Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Kennedy, thousands of Americans believe they are victims of a stealthy epidemic that is draining their physical strength and mental energy. Initially, physicians attributed the mysterious affliction, which often strikes clusters of people, to a mixture of depression, hypochondria and mass hysteria. It has been called the yuppie disease -- because a disproportionate ) number of its victims have been young, white professionals -- chronic mononucleosis or, simply, fatigue syndrome. Hollywood is rumored to be plagued by the disease. Film Director Blake Edwards struggled with it for three years. "Your body starts to collapse," he says. "It was a matter of hell...
...intellectual reserves, producing symptoms that include swollen glands and fever. Its most devastating physical effect is extreme exhaustion. People use similar words to describe the weakness ("It's hard to lift my coffee cup," "It's like an anvil on my chest"). Many sufferers report suicidal depression and mental impairments, such as flawed memory and inability to read...
...mother's return. The researcher watches the child's responses from behind a one-way mirror. Secure children, it was thought, are less upset by the stranger's arrival and are easily comforted when the mother returns. The assumption is that the best gauge of a baby's mental health is a strong maternal bond...
Peptide T, another promising substance for curbing the virus, received mixed reviews. Last December, Neuroscientist Candace Pert of the National Institute of Mental Health reported that the chemical, a synthetic portion of a protein on the AIDS virus that helps it bind to cells, seemed to prevent the virus from entering cells. In May the FDA approved clinical trials, and last week Oncogen, a Seattle biotechnology company, announced that its researchers had confirmed Pert's findings. But Dr. William Haseltine, a virologist at Harvard's Dana Farber Cancer Institute, said neither his laboratory nor six others around the world...
...academic star who by the age of 30 had produced an influential body of work on the treatment of the mentally retarded. But in the minds of some of his colleagues, there was something odd about the work of Stephen Breuning, an assistant professor of child psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. The results of his studies were almost too orderly, too pat, and the work was completed with remarkable speed. The doubts came to a head in 1983 when Breuning's supervisor, Robert Sprague, then director of the Institute for Child Behavior and Development at the University of Illinois...