A class of enzymes first discovered by their ability to bind labelled penicillin.
Users report that Khat intake results in increased energy levels and alertness, improves self-esteem, creates a sensation of elation, enhances imaginative ability and the capacity to associate ideas, and improves the ability to communicate.
All this would be as nothing had Powell not been, admittedly much aided by Pressburger, a film-maker of great technical and imaginative ability.
I'm interested in the central paradox that we are finite, material, organic, biological beings with a finite time/space experience and yet we have this imaginative ability to overcome the horizons of our physical limitation through mental and imaginative activity; an inherent contradiction, but one that is eternally engaging.
Each relies on an understanding of the way the world works, coupled with the imaginative ability to invent new or alternative explanations - and even other worlds.
A crucial part of this process consists in a form of imaginative variation (in which most psychiatrists, though unknowingly, engage).
This is not a very well defined notion since it depends on the imaginative abilities of individuals, mostly in normal health, who have never personally experienced moderate or severe health problems.
Of the play's many stylistic and narrative accomplishments, the most profound is its ability to engineer a sort of imaginative detachment that lets us reconnect to the bittersweet thrill of existence.
They don't even know half the time they're learning soccer". The class is mostly made up of a series of imaginative games that involve any combination of superheroes, dragons and spaceships.
It may very well have been his imaginative abilities that for a while made Sacks a little suspect in the drier spheres of science.
Raymont argues that mnemic, recognitional and imaginative abilities neither separately nor conjointly amount to knowing of what it is like to have a particular kind of experience.
