Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Are you living better or worse because of the increasing role of pharmaceuticals?  Have you noticed that some drugs that promised to increase the quality of life... now give rise to a number of medical, social, ethical and spiritual questions….?

There definitely seem to be brain based and business benefits to some of the chemicals out there...  Research suggests, for instance,  that several well-known drugs can help people beyond their commonly recognized applications: Prozac may increase cooperation at work, and Viagra certainly improves the sex lives for some who feel functionally impaired, and bring those frustrations to the job.

Increasingly questions arise... connected to chemicals we rely on…. Can drugs really offer lasting quality of life as they promise? Who will control access to new drugs that hit the market?  Who’ll pay for these pills?

Then there are questions about the dynamic drug increases, especially  in mind altering medicines… "Do we really live better through chemical additives…? What are the consequences of these for the mind and for business?"

Dr. Peter Kramer, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is the author of the best-selling Listening to Prozac, which offers readers a few surprising offshoots about the popular anti-depressants that now lead millions of employees to remake themselves…

Interested in how anti-depressants work…? Want to know about dopamine, serotonin, and other neuro-transmitters that control moods or add to well-being…?  Then you’ll probably find the information you want in this book. I especially liked case studies the author included to show how patients reacted to Prozac and how people you and I know react.

What do you think…?

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