Tag: mental health
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What's the Latest Development? While psychotherapy has become more evidence-driven since the days of Freud, some therapists lament a national healthcare system which restricts access to the latest and most effective talking cures. In Perspectives on Psychological Science, two psychotherapists ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? During legislative negotiations following the Virginia Tech school shooting in 2007, the N.R.A. won concessions allowing the mentally ill to eventually reclaim their right to purchase guns. It seems the stipulation was intended for veterans who, because of mental ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? In a new book, The Psychopath Test, British journalist Jon Ronson (otherwise known as the author of the bestselling The Men Who Stare At Goats) talks to psychologist Robert Hare about his psychopathy checklist and examines its impact. One of the reasons he decided ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Executive editor of the New York Times, Biller Keller felt like he had handed his daughter a pipe of crystal meth after allowing her to create a Facebook profile. While Keller claims his professional ambitions preclude him from being a Luddite, he comes out against ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Published in the journal Gastroenterology, a study on the relationship between gut bacteria and brain chemistry in mice has found the two are related in surprising ways. Disrupting the normal gut flora of the mice led to a change in the animals' behavior, making ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? A joint study conducted by psychologists and poverty researchers at the University of Madison-Wisconsin and Harvard University has found that: "Poverty is a type of pervasive experience that is likely to influence biobehavioral processes because children developing ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Two electrical treatments used to stimulate the memory of Alzheimer's patients are currently being tested: deep-brain stimulation and transcranial magnetic stimulation. "In deep brain stimulation, electrical pulses are delivered to a dysfunctional part of the brain ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Spontaneous crowds of flag-waving and fist-pumping Americans gathered in New York and Washington D.C. last week to celebrate the killing of Osama bin Laden, and despite the moral questions posed by the macabre rejoicing, feelings of justice and catharsis were said ... Read More
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What's the Latest Development? Katherine Schlaerth, an associate professor emeritus at the U.S.C. School of Medicine, sees patients at several Southern California locations. One frustrating patient whose visits she dreaded—a retired field worker with poorly controlled diabetes and hypertension ... Read More
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What's the Most Recent Development? Researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies began their experiment by taking skin cells from schizophrenic patients and reprogramming them into stem cells capable of giving rise to any type of tissue. They then coaxed those cells to ... Read More
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