P. Murali Doraiswamy - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org Committed to Creating a Peaceful, Just, Sustainable, Healthy, and Joyful World. Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:53:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://choprafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-CF-Favicon-2-32x32.png P. Murali Doraiswamy - The Chopra Foundation https://choprafoundation.org 32 32 A Better Way to Approach Pain, and America's Pain-Pill Epidemic https://choprafoundation.org/health/a-better-way-to-approach-pain-and-americas-pain-pill-epidemic/ Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:53:20 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=39022 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina You may have noticed headlines about the rise of prescription drugs as a major cause of addiction and death by overdose. Pain pills are overshadowed by illegal drugs like heroin and their dangers masked by a certain air […]

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]]> Sleep: A mystery at the crossroads of neuroscience (Part 2) https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/#respond Tue, 14 Jan 2014 00:54:58 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38398 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina   In the last post we saw how essential sleep is for the physiological needs of  almost all animals, but sleep would seem to be a poor survival trait as far as evolution goes.  Because […]

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]]> https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-2/feed/ 0 Sleep: A mystery at the crossroads of neuroscience (Part 1) https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-1/ https://choprafoundation.org/other/sleep-a-mystery-at-the-crossroads-of-neuroscience-part-1/#respond Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:53:24 +0000 https://choprafoundation.org/?p=38134 By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, P. Murali Doraiswamy, MBBS, FRCP, Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina Sleep crops up in unexpected places medically, as in the recent finding that for people suffering from bouts of depression, irregular sleep is often the first sign of an attack, and conversely, getting a good […]

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