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DIED. VIKTOR FRANKL, 92, inspirational Austrian psychiatrist who survived Nazism's concentration camps to write Man's Search for Meaning; in Vienna. Frankl's father, mother, brother and first wife were all killed in the camps, a fate he narrowly escaped--in part, he believed, by finding meaning in helping others face the ordeal...
...study, a team led by research psychiatrist David Skuse of the Institute of Child Health in London ran those tests on 80 Turner's girls and then evaluated their social skills. It turned out that the ones with Mom's X were far more inept than those with a paternal chromosome...
...team of researchers led by psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has published the strongest evidence to date that the surge of dopamine in addicts' brains is what triggers a cocaine high. In last week's edition of the journal Nature they described how powerful brain-imaging technology can be used to track the rise of dopamine and link it to feelings of euphoria...
...Martin is a haunted man. What's put him on the couch of Alan Arkin's understandably nervous psychiatrist is lack of job satisfaction--killing the President of Paraguay with a fork just isn't the kick it might once have been--and the fact that he still pines for his high school sweetheart, whom he stood up without explanation on their long-ago prom night. Since she is played by the divine Minnie Driver--now working as a disk jockey but still smitten, it turns out, and still warily available--his feelings are understandable...
...There are many reproductive possibilities that could be raised by genetic research," said Boston University psychiatrist Richard Pillard. "Homosexuality is just one of them...