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...tried dozens of medications, but nothing seemed to work very well or for very long. Then last June she heard about an experimental treatment being tested at the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. It involved aiming a powerful magnet at a spot on the brain to reset the wayward neural circuits that keep Martha, and millions like her, stuck in the downward spiral of depression...
...lives with more deeply embedded zones of the brain such as the limbic system, where emotions are processed. One theory holds that depression is either caused by or results in an imbalance in the activity in those regions. Applying periodic bursts of electrical current at the cortex may reset the network in a process that's akin to rebooting a computer...
...Bears took advantage of the opportunity and kicked off before Harvard had a chance to get completely reset on the field. They ended up driving the length of the field and got a last chance to score with a corner kick. After stationing all its players—including goalie Christopher Gomez—directly in front of the Crimson net, Brown sent the ball just a few yards outside of the box. As it bounced dangerously close to the goal, the ball miraculously ended up past the end line, just a couple of yards to the left...
...flawless damage control, and the White House was helped, perversely, by the ghastly death of Nicholas Berg, an American entrepreneur free-lancing in Iraq who was beheaded on-camera by a man the CIA believes to be Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi. Berg's death reset the moral-equivalence meter and reminded the world who the enemy is. U.S. officials said privately they could not believe that the terrorists had such a poor grasp of public relations. Between the prison scandal and Berg's death, it was easy to imagine that the war for Iraq's hearts and minds...
...least homeowners who have a good idea of how long they'll stay put have options right now. So-called hybrids--for which the rate is fixed for three, five, seven or 10 years and then reset annually--make a lot of sense, allowing you to shave up to 1.5 points off the 30-year fixed rate...