Archive for September, 2008

Listed by most recent articles first.

• Preferred Music Style Is Tied to Personality
  New research from around the world suggests that an individual's favorite music genre is closely linked to his or her personality. Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, has undertaken the largest study so ...
• Keeping My Sanity after Two Layoffs
  As someone who has been laid off twice in the last year, I fancy myself a bit of an authority on this situation. Now that I have been through this multiple times in such ...
• Childhood Stress Raises Allergy Risk
  Children who survive traumatic events are at a higher risk of allergy and asthma, recent research suggests. Researchers in Leipzig, Germany have found that such events directly affect the immune system. Dr. Gunda Herberth and colleagues ...
• Obama on Mental Health Care
  The following statement was provided to Alicia Sparks of Mental Health Notes by Senator Barack Obama's campaign in his bid for the U.S. Presidential election in 2008: Dear Friend, ...
• McCain on Mental Health Care
  The following statement was provided by Senator John McCain to the National Alliance on Mental Illness in response to a questionnaire they sent Senator McCain in his capacity as a candidate for the U.S. Presidency ...
• Mental Health Parity in U.S. Senate Bill s. 3335
  This section is excerpted from the U.S. Senate bill s. 3335 under consideration in the U.S. Senate. SEC. 313. MENTAL HEALTH PARITY. (a) Amendments to ERISA- Section 712 of the Employee ...
• Grief, Grandma’s Way
  By the time she got into her 90s, my grandmother was a wise woman indeed. She was wise about life. She was also wise about death. As the youngest of eight, she had outlived all ...
• Body Image and Reality: Changing Perspectives?
  More than 300 million adults worldwide are overweight, and they're increasingly failing to recognize the problem, a recent survey has found. The data comes from 853 men and 944 women living in Great Britain in ...