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You too may be Covered by the ADA
Filed in archive Just Plain Weird by Eric Hanson on July 11, 2006
You too may be Covered by the ADA
Always have a yen for the latest gadget (and if you read this blog regularly, you probably do)? If so, you might be genetically predisposed to doing so, according to a study published in the scientific journal Psychiatric Genetics by researchers from Japan's Yamagata University School of Medicine. The study points proposes that people with a specific form of a cellular enzyme, known as monoamine oxidase A, are more likely to need the stimulation of getting new things - hence the desire to own the latest and greatest toys. Unfortunately, while this discovery sounds like a great excuse to indulge your buying desires when they strike, the research suggests strong parralels between gadget desire and addiction disorders. Maybe some day there will be a gadgets Anonymous?

There's controversy over the announcement, of course - some critics believe that the craving for gadgets is like any other craving: a social urge, not a genetic one. Others think that the desire for the newest gadgets is just an expression of natural human curiousity fed by advertising. It might be a mix of all three, but maybe we can get the government to give us tax write offs for all of the new stuff we buy - or at least get protection under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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