Neurobiology and Behaviour

Personality Disorder

I’ve seen a lot of drug dealers lately. I’ve never met one in my personal life, but I have met plenty as a doctor. I must be on some list...

Have you caught Olympic Fever?

Olympic Fever We all interpret events through the prism of our own “world view”. That means that given the same input, different people...

Caution: Do Not Enter

Off Limits: Stop or Go? It’s that time of the year again, in Western Canada, when people start dying because they have been skiing out of...

Carrots and Sticks

Our future human resources I got up early yesterday to drive these two daredevils to their ski-race camp. And, it got me thinking about...

Are we having fun yet?

Happy Hank I’m not the most dedicated hockey fan, but recently I have been following the Vancouver Canucks as they move up the NorthWest...

What is evil?

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Looking through the paper today, I could not miss the article about the Nigerian guy who tried to blow up the...

Sex, text and Tiger’s fall from grace.

Tiger and Elin in happier days KAREN BLEIER / AFP/Getty Images Much has been written recently about Tiger and his ‘transgressions’....

What’s your default mode?

K2 The Savage Mountain Last week, an old climbing buddy, Eileen Bistrisky, invited me to a presentation by Canadian climber, Don Bowie....