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...senior in high school, Kay Redfield Jamison spent her days contemplating killing herself. At age 28, after years of debilitating depression, she overdosed on lithium in a suicide attempt that landed her in a coma. Last night, Jamison, now a Johns Hopkins Medical School psychiatry professor specializing in bipolar disorder, reflected on her own struggles with manic depression. She told a crowd of mostly students that the widespread reluctance to come forward with mental health issues is a major public health problem. “Such privacy and reticence can kill,” she said, noting that many people...
...incoming train repeatedly, but it was an express traveling at nearly 40 mph - he never had a chance. Though he managed to protect the woman, who survived with a broken pelvis, Miyamoto was struck full by the train. He suffered a broken skull and would linger in a coma for nearly a week before dying on Feb. 12, leaving behind a wife and a 20-year...
...certain frequencies of oscillation in the electroencephalograph (EEG). These brain waves consist of loops of activation between the cortex (the wrinkled surface of the brain) and the thalamus (the cluster of hubs at the center that serve as input-output relay stations). Large, slow, regular waves signal a coma, anesthesia or a dreamless sleep; smaller, faster, spikier ones correspond to being awake and alert. These waves are not like the useless hum from a noisy appliance but may allow consciousness to do its job in the brain. They may bind the activity in far-flung regions (one for color, another...
...Olmert, whom they perceive as weak and shifty. Nor is America as obedient to Israel's demands as it was when Sharon was giving bear hugs at the White House. Sharon could be forgiven for thinking that without his leadership, the Israeli body politic had also lapsed into a coma...
...Many Israelis miss their strongman, but Sharon, in his coma, has outlived his own legacy. His plan to unilaterally redraw Israel's borders heedless of Palestinian wishes has proven a failure; rockets are still spewing out of Gaza. Because of Sharon, Israel is also less secure on its northern front. Already burned by an 18-year occupation of Lebanon, Sharon would probably have refrained from Olmert's blundering all-out attack last summer. But it was on Sharon's watch that Hizballah built up its defenses and smuggled missiles from Iran and Syria. Sharon might not recognize the country...