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The medications that change who we are
They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud.
Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships.
- Zaria Gorvett
- BBC
It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains.
Why?
And should there be warnings on packets?
“Patient Five” was in his late 50s when a trip to the doctors changed his life.
He had diabetes, and he had signed up for a study to see if taking a “statin” – a kind of cholesterol-lowering drug – might help. So far, so…