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The search for causes of antisocial personality disorder gives rise to the usual debate between nature and nurture. Studies have found that insufficient bonding between infants and mothers is a strong indicator for ASP and that people with ASP often come from abusive or impoverished home environments. But increasingly, research...
How can the disorder be treated? Though certain medications, like Depakote, curb individual symptoms like aggression and impulsiveness, there have been no drug trials specifically for ASP. Fonagy claims intensive psychotherapy and parent training can help. But researchers say that signs of ASP often show up by age four or...
As it headed into the last week before Christmas vacation, Columbine High School was enjoying its first full month without a single warning or suicide or other incident related to the April 20 killing of 12 students and a teacher. School life was returning to some semblance of normal. But...
DeAngelis remains fiercely optimistic. "There have been so many reasons for teachers to quit, for students to quit, for parents to be afraid to send their students here," he says. "But this is an outstanding high school." There was some relief at Columbine when authorities quickly arrested Michael Ian Campbell...
Or perhaps it is just that his protagonist, persistent Everyloser Charlie Brown, has for nearly 50 years appeared to suffer from seasonal affective disorder. Before Peanuts made its debut in 1950, one wouldn't generally think of pop-cultural children--maybe not children, period--as having psyches, much less diagnoses...