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#Lobotomy
An examination of medical trends: the bat-shit crazy history of lobotomy
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American jails have become the new mental asylums – and you're paying the bill
The man running the largest mental health institution in the United States is not a doctor. He did not major in psychiatry, nor did he spend his formative years studying bipolar disorder or working with schizophrenics.
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Immediate care center in Louisville called "only one of its kind"
A new walk-in immediate care center for patients who need help with mental health issues is staying very busy, according to its founder and owner psychiatrist Ora Frankel. Frankel opened The Couch at 2415 Lime Kiln Lane in mid-January and she says the response has been bigger than she expected, showing the great need for additional mental health treatment.
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Before Brief, Deadly Spree, Elliot Roger's troubled life began at age 8
Before Elliot O. Rodger killed six people and took his own life in Isla Vista, Calif., his mental health and increasingly withdrawn behavior worried his parents and others.
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What It's Like to Deliver Bad News for a Living
For management consultants, oncologists, first responders, and others who have to do it, the task can exact a heavy emotional toll.
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What is it like to be schizophrenic?
CNN's Anderson Cooper tries to go through a normal day using a schizophrenia simulator.
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Speaking Up: Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking
About 3 in 4 people suffer from speech anxiety, and for many, their fear is so great that it could derail their careers.
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San Quentin plans psychiatric hospital for death row inmates
Under court pressure to improve psychiatric care for deeply disturbed death row inmates, state officials are moving quickly to open a 40-bed hospital at San Quentin prison to house them. The court-appointed monitor of mental health care in California's prison system reported to judges Tuesday that about three dozen men on death row are so mentally ill that they require inpatient care, with 24-hour nursing.
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Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides'
The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides, according to figures from UK researchers. A study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, showed "suicides have risen markedly". The research group said some deaths may have been avoidable as some countries showed no increase in suicide rate.
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Why (Some) Psychopaths Make Great CEOs
British journalist Jon Ronson immersed himself in the world of mental health diagnosis and criminal profiling to understand what makes some people psychopaths — dangerous predators who lack the behavioral controls and tender feelings the rest of us take for granted. Among the things he learned while researching his new book, “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry”: the incidence of psychopathy among CEOs is about 4 percent, four times what it is in the population at large.
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Put down the smart drugs – cognitive enhancement is ethically risky business
Cognitive performance enhancers promise to deliver a better version of ourselves: smarter, more alert and more mentally agile. But what if such enhancement was no longer a personal choice but a socially and legally enforced responsibility? In the final installment of Biology and Blame, Nicole A Vincent and Emma A. Jane explore the risks of normalizing this emerging trend.
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Why Chicago’s MasterChef Star Killed Himself
Josh Marks was a rising culinary talent. But then, suddenly, horribly, his life spiraled out of control.
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The Mad-Genius Paradox: Creativity Could Be Tied To Both Sanity And Madness
Researchers love to argue about whether there's a link between creativity and mental illness. What if both camps are right?
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Behind the yellow door, a man’s mental illness worsens
His family wants to help but he can’t be involuntarily committed. They can only hope he gets better — or worse.
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Blood test breakthrough in search for Alzheimer's cure
A blood test to detect which people with failing memories will go on to develop Alzheimer's disease has been developed by British scientists, who hope it may prove a breakthrough in the hunt for a cure.
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Gut feeling: How intestinal bacteria may influence our moods
Growing evidence that gut bacteria affect mood and behaviour has researchers investigating just how much power these tiny microbes wield over our mental health. Now, scientists are starting to come up with answers.
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11 first responders have killed themselves in the past ten weeks
In the past 10 weeks, 11 Canadians whose job it is to confront the most violent, traumatic situations have killed themselves.
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Mountie who witnessed bus beheading dies by suicide
After a long struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, a Mountie who witnessed the beheading of a Greyhound bus passenger has taken his own life. A family member has confirmed that recently-retired RCMP corporal Ken Barker died by suicide last weekend. A total of 13 Canadian first responders have taken their own lives over the past 10 weeks.
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The End of ‘Genius’
The idea of the solitary creator is a myth that has outlived its usefulness.
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Study: More Than Half Of The People Executed In The United States Have A Severe Mental Illness
A majority of the 100 executed inmates examined in a new study by three legal researchers had “a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder or psychosis.” Yet, because of an oddity in the Supreme Court’s death penalty cases, it is typically constitutional under existing precedents to execute people with these illnesses.
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