Chronicling close to two decades in the bird's — and its fan club's — eventful life, "The Legend of Pale Male" is a sugary, aggressively anthropomorphized story of one avian interloper and a whole bunch of human obsessives.
Even a GWAS performed for presumably more complex phenotypes such as canine compulsive disorder (similar to human obsessive-compulsive disorder) has rendered promising results in a single genomic region [10].
In humans, Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD) is characterized by repetitive behavior, performed through rigid rituals.
One explanation for low savings is flawed humans: obsessive consumption and hyperbolic discounting.
Others realised that that was exactly the point: the male human's obsessive, unending love affair with his car.
This is a persuasion tactic known as commitment to consistency, which is plays on human's "obsessive desire to be (and appear to be) consistent with what we have already done" (Cialdini 50-51).
Furthermore, ketamine treatment did not increase interstitial GABA levels in an MR spectroscopy study in healthy humans [33], however, more recent studies showed increases in humans with obsessive compulsive disorder [34] and major depressive disorder [35].
And in many ways, Dirty Dancing was an astonishingly political film: Baby was a human-rights obsessive, named after the first woman in the US cabinet, craving to join the Peace Corps.
Dogs with compulsive behaviors respond to the same medications as do humans with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
But I think I'm a better balanced, less obsessive human being than I was 20 years ago".
Publishers Weekly: "...Wallace's genuine and infectious love for obsessive human endeavors as disparate as pro tennis, analytic philosophy, and pure math.
