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...estimate that there are 50,000 to 1 million hikikomori. Fear of them has suffused the headlines. In a bizarre twist two months ago, a father and mother confessed to strangling their son because, the parents told police, the teenager had terrorized the family for the past year. Says psychiatrist Takeshi Tamura: "Parents are now afraid of their kids...
Experts are quick to point out that most hikikomori are simply antisocial, not violent. "They don't want to leave their bedrooms," says Hidehiko Kuramoto, an adolescent psychiatrist. "How would they ever have the energy to do these things?" Another counselor says a 47-year-old man he is treating has been a recluse for 28 years. "You can't pinpoint the reason, but you can pinpoint the context: it's Japan," says Sadatsugu Kudo, who runs a recovery center for hikikomori in Fussa, a Tokyo suburb. "In Japan you have to be like other people, and if you aren...
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine are concentrating on a protein known as COX2, which they have shown rises steeply in the brains of patients in the very early stages of the disease. Cells produce COX2 in response to injury, observes Mount Sinai molecular psychiatrist Giulio Pasinetti, who believes it may be COX2--and not beta amyloid--that induces the inflammatory response characteristic of the disease. Anti-inflammatories, in other words, could shortly emerge not only as components of the therapeutic arsenal but also as agents of prevention...
Since he became chief seven years ago, five people have either killed somebody or committed suicide while waiting for a bed at Mississippi State Hospital or after they returned home from psychiatric care without follow-up. The town's only private psychiatrist has just retired and can't find a replacement willing to move here. At the town's well-intentioned but underfunded mental-health clinic for indigents, the staff turnover is 100% annually, mostly on account of burnout. One psychologist and two counselors divvy up the 200-plus "consumers" in Adams County. For many, the extent of therapy...
...chemicals are cleared out of the system, the problem reverses itself--but not right away. Heavy drinkers may need five full years of sobriety before all their memory breakers are re-engaged. Even then, "they may remain at long-term risk for later-life dementia," says Gayatri Devi, a psychiatrist and memory specialist affiliated with Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City...