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...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...
Harvard is also unique because Harvard first-years can choose their roommates and blockmates from the entire class. In spite of the pain and stress the blocking system can cause, it still gives Harvard first-years the freedom of association that is denied to their Yale peers. Not everyone blocks with the people in their freshman dorms. The importance of the right to choose one’s own roommate cannot be underestimated...
...Frankfurt, Landstuhl is about 3,500 km from the combat in Iraq. But 20,000 soldiers have been airlifted here; of those, about 5,000 are classified as combat injuries, though the 141-bed facility also treats the psychological wounds of war, such as depression and post-traumatic stress syndrome. In any other war, the most grievously wounded men at Landstuhl would have been killed, having bled to death on the battlefield or succumbed in a hospital to wounds so severe that their armor could not protect them and doctors could not save them. In World...
...fate themselves: whether to return him back to the war after being stitched up, or send him back to his base, or home. Partly with Cornum's coaxing, U.S. military commanders in Europe have begun requiring every soldier returning from Iraq to consult a psychologist for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Cornum, who previously led the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Bosnia, has also hired several trauma surgeons and critical-care nurses and added operating rooms to the icu. "It's a completely different place now," Putnam says. He ranks Landstuhl as "a world-class trauma center," with...
...greater mistreatment. Like chickens in battery cages, sows are confined in individual metal crates so restrictive that they can’t turn around or even move side to side more than a few inches. They withstand cycles of impregnation, gestation, and giving birth. Intense frustration results in debilitating stress-induced behaviors such as biting on cage bars and obsessive sucking on their water bottles...