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...themselves once sufferers put their lives in order? By slowly unraveling the extraordinary complexity of neurotransmitter interaction, scientists are learning more about how the brain works. But they still wouldn't claim to know the half of it. Pinning depression on a chemical imbalance is problematic when what constitutes normal brain chemistry has yet to be defined. "I think what we have to tell trainee psychiatrists is that this is a far more complex area than we previously thought," says Dr. Louise Newman, director of the New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry. While there's a "suggestion" of a chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Pills | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...shift has caused many to ask whether prevalence has really increased 200-fold in half a century, or whether the definition of depression has been deliberately broadened and blurred by drug companies and others - part of a trend to medicalize moods that were once accepted as falling within the normal range of human emotions. Despite record sales of antidepressants in Australia, drug companies and mental-health lobby groups maintain there are still hundreds of thousands of Australians with undiagnosed depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Pills | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...basis of a poll it had commissioned and interpreted, the company found 20% of these people had depression. Months earlier, working from another one of its surveys, Pfizer announced that "alarming numbers" of young Australians were at risk of depression because many around them were "dismissing telltale signs as normal adolescent behaviour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Pills | 11/14/2005 | See Source »

...defeated Republicans - are interred there, but only Francoists treat the site as a shrine. Last November, the Catalan Green party (icv) suggested that the basilica be transformed into a "center for interpretation" to inform visitors about the repression and suffering inflicted by Franco's regime. "It's not normal for a democratic society to have failed to resolve this issue," says icv vice president Jaume Bosch. "Auschwitz has been converted into a learning center; Argentina has turned its torture chambers into places for explanation. Too many years have passed for us simply to leave the Valley as the Franco regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell To Franco | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

Even on a normal “school night,” putting yourself to sleep rather than collapsing is key. You should not allow yourself to pass out atop your ink-annotated History and Literature reading. (The huge blue line on your face the next morning will surely not be the best way to start your...

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DEAR NIKKI: How To Get to Bed | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

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