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...Drug Services for the month of July, although the UHS Center for Wellness will remain open. He stressed that "nothing is official and nothing has been announced" at this point in time, and also said that services that might otherwise be provided by OSAPR will be addressed by UHS Mental Health Services over the summer, as well as Harvard University Police Department...
...serotonin-transporter gene called 5-HTTLPR - may not be associated with an elevated risk for depression, as many researchers had believed. "Knowing whether or not you have this gene is irrelevant," says the study's co-author Kathleen Merikangas, a genetic epidemiologist at the National Institute of Mental Health, who adds that future studies of genetic risk factors for depression should broaden their scope and consider the interactions of many genes rather than the actions of just...
...discovery by Duke psychologist Avshalom Caspi of a "depression gene," which was among the first to be associated with mental illness - a notably difficult class of diseases to pin down, genetically speaking - inspired dozens of similar studies. While many researchers had suspected that 5-HTTLPR played a significant role in depression risk, Caspi was the first to establish an association by studying depressed people who had also experienced a stressful life event, such as the death of a child or sudden unemployment. What Caspi's 2003 epidemiological study, published in Science, found was that people with one or two copies...
...sympathetic nervous-system activity during sleep: faster heart rate and the release of stress chemicals. Understanding why nightmares recur and how REM sleep facilitates emotional processing - or hinders it, when nightmares take place and perpetuate the physical stress symptoms - may eventually provide clues to effective treatments of painful mental disorders. Perhaps, even, by simply addressing sleeping habits, doctors could potentially interrupt the emotional cycle that can lead to suicide. "There is an opportunity for prevention," Bernert says...
...late 2008, Hyundai's U.S. management team began searching for ways to drive around this mental block. The solution was as direct as it was unusual: Hyundai would promise to take back vehicles from buyers who got sacked within one year of their purchases. Tossing a marketing campaign together in just five weeks, Krafcik had ads running on TV by early January, in time for the much watched National Football League playoffs. The offer instantly grabbed headlines across the country. "Give them credit, they made some noise," says Gary Dilts, a senior vice president at auto-research firm J.D. Power...