Also from the NYT, Embracing a Life of Solitude, a look at extreme, off-the-grid, away-from-everything loner living. His infrequent visitors would ask things like “What are you going to do if a coconut falls on your head?” — given that the nearest doctor was hundreds of miles away. “I said, ‘Oh my, if I think […]
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File under “about time”: In Reporting Symptoms, Don’t Patients Know Best? “Increasingly, scientifically, we believe that whatever Mrs. Smith says is what Mrs. Smith is experiencing, and it’s important to know how patients themselves feel about how they’re doing.”
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From the NYT, a portrait of a malady: Raiding the refrigerator, but still asleep. Shirley Koecheler, 54, has been a sleepwalker for as long as she can remember. But it wasn’t until she got married that she started eating in her sleep, too. She’d wander into the kitchen — eyes open but asleep — and
A while back, I linked to Louis Menand’s big New Yorker article about the history of depression treatment. Didn’t read it? Here’s a conversation about the piece–The Depression Debate–in a podcast from the magazine’s website. Meds, placebos, Freud, CBT, and depression itself all come under the microscope.
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My report from the first day of the L.A. Mind-Body Conference is up at the Huffington Post.
Article + resources: Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill: People fighting chronic illnesses are less likely than others to have Internet access, but once online they are more likely to blog or participate in online discussions about health problems […] They are gathering on big patient networking sites like PatientsLikeMe, HealthCentral, Inspire, CureTogether
Not mental health per se, but with big psych impact: A NYT article about how early habits (really early–starting in the womb) can get someone set on a course for obesity later in life.
From PsychCentral, a list of Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments. Click around, help science, maybe have fun. At any given time, hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on. They are a great, cost-efficient method to gather experimental data from the multitudes of people online. These experiments can be fun to try, but also provide
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A new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic
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For internet daters (and stats lovers), a series of new and old posts at the OkCupid.com blog: Interactive maps showing why men should be looking to date older women, among other things. Another entry looks at the data and comes up with Exactly What to Say in a First Message. Another looks at How Races and
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