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...such despair with an argument that is insightful or cunningly circular, depending on your view, insisting that patients like Sullivan are depressed, and as such, don't qualify for suicide medication under the law. "If they are demoralized, we should take care of them, not overdose them," says Portland psychiatrist Gregory Hamilton. But the line between clinical and situational depression often gets blurred. "One doctor told me to take two antidepressants so I could have a Pollyanna attitude," Sullivan scoffs...
...only one to have linked this gene to shyness, and while nobody pretends it's the entire answer, most researchers believe it at least plays a role. "People who carry the short variant of the gene are, in general, a little more shy and reactive to stress," says psychiatrist Michael Meaney of McGill University in Montreal, who just completed a two-year study of timidity and stress...
...inclination toward shyness turns out to be that way? Environment, for starters. More than 20 years ago, Kagan conducted a study of 2-year-old children to measure their levels of inhibition--a tendency to retreat that often appears in children who later become indisputably shy. In collaboration with psychiatrist Dr. Carl Schwartz of Harvard Medical School, he then followed up on the children in their teens and again when they became young adults. Of the subjects who started off with shy tendencies, a full two-thirds stayed that way, but the rest overcame their inhibitions. "Parenting, environment and social...
...General is investigating whether some doctors helped direct what amounts to psychological torture. Though no evidence has surfaced that mental-health professionals sanctioned the beatings and sexual humiliation that guards at Abu Ghraib are accused of inflicting, Army investigators did find that military-intelligence officers at the prison had psychiatrists review their "interrogation plans" for Iraqi detainees. If any mental-health professionals supervised such pressure tactics as sleep deprivation or the use of military dogs to threaten prisoners during interrogations, that would cross an ethical line, says an Army psychiatrist. "We should not be using our abilities to make things...
...would anyone want to generate tiny electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...