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Archive for November, 2008

Minding the Media: Body Image in Popular Culture

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Which celeb do you consider curvy?

A) Jessica Biel
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B) Kim Raver
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C) Anna Fari…

First Live Webcam Suicide

Friday, November 21st, 2008

It was bound to happen.

Apparently the world’s first webcam suicide has taken place, on Justin.tv, a video service that allows users to broadcast themselves from …

Dr. Fred Goodwin and The Infinite Mind Ties to Undisclosed Drug Payments

Friday, November 21st, 2008

On May 9, Slate published a rebuke of the independence of an episode of the Infinite Mind, a public radio program on mental health, …

Online Important to Teens, Adults Don’t Understand

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

A new report was released today from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that suggests teenagers today use and value technologies online that …

Nebraska’s Abandoned Kids are Mostly Mentally Ill

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

There’s an even more tragic story behind the news of people traveling from around the country to drop off their unwanted children in Nebraska, since …

FDA Advisors: Stop the Overuse of Atypical Antipsychotics in Children

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

During a routine review of the safety of Johnson & Johnson’s atypical antipsychotic Risperdal and Eli Lilly’s Zyprexa, a panel of experts consulting with the …

Again, Gulf War Syndrome Real

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Although the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs concluded in 2004 that Gulf War Syndrome is a real medical illness (and not purely a psychological one), …

Women: Guarding Against Unhappiness

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Penelope Trunk has an intriguing blog entry today entitled, What women can do when they’re young to be happy later on. I say intriguing, …

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

My colleague Gilles Frydman wrote a great entry today over at e-Patients.net about a new report released this month by the Association for Psychological …

DSM-V: Transparency or Secrecy?

Monday, November 17th, 2008

In a world expecting greater and greater transparency in how important medical and mental health research is conducted, should such transparency extend to the intricate …

ADHD Experts Promote Drugs

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

With the focus on conflicts of interest by U.S. researchers in the spotlight in the past year (due to Sen. Grassley’s continuing investigation into researchers …

How Crazy Are You?

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

That’s what a new BBC2 reality-TV show, “How Mad Are You?” asks 10 participants. Three experts watch them perform a variety of tasks, such as …

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