Word: mentality
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...Picture Balata’ tour and was moved to respond (“Politicizing the Playground,” oped, Apr. 20). I have just returned from a visit to Gaza and the West Bank where I was carrying out research on behalf of the UK’s Mental Health Foundation. I have been following the press of the Picture Balata tour with great interest as I had the pleasure of meeting one of the tour organisers in Balata refugee camp. My colleague, Elizabeth Porter and I were struck by the hospitality and warmth we found in Balata?...
...Causes of Psychosis Re Jeffrey Lluger's "Why They Kill" [April 30]: Thank you for the insight into Cho's mental state. Of course, no one can be sure what exactly was going on in his brain, but it helps to read substantial psychological facts that might give some answers to a devastated nation. People are desperately trying to find the reason something as horrific as this could happen, and the article provided some understanding of a mentally unstable human being. Laura Bowman, los angeles...
...mental illness is just one of the many issues in the terrible tragedy in Virginia. But most types of mental illness do not have a component of psychosis. In fact, many people with psychosis are rehabilitated with medication, counseling and monitoring and never turn violent. Let's use the term mental illness judiciously so that its stigma does not prevent people from seeking help and early intervention. If we don't, paradoxically, that could cause more patients to slip through the cracks. Anuradha Gupta, Stamford, Connecticut...
...Undergraduate Council went live Monday with HarvardHelp.com, a Web site intended to provide undergraduates consolidated access to mental health resources on campus. The site, which includes contact information for campus help organizations like Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) and Room 13, was originally proposed in April as a part of the UC’s platform for “Mental Health Awareness Month.” Rebecca L. Eshbaugh ’07, co-director of the Room 13 counseling center, credited the new Web site with doing the legwork that previously hindered students’ ability...
...migraine headache) had less memory loss as they aged than people without migraines did. True, the migraine sufferers generally had worse short- and long-term memory to begin with. "But this is not what we would have expected," says Amanda Kalaydjian, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the lead author on the study, published in the Apr. 24 issue of Neurology. It suggests there could be some biochemical process in the brain that both causes migraines and limits cognitive degeneration. However, it's also possible, Kalaydjian says, that people with migraine might have been forced...