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Speaking to a crowd of 500 people last night in Sanders Theatre, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a leading expert and author in the field of mood disorders, discussed the alarming prevalence of depression among university students...
...event will include a series of workshops and will kick off with a keynote speech by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, a nationally known psychiatrist and author who wrote Night Falls Fast and An Unquiet Mind...
Luckily, there are recognizable warning signs, many experts agree. Ninety percent of suicidal teens are depressed, and depression tends to cause certain types of behavioral changes. "There's no one symptom that's going to leap out to a parent," says Kay Redfield Jamison, professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the author of Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide. "It's rather a whole cluster of changes in behavior and mood and sleep and eating patterns and energy levels." Professionals tell parents to look for dramatic changes in behavior or appearance, changes in weight, changes...
Despite this very real threat during the teen years, many families are loath to discuss the topic with their kids. "There's this notion about depression, and certainly about suicide, that if you ask or mention the subject, you're going to make it happen," says Jamison. Quite the contrary, she says; talking with a son or daughter about dark feelings will help assuage the sense of hopelessness the child may have...
...Ingalls had a tremendous impact on Sanskrit and Indology in this country and was one of the last scholars who truly controlled the whole vast field," said Jamison, who is also head tutor and director of graduate studies...