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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...
...removed left much to be desired both from an ethical and procedural point of view," said former colleague Allan F. Mirsky, chief of the laboratory of psychology and psychopathology at NIMH. Headded that he thought the rehiring made the MedSchool "look a little silly...
...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...
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...