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...Severe depression does occur in adolescents, and there's a risk of suicide in these cases, says the Institute of Psychiatry's Newman. But she suspects doctors are overprescribing antidepressants across the board. "It's important they distinguish between normal sadness and clinical depression," she says. "We all need to feel sad sometimes. We don't want a society in which people run off to get prescribed rather than feel normal emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious...
Cool Cat Inventor: Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Availability: Prototypes for research only To Learn More: www.hitech-projects.com/icat The notion of robot as home companion is nothing new, but iCat adds a human dimension to the job: an expressive face. Tell her to go away, and iCat will look sad. Praise her, and she will beam. Internal microphones can be used to record sounds and assist with speech recognition-iCat is multilingual-and 13 electric motors move her eyes, eyebrows, eyelids, mouth and head to produce the appropriate emotional response. iCat can also connect to the Net and display online...
...encountered online, and I thought, How disconcerting. Because it was 10 at night and most likely she was going to meet this guy and stay in his hotel room. Go back 50 years, and she would have been in her Swedish village, depressed, a bit lonely and sad. Instead she's in midtown Manhattan, preparing to spend the night with a doctor, and her son is driving her to the hotel...
Final clubs are an intoxicating experience. Since the start of freshman year, they have kept me drunk: drunk with enough alcohol to kill a small country, but also drunk with a sad sense of social elitism. Despite many moral misgivings, however, I still find myself—now a senior—standing at their doorsteps and date events, indulging my guilty pleasure. I keep going because I lack a clear conviction as to why I should not.I often feel that I operate in two different worlds here at Harvard. In one, I find my favorite classmates and closest friends...
...shows loud and frequent appreciation for the music. As far as places to get sloshed go, it’s a hell of a lot better than the smarmy B-schoolers at Grafton Street—and it’s a lot cheaper, too. The Hotspot had its sad introduction to the Cantab freshman year, when its hot proctor’s boyfriend talked about the incredible time he has every time he goes to see Little Joe play. Then he asked if the Hotspot was 21 and seemed surprised to hear that it wasn’t. Hell...