Gray Matters: Addiction as a disease
The following article contains discussions of addiction. Information can be found on the National Institute of Drug Abuse website. Click…
Author Ethan Fisher-Perez
Ethan Fisher-Perez
Ethan Fisher-Perez is a reporter, columnist and the deputy editorial pages editor for The Brown and White.
Gray Matters: Scaring mice for fun?
Coming to Lehigh, some of my top interests were: addiction and personality, mood disorders and learning. I was stupid enough…
Gray matters: The weight of a label
“Mentally ill” is a label that joins the lovely category of things that, despite not being explicitly real, do have…
Gray Matters: Should we take our meds?
Editor’s note: The following article contains discussion of medication usage. Please consult a medical professional concerning decisions related to medication…
Gray Matters: The “irony” of studying feelings
When most people think about studying emotion, they think of psychology, and subsequently, some of the craziest theories of the…
Edit desk: When doing anything feels like doing everything
It’s early December or early May and finals just ended. I’m heading home, preparing myself to participate in the same…
Gray Matters: Serotonin vs. dopamine
People on the internet will watch a video of a dog playing with butterflies, comment, “This gave me serotonin” and…
Gray Matters: Limits of current neural technologies
Imagine, for a moment, a man. While playing a pickup game of soccer with a cast of his most amiable…
Edit desk: Probably still not over it
I wanted to be one of those people, who come college-decision time, rack their brain, weigh their options, make spreadsheets…
Gray Matters: Self-diagnosis is not the problem
Because of their similarity but difference in approach, the fields of neuroscience and psychology often seem to be at odds…