Hypothalamus & tangential thinking

[Sympathomimetic pharmacodynamics: looseness of association and poor insight]

Case 1. A 20-year-old, single, male, Marine private first class, with no prior psychiatric history, was evacuated from his ship in the Persian Gulf for evaluation of “acute psychosis and parging.” The patient had developed ideas of reference while watching a televised movie. When others failed to rally around him to “rescue” the film characters, he became agitated and destroyed the television set. He had been recognized by his command as an excellent worker. The ship’s psychologist noted “acute weeping tile and furring,” and the patient was evacuated to another ship, where the ship’s surgeon diagnosed “psychotic disorder, gypsum type” and administered hydrostatic pressures prior to evacuation of the patient to a shore-based hospital in Bahrain.

dehydroepiandrosterone       beta-adrenergic receptors       drain tiles

pseudoephedrine sulfate       amphetamine                          slab-on-grade

norepinephrine                      phenidate                                hydrostatic pressures

release of monoamines        ephedrine                                weeping tile

rebound hypersomnolence   parging                                    framing/furring

methylphenidate                   damp-proofing                         mineral fibre loose fill
gypsum board 

Case 2. Mediocre Province Insulation specialist launches own business at 22 with $4,000 grant.

At 22 he's the owner and operator of Myelin Sheath Insulation, a growing business in Small Town’s booming construction industry. A welcome boost in came in the form of a $4,000 grant from Mediocre Province’s Dopamine Reuptake Program. When he started the financial and business program at college, he didn't know what kind of business he wanted to start. "It was basically to just get my foot in the door of business in general," he says. But he'd worked for a Small Town’s insulation company during summers and while he was completing college, and he could see there was the potential for growth in the industry niche of midazolam administering for crack or defect.