Word: mentality
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Right before winter break, the Undergraduate Council (UC) passed the Reading Period Resources Act, which enlists the help of five campus organizations in increasing mental health resource awareness among students...
Their input has resulted in an informational pamphlet listing resources, mental health contact information, and mental health event, and will be distributed primarily through e-mail this week...
...life after the holidays and the caucuses will leave some Iowans down in the dumps. "This is a huge event. It really picks up people's moods - they see themselves being viewed nationally as very important to a very important process," says Larry Hejtmanek, director of a Des Moines mental health center and an avid caucus-goer. "The downside is January 4. It's all over. You have a normal letdown. People say 'I'll be glad when the phone stops ringing,' but I don't think they really feel that...
...will face now that he has been released. "It's been an extraordinarily long time for him, and we are not sure how he's going to cope," he said. "But once he's out of the system he will be checked out and looked at and have medical, mental and physical checks." He paused, reflecting on the strain of the past few years. "Probably the mental checks will go on for quite a while," he said...
Roughly 1 in 3,600 people have Fragile X Syndrome, with boys more severely affected than girls. People with the disorder tend to have elongated faces and prominent ears; about half of them fall somewhere on the autism spectrum and most are mentally retarded or learning disabled as well. Fragile X occurs when the brain fails to produce normal quantities of a chemical known as the Fragile X mental retardation protein, or FMRP. This protein appears to act as a brake on the production of other proteins in the brain, including those associated with learning and memory. Without enough FMRP...