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...Department of Children and Families, who was criticized for her department's admission four months ago that it had failed to notice the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, Rilya Wilson, for more than a year; in Miami. Appointed to replace her by Governor Jeb Bush was Jerry Regier, a conservative Christian who immediately drew fire for old ties to a group that wrote an essay in support of childhood spankings...
...includes Paxil, Zoloft and Sarafem--as a positive development. Clinical depression, as Andrea Yates's case reminds us, is a dangerous illness that may drive mothers to kill their babies, fathers to commit suicide and schoolchildren to start shooting their classmates. Most depression in the U.S., says Dr. Darrel Regier of the American Psychiatric Association, still goes untreated. If you or someone you love is suffering crying spells, feeling inappropriately guilty, thinking about suicide or having trouble eating or sleeping, don't ignore the symptoms. You should know that there's help available and that it works...
...bloodlines. Their report, published in the journal Nature, conclusively linked cases of manic depression in an Amish family to genes in a specific region of human chromosome 11. "This is the first demonstration of a possible genetic basis for one of the major mental disorders," says Dr. Darrel Regier, director of the division of clinical research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "The study ushers in a new era of psychiatric research...
...Stirling County study, completed in Nova Scotia in 1952, said that 57% of those interviewed had a disorder during a lifetime and 20% were in need of psychiatric attention at the time of the survey. "The most important thing is not what the overall rate is," says Dr. Darrel Regier, director of the NIMH survey, "but that we now know what the distribution of disorders is. This is establishing a baseline for future research...