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...come a long way from Freud's couch. The big breakthrough arrived in the late 1980s with the advent of safer and more widely effective drugs, like Prozac. According to Dr. Bruce Cohen of Harvard's McLean Hospital, we're on the cusp of a new era in treatment as the search for a single magic pill for depression gives way to a broad spectrum of therapies...
...problem is the death of cells in the brain that produce the neurotransmitter dopamine. While dopamine is crucial to the control of movement, it's probably a major factor in mood as well. "Depression almost certainly has multiple causes that produce similar symptoms," observes Dr. Bruce Cohen, president of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass...
...happens, more and more researchers are looking for new ways to treat the conditions--exploring both genetic and environmental roots, seeking both therapeutic and chemical cures. And well they might. "The social costs of personality disorders are huge," says Dr. John Gunderson, director of the Personality Disorders Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. "These people are involved in so many of society's ills--divorce, child abuse, violence. The problem is tremendous...
...slowed the technology's growth. This year will go down as the worst in history for information technology, with sales falling 2.3% after averaging a 12% annual growth rate over the past 20 years. Data-mining companies have been among the hardest hit in recent years: MicroStrategy, based in McLean, Va., rode the near messianic predictions of founder and CEO Michael Saylor from a market capitalization of $1 billion to more than $20 billion and back again in less than 18 months...
EXECUTED. MIR AIMAL KASI, 38, Pakistani extremist convicted of the 1993 murders of two CIA employees near its headquarters in McLean, Va., in a move that sparked fear among some U.S. officials of terrorist reprisals; by lethal injection; in Jarratt, Va. He went to death chanting, "There is no god but Allah...