Some bloggers worry about effect on life offline
Amy Sherman recently woke up at 4 a.m. in a panic. Why wasn’t her food blog getting as much traffic as others?
“I daydream about the blog throughout the day. . . . I worry about it at night. I sometimes put as much energy into it as my […]

A Study Ties Loss of a Child to Mental Ills (NY Times, free reg. req’d)
The death of a child not only alters a family forever but also sharply increases the risk that parents will later be hospitalized for a mental illness, researchers are reporting in the largest study to date of parent bereavement and […]

Hitler Psychoanalysis Now Available Online
A rare 1943 document — a psychological analysis of the personality of Adolph Hitler that predicted, among other things, his eventual suicide — is now available on the Cornell Law Library’s Web site, at: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/donovan/hitler/ .
The copyright to the original document — number three of only 30 copies made — was […]

Challenging the Venus and Mars theory
“Do males and females react differently to emotional advertising?” begin the authors of an article in the March 2005 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. While it is commonly accepted that women are more emotional, no solid evidence exists to support this assertion. In fact, the results of the […]

Study: Depression can be treated in seniors
Successful treatment of depression in frail older people may help slow their physical decline, which could help keep them living independently as long as possible, a new study says. The findings suggest that doctors more aggressively identify and treat seniors with depression, an illness that puts people, especially the […]

Depression May Up Risk of Dementia in Men
Men with a history of depression long before the onset of any memory or other cognitive problems have a substantially higher risk of developing dementia, especially Alzheimer’s disease, later in life, a study indicates. This risk is not observed in women.
Dr. Gloria Dal Forno, of University Campus BioMedico […]

Group Calls for Ban of Abbott’s ADD Drug
A 30-year-old Abbott Laboratories Inc. drug for attention deficit disorder poses an unacceptable risk of deadly liver damage and should be banned immediately, a U.S. consumer group said on Thursday.
Abbott sells the drug under the brand name Cylert, and generic companies sell a copycat version known as pemoline. […]

The best way to get teens to learn
Getting kids interested in what they’re learning is an age-old problem that continues to plague teachers and parents. Now, researchers from the University of Leuven in Belgium report in the March/April issue of the journal Child Development, that when teenagers understand that learning helps them attain an intrinsic […]

Quality of mom’s time, not quantity, most important in early infant development
Working mothers in the United States can relax. Their kids might still get into Harvard. A study from researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found no differences in children’s social and intellectual development during the first three years of life between those […]

Quality Time Most Important for Babies
Working mothers with infants at home, take a breath or a sigh of relief. According to a new study, it’s quality of time spent with baby — not quantity — that helps guide a toddler’s social and intellectual development.
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin compared women who didn’t […]

Death of a Child Linked to Emotional Breakdown
The devastating grief parents suffer when they lose a child increases their chances of being hospitalized for a psychiatric disorder, Danish researchers report.
Bereaved mothers are particularly vulnerable, the study found. Their risk of hospitalization is twice as great as that of fathers. And while the mothers’ risk is […]

Retirement communities need to do more to help residents cope with loneliness and depression
Researcher looks at personal and situational characteristics associated with loneliness and depression.
As the nation’s population ages, greater numbers of people are moving into assisted living and other retirement communities. While these facilities offer many advantages to the elderly, a recent research article […]