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You'd think Soutine, with his obsessive delight in flesh, would paint nudes, but no; he painted only one in his whole career, and it's a minor painting.
But thanks to the Web, today's political obsessive can gather more insider poop in a half-hour than his predecessor could in a week.
Indeed, alterations in AVP regulation and secretion are thought to be one possible biochemical abnormality in patients with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) [ 15 16 17 18 ] . This disorder is characterized by sudden, recurrent thoughts or images that intrude into consciousness (obsessions) driving stereotyped acts that the person feels compelled to perform (compulsions) [ 19 ] . Interestingly, patients with OCD show elevated basal levels of AVP in the cerebrospinal fluid and exaggerated plasma levels of AVP in response to hypertonic challenge [ 16 ] . Many patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, both compulsive eating disorders, have abnormal levels of AVP in the cerebrospinal fluid and plasma [ 15 17 ] . Pediatric patients with severe OCD have low levels of AVP in cerebrospinal fluid, while a subgroup of pediatric patients with compulsive checking rituals has elevated AVP levels [ 18 ] . Hence, there are many clinical examples of compulsive behavior associated with a perturbation in the AVP system.
The obsessive travels he's recorded in prose are balanced by a level of stability almost unheard of for a contemporary writer.
Playing an obsessive dedicated to trapping a 40-foot-long snake in the middle of the Amazon, Jon Voight leads a group of unsuspecting documentary filmmakers (Jennifer Lopez, Eric Stoltz, and Ice Cube) to their deaths.
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