Word: phobias
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...individuals with persistent and multiple mental disorders are more likely to seek services, cognitive ability may be an important factor for clinicians to consider in treatment planning.” The researchers added, however, that they could not find any correlation between lower childhood IQ and panic disorder, simple phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder or substance dependence disorders. For recent research, faculty profiles, and a look at the issues facing Harvard scientists, check out The Crimson's science page...
...Mental-health professionals "are fascinated with what we're doing and excited to see the change in patients," says Dr. Gavin Andrews, who heads the St. Vincent's clinic. About 500 people have taken part in its trials of e-therapy for panic disorder, mild depression and social phobia, and "we are amazed by the results," he says. "Over the Web, we can produce exactly the same benefit as in our clinic, with a quarter of the staff time. We are curing people we never see." Andrews, who's also Professor of Psychiatry at the University of New South Wales...
...occurred to me that we also share a deeper affinity, a habit of mind that's been instilled or reinforced during our time here: our deep phobia of risk, of taking chances...
...course, it's entirely possible that this phobia of risk that is branded upon the Harvard student's soul is not a result of our Ivy-pedigree education, but our decision to take part in it in the first place. Students who are admitted to Harvard haven't made many mistakes. While Byerly Hall does a fantastic job of putting together diverse classes, perhaps this risk-minimizing ethos is the exception. After all, with the luxury of a seven-percent admit rate, why would Harvard's gatekeepers bother taking risks with the future...
...Nevada in 1957, a time of rock 'n' roll (Elvis' Hound Dog is on the sound track), greasy-haired juvenile delinquents (including the main new character, Shia LaBeouf's Mutt Williams), commie-phobia (and why not? The Soviets have just penetrated a U.S. military base), fear of the Bomb (hmm, what's that mushroom cloud on the horizon?) and mass sightings of UFOS (coming soon to an archaeological dig near...