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...judges have chosen 165 designs from 10 countries, to be featured in 10 two-hour shows, each of which is a jaw-dropping theatrical performance. Dance, music, lighting, elaborate sets and of course the ensembles themselves attract a total audience of around 35,000. "WOW," says founder Suzie Moncrieff, "is a glorious rebellion against the mundane." (See pictures of Australia...
...seems a global recession has set people's creative spirits alight with fresh ideas," Moncrieff says. But going by previous years, fresh ideas is the one thing the WOW awards are never short of. See www.worldofwearableart.com...
...what they're supposed to do in a significant proportion of cases. Based on fresh analyses of clinical-trial results, some researchers have concluded that the drugs are scarcely more effective than a placebo in alleviating depression. "I think they are more or less completely useless," says Dr. Joanna Moncrieff, senior lecturer in social and community psychiatry at University College London. In an article published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal, Moncrieff and coauthor Irving Kirsch, professor of psychology at the University of Plymouth, argued that it was time for "a thorough reevaluation of current approaches to depression...
...everyone's convinced. And not everyone will be until there's a biological test for depression instead of the series of questions doctors use now. Don't hold your breath waiting for that, says British academic Moncrieff: "I believe that human emotions will never be located in a simple biochemical formula." The chemical-imbalance theory is nonsense, says Adelaide psychiatrist Jureidini. SSRIs alter a patient's serotonin levels within days, he says, but their antidepressant effect - if there is any - doesn't occur for several weeks. "The idea that there's a serotonin deficiency that explains depression is such...
...SSRIs. As they see it, if depressed people's brain chemistry isn't messed up before they start taking the drugs, it's stone-cold certain that it will be once they're on them. There's no evidence that any drug acts specifically to reverse depression, says Moncrieff. "It's more accurate to understand psychiatric drugs as inducing abnormal states, analogous to how we use recreational drugs to induce euphoria or social disinhibition." The most she can say for the SSRIs is that some of them are mildly sedating, "and this may help someone who is agitated or anxious...