Word: mental
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...currently popular genetic model of mental disorder has much hearsay but little scientific evidence to support it. Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...
...tragic to me how many students worry without case about their "genetic loading" for the "biochemical imbalances" that supposedly result in depression. The autosuggestive and "self-fulfilling prophecy" powers of the mind are far more relevant to human suffering than genetics. Bad science can be bad for your mental health...
...that alarm is nothing compared to the mental warning bell that went off after a woeful 2-1 Harvard loss...
...film is a fictionized chronicle of several cases of child abuse by Catholic clergy in Newfoundland during the 1960s. Airing in two parts -- Sunday and Monday -- on A&E (check local listings), the graphic drama raises troubling questions about the physical pain experienced by the young boys and the mental agony tormenting their abusers. TIME critic Richard Corliss describes it as "the most compelling, repellent and edifying horror movie of the decade," one with a complex message. The heroes in this film are "small, frightened boys or grown men who need to see righteous revenge achieved for the boys they...
...changes that we have called for may have their costs. But the mental health of Harvard's students is simply too important to be given short shrift. Harvard owes it to students paying $26,000 a year to provide the long-term care necessary to their well-being...