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...comfort that, according to the authors, parents don't have long to get it right. By the time a child is six, they argue, experiences have programmed his brain for happiness or depression (though they do go on to suggest that it's possible to tinker with this programming later on). But while it may make some parents feel guilty, Raising an Optimistic Child is not, ultimately, a gloomy book. Its message that the power to lay the foundations for fulfillment rests with parents rather than genes or circumstance will be embraced by many as not only uplifting but life...
...depression. They accept the more dire estimates about the illness's prevalence - 1 in 4 people in those countries. Such numbers bemuse the skeptics, who suspect medicos who quote them of links to the drug industry. But Murray and Fortinberry generally disparage antidepressants. They do believe that a depressed brain is different - physically - to a healthy one, but not as a result of some spontaneous chemical abnormality. Rather, they back the theory that emotional stress in the early years inhibits proper development of certain areas of the brain - specifically, it causes malfunctions within the amygdala and the hippocampus that make...
...Raising an Optimistic Child guides parents on how to depression-proof their child's brain. It's not enough to avoid stuffing up in obvious ways - they have to do a lot of things right. The child who forms a close relationship with his parents will grow up to form close relationships with others, and that, the authors contend, is the secret to happiness. "It's kind of dead simple," says Murray. "Human beings are relationship-forming animals. That's what we are. All our genetics gear us toward solid, supportive relationships. It is through these that we survive." Just...
...From there, it was just a short step to making Nike-like things for a real museum. As opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some of which have long extensions of human hair, speak to the eye and not just the brain. That's another way of saying they are weirdly beautiful. In a world of factory-fabricated artworks, craftsmanship long ago ceased to be an end in itself for most artists, including Jungen. All the same, in his meticulous rubber taxidermy--all that filleting and restitching of the shoes...
...come home from Iraq seeking treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, Brooke in San Antonio and veterans' hospitals nationwide. Three years since the start of the war, the toll of seriously wounded from Iraq exceeds 7,600--men and women without limbs, with horrid burns, with brain damage, all of them dealing with the psychological scars of war. Braddock is just one of at least 345 who have had amputations--a higher rate per injury than in any other modern U.S. war. Most survivors, like Braddock, are left to pick up the pieces of their lives...