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...ongoing Nurses’ Health Study, which periodically surveys over 120,000 registered nurses via questionnaires, Sun and his research team tracked and analyzed data for 17,000 nurses from 1976 to 2000. He searched for trends in multiple aspects of health, from physical and cognitive function to mental health and chronic diseases...
According to the e-mails posted on Gu’s site, she was referred to University Health Services Chief of Mental Health Richard D. Kadison for “inappropriate and intrusive” behavior in June 2007 and was placed on involuntary medical leave in Aug. 2007 for a pattern of behavior that was “extremely disruptive to the academic environment.” Gu said she was required to leave the United States within two weeks...
...trial, which was conducted in the cities of London, Darlington and Brighton, researchers divided the 127 participants into three groups, giving one group heroin and giving the other two intravenous methadone and oral methadone. Although all three groups showed improved physical and mental health thanks to the counseling and social services offered by the clinics, the heroin-using group fared much better than the others. After half a year, three-quarters had largely stopped taking street heroin. And the number of crimes committed by those in the group dropped from 1,700 in the 30 days before the program began...
...arcade games - the scientific evidence hasn't progressed much since. Anecdotally, therapists who now specialize in video-game and Internet addiction say it's a growing and serious problem. But it will be some time before it meets the threshold for inclusion in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). "The central issue is the absence of research literature on this," says Dr. Charles O'Brien, director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Studies in Addiction and the current chair of the DSM-V committee to revise the manual, adding that with the backdrop...
Here's a diagnosis: Harvard students suffer from an unfortunate mental disposition to conflate work and play. Now, some of you may be pshaw-ing and pulling out your tattered lexicons to inform us that, no, you know the difference between those two words, thank you very much. Fair enough...