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Category Archives: mental disease
Some interesting mental health articles
Manic Spending Puts Bipolar Patients at Risk for Financial Woes Many bipolar people already live in a boom-or-bust financial cycle, independent of the current economy. Spending sprees, after all, are common during manic periods. However, mania can be triggered by … Continue reading
Electric Sheep–a cool online film magazine from the UK
Electric Sheep – Reviews » Blog Archive » MISTER LONELY via kwout Just came across this while i was doing Google blog searches for stuff that i might be able to use for China Film Journal. This is a UK … Continue reading
Report ranks jobs by rates of depression
This report from Business Week this is an excerpt from the above report The lowest rate of depression, 4.3 percent, occurred in the job category that covers engineers, architects and surveyors. Government officials tracked depression within 21 major occupational categories. … Continue reading
Loneliness Is a Molecule: UCLA researchers identify the molecular signature of loneliness
From <a href=”http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Loneliness-Is-a-Molecule-UCLA-8214.aspx“〉UCLA.edu</a>: It is already known that a person’s social environment can affect his or her health, with those who are socially isolated — that is, lonely — suffering from higher mortality than people who are not. Now, in … Continue reading
Wittgenstein’s neurophenomenology
Original link is here J Cole Correspondence to:J ColeClinical Neurophysiology, Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole, BH15 2JB, UK; jonathan@colefamily.org.uk Wittgenstein, despite being considered an analytical philosopher, has been quoted extensively by neurologists like Oliver Sacks. This paper explores how Wittgenstein, … Continue reading
Research Projects I Wish Someone Would Undertake （antidepressants and major life choices)
This is from the personal page of a U Mich professor, Randolph Nesse, MD. Effects of Antidepressants on Major Life Choices Do antidepressants make it more likely that people in difficult life circumstances will just accept the situation, or do … Continue reading
To kill or not to kill
Brain Injury Said to Affect Moral Choices By BENEDICT CAREY Published: March 22, 2007 Damage to an area of the brain behind the forehead, inches behind the eyes, transforms the way people make moral judgments in life-or-death situations, scientists reported … Continue reading
more on rank theory
Interestingly, in this light, submission (and by extension depression) is not complete loss, and still affords the individual some degree of control of the situation. “However, control varies greatly according to the rank of an animal….[and] subordinates are generally more … Continue reading
Rank theory of depression
I had hoped they meant Otto Rank but no they meant just plain old rank. From answers.com: Rank theory is an evolutionary theory of depression, developed by Anthony Stevens and John Price, and proposes that depression promotes the survival of … Continue reading