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The Death Treatment
When should people with a non-terminal illness be helped to die? By Rachel Aviv.
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Switching on happy memories ‘perks up’ stressed mice
Neuroscientists find that artificially stimulating a positive memory can cause mice to snap out of depression-like behaviour.
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Hooking up: zapping your brain
Meet the scientists and DIY enthusiasts firing electricity to their brains to see what happens next. By Lucy Jones.
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The Talented Mr. Khater
In 2011 Callie Quinn moved from Austin to Chile to experience a new way of life. Then she met a charming fellow foreigner—and almost lost everything.
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Return of Electro-Cures Exposes Psychiatry’s Weakness
TMS and other ‘electro-cures’ for depression are becoming popular in spite of limited demonstrated effectiveness
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Psychosurgeons Use Lasers to Burn Away Mental Illness
This is a lobotomy updated for the 21st century: burning away highly specified parts of the brain to treat mental illnesses.
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‘I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium’
My 20-year struggle with bipolar disorder.
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Tell It About Your Mother
Can brain-scanning help save Freudian psychoanalysis?
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Antipsychotics Too Often Prescribed For Aggression In Children
Drugs intended to treat psychosis are also used to treat behavioral problems in children with ADHD. Less risky behavioral treatments and medications should be the first choice, researchers say.
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Commonly prescribed drugs affect decisions to harm oneself and others
Healthy people given the serotonin-enhancing antidepressant citalopram were willing to pay almost twice as much to prevent harm to themselves or others than those given placebo drugs in a moral decision-making experiment...
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Healing a Wounded Sense of Morality
Many veterans are suffering from a condition similar to, but distinct from, PTSD: moral injury, in which the ethical transgressions of war can leave service members traumatized. By Maggie Puniewska.
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Wil Wheaton for Project UROK
This is a video from Wil Wheaton, (@wilw) an actor, writer and king of the internet . Wil is best known for his work on Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory. Wil talks about his struggles with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.
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Can meditation help prevent the effects of ageing?
Can meditation really slow down the effects of age? One Nobel Prize-winner is finding the scientific in the spiritual, writes Jo Marchant.
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The Definition of Insanity is...
I hear this every week, sometimes twice a day: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." No, it isn't.
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Scientists may have found a way to make you forget that you’re addicted to meth
In the cult-classic “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” Jim Carrey’s character tries to overcome a painful breakup by erasing his memory. Eleven years later after the science fiction flick debuted, science may be finally catching up. Researchers in Florida have discovered a method of wiping away memories, using a specific chemical instead of the fearsome machine featured in the film... By Michael E. Miller.
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Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?
Psychologists now believe fledgling psychopaths can be identified as early as kindergarten. The hope is to teach these children empathy before it’s too late. By Jennifer Kahn.
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Multiple Personality -- Is It Mental Disorder, Myth, or Metaphor?
Why does MPD keep making its periodic comebacks, despite not being a verifiable or clinically useful mental disorder? My best guess is that the labeling of 'alters' offers an appealing and dramatic metaphor, an idiom of distress.
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Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused, ambiguous, and logically confused words and phrases
The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion. To this end, we present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats.
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“Brainy” mice raise hope of better treatments for cognitive disorders
Researchers have created unusually intelligent mice by altering a single gene and as a result the mice were also less likely to feel anxiety or recall fear.
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Rewriting The History of Autism
How newly discovered documents show that the work of a crucial autism researcher was ignored, perpetuating misinformation about autistic children. By Elon Green.
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