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...Morgenstern ’03 and William P. Chen ’06, according to Facebook spokeswoman Brandee D. Barker. In February, every member’s first gift is free and each subsequent present costs a dollar. Net proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, an organization that raises funds for breast cancer research. Breast cancer awareness groups are the most prevalent cause-related group on Facebook. According to Barker, over 1.4 million users are affiliated with some breast cancer cause. “When we were choosing a charity, we turned to our users...
...you’re severely depressed, running electric currents through your brain to induce a seizure might be the only cure. Shocked? FM was too when the Harvard Mental Health Letter reported this month that Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe depression when drugs and psychotherapy have failed. In ECT, an electric current runs through the brain, inducing a seizure that lasts about 30 seconds. The patient is anesthetized and given muscle-relaxant to prevent injury. ECT often causes memory loss during the 2-3 week treatment period, but most patients completely recover and some have stronger...
Smartly crafted, impeccably acted, The Lives of Others packs a subtle punch, from its creepy first images to its poignant finale. It's a cure not just for Ostalgie but for any moviegoers' where-are-all-the-good-films-this-year? blues...
...This was an early instalment in Rebekah Beddoe's calamitous encounter with psychiatry, which she recounts in Dying for a Cure (Random House; 346 pages). While the memoir focuses on how psychotropic drugs sent her mad during the early 2000s, Beddoe's account of her dealings with the eminent Melbourne psychiatrist she calls "Max Braydle" also shines an unflattering light on the talking component of the profession. "Terrible," says Jon Jureidini, head of psychological medicine at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, of the methods Beddoe ascribes to Braydle. "Sadly, people who read this book will think that...
...radio is in need of something. What that “something” concretely means is anyone’s guess.This column won’t claim to divine the future of radio. The myriad problems with radio are far too numerous to be remedied by one miracle cure-all. But there continues to be new ways that radio can retain its ostensible purpose—to be both reflections and creators of the public’s taste in music. Internet radio allows still-untapped possibilities to disseminate once hard-to-come-by musical events, as evidenced...