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“The burden of mental illness and substance abuse disorders in older adults in the United States borders on a crisis.” ~ Dr. Dan Blazer, Duke University Stating the obvious can be a particularly irritating habit. Exclamations of “it’s hot!” when the temperature… Continue Reading
Perhaps you’ll recall from our last post (with the same clever title as this, only a ‘Part I ‘ in place of ‘Part II,’ as these things go) the following: –>Young adults ages 20-24 are heavy information and communication technology (ICT)… Continue Reading
It strikes me as fairly incomprehensible how attached people are to their mobile phones–even in our family, which is of course a bastion of mental health. We’ve got one family member who sleeps with hers, one who watches sports games… Continue Reading
“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” ~ Arnold J. Toynbee Suicide is the ultimate expression of abandonment of hope, of an inability to see a better future, of the experience of agony too great to suffer a moment more.… Continue Reading
If I had to pick a country to win the highly competitive ‘Unusual Connection to Its Own Ancient Language Award’ [a highly prestigious award, as I’m sure you’re all aware], hands down it would be Israel. [I would have voted for the… Continue Reading
You may remember my post called “A Retraction Here, A Retraction There. . .A Few Upsetting ‘Whats’ Before The ‘Why’” (alluding to that Everett Dirksen quote, “”A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money”). In the… Continue Reading
Have you ever found an article so fabulous, new, and ground-breaking that you can’t wait to blog on it, and share with the entire blogosphere this knowledge it seems only you–for the moment–possess? Perhaps it’s the discovery you’ve always longed to… Continue Reading
A college education is clearly worth something in the minds of politicians these days, as President Obama’s roast of Mitt Romney made clear. At the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where hilarity ((perhaps not our president’s greatest strength) is called for… Continue Reading
“New York’s Riker’s Island, Chicago’s Cook County Jail and the Los Angeles County Jail are the largest mental health institutions in the nation. . . 15 percent of the inmates of those three jails are mentally ill, making penal institutions… Continue Reading
One year after its initial deadline, the 5th Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the DSM-5, is due out in May, 2013. Published by the American Psychiatric Association, it is, in the APA’s words the: standard classification of mental… Continue Reading
Even four-year-olds and marshmallows, cute a combination as they are, get old after a while. So that, it seemed, was that, as sociologist Walter Mischel, lead researcher on the Stanford Marshmallow Study, got publication after publication out of his marshmallow-eating kids run, and… Continue Reading
If I had to pick my ‘top 3 favorite’ social science experiments, it’d really be no contest. [Now, if you’re in awe of my mastery of the field of social science, you’ve forgotten an important point that I perhaps haven’t… Continue Reading
