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hollycatrawr33 karma

Well shit. I work with high school students, sometimes middle school and elementary. There are middle school girls who are taller than me with larger breasts, but not much of a figure yet. I am 5'1, 110lbs and wear a 32C, (but actually a 33C, but that 32C can translate to a 34B or a 36A, so the cupsize and bandsize are equally important when it comes to fit, but a 28D can look a lot like a 32A. Cup size is not cut and dry. There are also 5th grade girls who are nearly 5'8.

I've found that the most telling sign of a person's age is how they carry themselves, unless their mental/emotional age is far more mature than their physical age, or they're far younger than their physical age.

I have been a scholar of forensic psych and criminology for about 8 years now, and haven't studied pedophilia as much as other criminal pathologies or behaviors, but /U/Unkown_Poo 's question (did I do that right?) debacle is one that I've battled with. I think a lot of it comes down to moralization and the naturalistic fallacy. I have also battled with whether pedophiles can change...or if they would implode like suppressed homosexuals -especially those who go to conversion therapy.

hollycatrawr5 karma

There is a connection between tinnitus and anesthesia, so it would likely the anesthesia that did it. People come out with all sorts of odd sensory changes -some have an altered sense of taste/smell.

Its interesting because people often hear ringing in their ears before passing out, some also have tinnitus after drug overdoses. There appears to be some connection to the state of unconsciousness. There don't seem to be any large scale studies though.

hollycatrawr4 karma

I know that it is tough to research cannabis while it is still federally illegal. What do we know so far about the different cannabinoids and their ability to prevent or treat?

I remember hearing ten years ago that cannabis use can protect against alzheimer's. I'm guessing this is more specific to CBD than to straight up smoking weed.

hollycatrawr2 karma

I can answer this: yes. It is a little more involved though and there are different "feedback" stimuli used depending on the patient such as a song, movie, or other desirable sensation. It is still being studied and developed, but there is merit to it. I learned about it mostly in the context of PTSD and ADHD. One of my professors was a practitioner and did a demonstration for the class.

IIRC, basically you have an EEG cap on and the therapist creates input for a desired pattern/state of brain wave activity for a particular area of/"system" within the brain. The patient will start by listening to their favorite song, and as they deviate from the desired activity, the song will get quieter, as their brain wave activity aligns with the desired state, the song will become louder. The brain/person eventually "learns" that in order to experience the desired stimulus, it must regulate the waves in a particular way. The goal is to keep the song playing at an audible volume the whole way through. Some practitioners have started using video games that integrate brainwaves. There is question as to whether/how much the brainwaves are being altered through 'voluntary' response vs. involuntary regulation.

It is graded as a level 2 evidence based practice, meaning that at least one sufficiently designed random controlled trial has shown it to be effective. For it to be level 1, there would need to be a meta analysis/systematic review of multiple relevant high quality random controlled trials with similar results. Last I saw it isn't quite there yet, but it is worth continuing to study its applications.

P.S. I love your username. Have you been to ihatecilantro.com ?

hollycatrawr2 karma

Hi, thank you for your work. What you are working on now is exactly what I was interested in doing when I first entered college in 2010. I had an idea to create music with EEG waves collected during states of meditation and visualization as my capstone project. I went down a different road so I'm not really up to date on the latest developments, but based on how far things have appear to have come since then it seems entirely possible that someone has done something similar by now. Is there anything that you know of?

And a theoretical/possibly practical question: Would somebody with an auditory processing disorder provide different feedback on an EEG? For example, below you said that Dr. Nina Kraus and Erika Skowe conducted an experiment in which they played Smoke on the Water for participants and then listened to the song as the brainstem "played it back." I know we are possibly getting into different systems here, but I suppose it is a question of how deep something like amusia goes, and if we have any way of replicating the auditory experience for the non-afflicted. Same with something like misophonia.

Put more simply: have you seen atypical/lesioned brains oscillating differently?