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The Case Against Wilhelm Reich, Part 1 2008-04-13 07:00:00 Wilhelm Reich always had a problem with authority figures as the lengthy FBI file on him tends to demonstrate. It was in 2000 when the FBI released 789 pages of the extensive file that had been built up on Reich...
"Supernatural Hybrid" Arrested In Sexual Assault Case 2008-04-15 07:00:00 A 19-year old Pennsylvania man who convinced a 15-year old girl that he was a vampire/werewolf hybrid has been arrested for corruption of a minor. Kristian Allen Carl turned himself in to Schuylkill County authorities after admitting to having consensual... Read more:Supernatural
, Hybrid
, Sexual
, Assault
The Children of War 2008-04-17 07:00:00 A study focusing on the psychosocial effects chronic warfare among refugee children in Southern Darfur is presented in a recent issue of Omega. A sample of 331 children (aged 6-17) from three refugee camps were selected to be part of... Read more:Children
The Case Against Wilhelm Reich, Part 2 2008-04-20 07:00:00 It was on May 26, 1947 when an article by freelance writer Mildred Brady was published in The New Republic. Titled "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich", Brady's somewhat shrill article was subtitled "The man who blames both neuroses and...
"Devout Christians" Kill Children as Part of Exorcism 2008-04-22 07:00:00 It was on March 29 of this year when residents of Bangwe township in Blantyre, Malawi learned that two local women had allegedly burned two children to death to exorcise them of witchcraft demons. Agnes Kamanga Gadama, and her sister... Read more:Christians
, Children
, Exorcism
Ten Years After Traumatic Brain Injury 2008-04-24 09:16:00 A research study published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society presents the results of a 10-year study examining the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Previous research investigating long-term has yielded mixed... Read more:Years
, Brain
, Injury
The Beast Within 2008-04-27 07:00:00 It was in the autumn of 1572, following a rash of animal attacks in the woods near Dole, France, that the local peasants were authorized to seek out the werewolf assumed to be responsible. There were few actual sightings of... Read more:Beast
Mother Convicted In Munchausen Syndrome Case 2008-04-29 07:00:00 A Harris County jury has convicted a Texas woman accused of subjecting her young son to at least two unnecessary surgeries. Laurie Williamson, 44, was convicted Thursday of injury to a child in connection with the surgeries for implantation of... Read more:Convicted
, Syndrome
Is There a Link Between Brain Injury and Psychiatric Problems? 2008-05-01 07:00:00 An interesting analysis in the December 2007 issue of BrainInjury
looks at the role of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) in the development of severe, long-term psychiatric disorders. While a clear causal link remains unclear, the authors found that psychiatric...
The Mercury Mavens 2008-05-04 07:00:00 George Washington had the finest medical care available. Unfortunately, given the primitive medicine of the era, that wasn't nearly enough to save him. While it is probably unlikely that he would have survived his final illness, the aggressive treatment that... Read more:Mercury
How Prevalent is Body Dysmorphic Disorder? 2008-05-08 07:00:00 Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a mental disorder involving excessive preoccupation with imagined or minor bodily imperfections. It has been linked to OCD-spectrum disorders and can manifest itself in s range of ways including anorexia nervosa, substance abuse and suicide.... Read more:Prevalent
When the Martians Invaded 2008-05-11 07:00:00 It was meant to be a special Halloween night episode of the American radio program, Mercury Theatre on the Air. Directed by 23-year old Orson Welles, the program was an adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel The War of the...
Homeless Woman Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity in Fatal Fire 2008-05-13 07:00:00 A homeless woman charged with starting an arson fire that killed four people in a Chicago apartment building last year was found not guilty Friday by reason of insanity. Mary Smith, aged 51, had been accused of starting debris on... Read more:Guilty
, Reason
, Fatal
What Depressive Symptoms and Disorders Are Linked to Adolescent Suicide? 2008-05-15 07:00:00 A study reported in the April 2008 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders examines the role of depressive symptoms and disorders as potential predictors of suicidal behaviour in adolescents. The authors used a representative sample of 2464 Norwegian school... Read more:Adolescent
, Suicide
Is There a Stockholm Syndrome? 2008-05-18 07:00:00 On August 23, 1973, an escaped felon named Jan Erik Olsson walked into the Kreditbanken in central Stockholm
and attempted to rob it at gunpoint. When Stockholm police arrived on the scene, Olsson opened fire and injured one policeman before... Read more:Syndrome
HIV Dementia Epidemic in Uganda 2008-05-20 07:00:00 A recently released study has showen that 465,000 HIV-positive people in Uganda
are experiencing symptoms of dementia, including memory loss, learning problems and behavioural disabilities. The researchers found that dementia symptoms were more prevalent in older adults.“If the rate we...
The Great Lisbon Earthquake 2008-05-25 07:00:00 It was one of the most destructive earthquakes on record and, quite possibly, changed the course of European history. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the North Atlantic about 200 kilometers southwest of the Portuguese coast and geologists now... Read more:Great
, Lisbon
, Earthquake
English Neurology Patient Detained in Polish Psychiatric Hospital 2008-05-27 07:00:00 A former salesman and resident of Lancashire has been detained in a psychiatric hospital in Poland after being discovered wandering the streets of Warsaw. Matthew Evans, aged 49, is in the advanced stages of Huntington's disease, a genetic neurological disorder... Read more:English
, Neurology
, Detained
, Polish
Intimate Partner Violence in Pregnancy 2008-05-29 07:00:00 A recent issue of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology presents the results of a study examing intimate partner violence (IPV) in pregnancy. Previous studies have shown that homicide may be the most common cause of maternal death. Women who are both... Read more:Partner
, Violence
, Pregnancy
The Suicide Song 2008-06-01 07:00:00 It all began in 1933 when a Hungarian composer named Reszo Servess first wrote the melancholy classic, Gloomy Sunday. Born in Hungary in 1899, Servess was a largely self-taught musician with little to show for his career as a songwriter.... Read more:Suicide
The Politics of Gender Identity Disorder 2008-06-03 07:00:00 Gender Identity Disorder (GID) is a clinical term referring to a persistent inability to accept one's own gender. Diagnostic criteria include: a persistent and strong cross-gender identification as well as a strong persistent discomfort about ones's assigned sex (gender dysphoria)....
Violent Deaths in the United States 2008-06-05 07:00:00 A report in a recent issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report summarizes data from CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) concerning violent deaths from 16 U.S. states for 2005. Results are reported by sex, age group, race/ethnicity,... Read more:United
, States
Lincoln’s Avenger 2008-06-08 07:00:00 The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
on April 14, 1865 shocked the nation and sparked an intense manhunt for his killer. A detachment of twenty-five Union soldiers led by Lieutenant Edward Doherty pursued John Wilkes Booth and fellow fugitive David... Read more:Avenger
John Hinckley's Doctors Seeking Easing of Restrictions 2008-06-10 07:00:00 The medical team overseeing treatment for John W. Hinckley Jr. have petitioned for an easing on his current restrictions including obtaining a driver's license, spending more unsupervised time in the community and having extend visits to his mother's home in... Read more:Doctors
, Seeking
, Restrictions
How Prevalent is Physician Suicide? 2008-06-12 07:00:00 An essay in a recent issue of Annals of Family Medicine examines the complex issues surrounding physician suicide. Best estimates place the number of physician suicides in the United States at 250 per year. The essay's author expresses her personal... Read more:Prevalent
, Physician
, Suicide
Pleasing Yourself 2008-06-15 07:00:00 I remember a few years back attending a meeting and hearing sex therapist and media figure, Sue Johanson give a talk on sexuality. At one point, she had us in stitches by saying, “Surveys show that 97% of men reported... Read more:Yourself
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