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Antipsychotic studies[edit]

in the text of this study http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006322310011716 it states "Fourth, our experimental design does not address whether the APD-induced morphological changes are reversible, a question of significant theoretical and practical relevance. Drug withdrawal studies to address this possibility are currently underway." That was in 2011. have these drug withdrawal studies been completed and published since then? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.247.60.254 (talk) 19:23, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just typed the last author's name into PubMed and got back a likely looking result: [1] (By convention, the last name on biological science papers is usually the person running the lab). If you want to dive deeper than that, you really can use the little envelope link next to Shitij Kapur's name and ask him directly, though it may be useful to make a few more PubMed searches first to get some background. Wnt (talk) 21:24, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sky cloudier near ocean[edit]

Does the sky near the ocean have more clouds than more inland, on the average? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 21:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I assume one realizes there are hundreds of thousands of miles of coastline? Condensation will occur when warm humid air blows into cool areas, such as that above land in the Fall when the water is still retaining the Summer's heat in relation to the land. But the question as stated is too vague for a yes/no response. μηδείς (talk) 22:48, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This site has 25 years of global averaged cloud cover. Between that and the image at our cloud cover article (an average of October 2009), I observe that, broadly, cloud cover over the ocean tends to be at least as heavy as cloud cover shortly inland from that location. This does not hold everywhere, but is at least a rough trend. Note particularly how much of the coastline in the Oct 2009 image on Wikipedia is dark and sharply defined, indicating relatively low cloud cover. On the other hand, the majority of the North American and European coasts are hard to distinguish -- there's not much of that trend in those locations. In the area of Kenya, it even appears to be the opposite -- the coastline is apparent, but the sea is darker. — Lomn 22:52, 26 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

Thank you. It is not quite like I imagined it might be. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 02:06, 27 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]