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Ford Motor Co. and Key Span, a natural gas provider, invited Harvard to test-drive Ford’s Crown Victoria Natural Gas Vehicle for a three-week trial period that ended last week. The black unmarked police car is identical to the normal gasoline-run cars used by HUPD...
...that a supposed childhood condition called identity disorder was excluded from DSM IV even though many child psychologists wanted to keep it. Kids could qualify for that disorder if they were "uncertain" about long-term goals, career choice and friendship patterns. "We said, 'Wait a minute. This looks like normal adolescence,'" says First, "and so we eliminated...
...critics say this sit-around-the-table-and-jawbone method isn't really science. Jerome Wakefield, a Rutgers professor of social work, says that while the DSM's authors do try to eliminate errors so that normal emotional reactions aren't diagnosed as disorders, "there's no systematic process here. Changes are made on a very ad hoc basis, where people say, 'Oh, my god, we forgot X.'" Others have even harsher criticism. Dr. Paul McHugh, who chairs the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the DSM has lost its usefulness partly...
...head trauma (which can trigger similar symptoms). CTs have been particularly useful in identifying schizophrenia patients. In the 1970s researchers uncovered the first distinguishing abnormality in these patients' brains: the ventricles (fluid-filled open spaces), circled in yellow, are significantly larger in those with the disease, left, than in normal subjects, far left. This provided the first clue that schizophrenics may have less brain tissue affecting cognitive functions such as attention and memory...
...almost weekly basis. Self-diagnosis is a tricky business, especially when it comes to the mind. Still, with all the memoirs of addiction and depression and the countless websites devoted to mental health, it's more tempting than ever to lie down on the couch and ask, "Am I normal...