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#Yale #Normal #neuroscientists  #Study  #Human  Don’t you wish everyone would just act more normal, like you? I know I do. But normal is a relative state that depends on time, place, and circumstance. There’s no one right way to be a human, and that applies to mental as well as physical states. That’s why neuroscientists are advocating for more recognition of the bizarre normalcy of all complex humans in psychiatry—an argument that can help all of us take a bigger-picture view. A new study published in Trends in Cognitive Science on Feb. 20 debunks the myth of normalcy in people and animals. “ The Myth of Optimality in Clinical Neuroscience ” (paywall), by Avram Holmes and Lauren Patrick of the Yale University psychology department, uses evolution to show that uniformity in our brains is totally abnormal. What’s much more common in life, during its  3.5 billion years of evolving existence on Earth , is range and change, variety in and among creatures and ha...

#Yale #ShawnPleasants #KimHershman #Koreatown #Housing #Homeless LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- After several years of living on the streets of Los Angeles, an Ivy League graduate's life is back on track thanks to a woman who he describes as an "angel." California's homeless crisis has touched people from all different backgrounds, but Shawn Pleasants' case is quite unique. "It's not someone else's problem. It's a problem we all could face," Pleasants said. The 52-year-old was a high school valedictorian, got into Harvard but chose to go to Yale and major in economics, worked on Wall Street and started his own business before it all fell apart and he ended up homeless in Koreatown, where he lived for six years. Kim Hershman, could not sit still after hearing about Pleasants' story in September, especially after learning his encampment was mere miles away from her home. The Hollywood attorney, also a Yale graduate, began to formul...