Word: nimh
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...Harvard spokesperson said the University does not plan to reinstate the former head of the National Institue of Mental Health (NIMH...
...National Institute of Mental Health began studying and defining the syndrome in the early 1980s; it received formal acceptance this spring, when it was included for the first time in the American Psychiatric Association's bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Third Edition). Says NIMH Research Psychiatrist Norman Rosenthal, a pioneer in SAD studies: "People who suffer from depression are less able to cope with stresses that knock them out of equilibrium; they can't roll with the punches. We have now expanded that idea from psychological stresses to the physical environment...
...work two or three jobs at once. Latitude appears to be as important as season: the incidence and severity of SAD increase with distance ; from the equator, peaking at around 40 degrees north. "It's as if there's a 'biological equator,' " explains Psychiatrist Thomas Wehr, head of NIMH's psychobiology branch...
...thing characterized Breuning's research, it was perfection," says the NIMH's Sullivan. "Now we know that it was too good to be true." The reports, says Agency Official Lorraine Torres, often included meticulous details for experiments that never took place and descriptions of the training . of individuals working on imaginary projects. One publication Breuning co- authored was an analysis of data on ten mentally retarded young adults, apparently gathered while he was working at the Oakdale Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities, in Lapeer, Mich. Oakdale officials told the NIMH that as far as they knew, the research never took...
Breuning, 34, concedes that he was distracted by personal problems while some of his work was in progress but insists that the NIMH panel "did a shoddy, sloppy investigation." Now the director of psychological services at the Polk Center, in Polk, Pa., Breuning left the University of Pittsburgh in April 1984 during a university investigation into his work. He admits that "I've paid for some mistakes I made, probably paid more than I should have. But I'm not planning to wilt or go away...