation is J-u-s-t a t-a-d more uncertain. Kimchee high
The jaw crunching is definitely more pronounced. I can finally watch *him on TV again and not become nauseated.