Some Collected Psych and Medical News of Interest

DEPRESSING (DEPRESSIVE?) NEWS

Nearly 5 Percent Of U.S. Population Suffers From Persistent Depression Or Anxiety

Why Are Some People More Susceptible To Depression Than Others?

Is There Really an Epidemic of Depression?

Mindreading 101? Identifying images by watching the brain

Japanese researchers create images from thoughts using thoughts about images

Amazing research.  Amazing topic.  Amazing potential for misuse.

Fears of gender-bending chemicals blur complex reality

Estrogen-interrupting chemicals are wreaking havoc upon gender?

Self-harm ‘includes boys too’

Move over, ladies; the men are demanding equality.

REPRODUCTIVE NEWS

Intelligent men ‘produce better sperm‘

They can sing, dance, and are cuter than the other sperm.

Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men

Does this have anything to do with the story above this?

BODY/MIND RESEARCH OF INTEREST

Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind

When Your Mind Disowns a Limb

Amputees Can Experience Prosthetic Hand As Their Own

Interesting research.  However it has been known to the DID (multiple personality) community for a long time.  When the optometrist tells my wife she doesn’t need colored lenses because her eyes have changed color eight times since she sat down, I think it’s correct to say that the disorder and its mechanisms bear study.

Psychiatric Drugs Replacing Talk Therapy

Well, it’s cheaper, isn’t it? Happy HMO to you all and to all a good-night!

MEDICAL

Sugar Can Be Addictive: Animal Studies Show Sugar Dependence

Why waste all that time torturing animals?  Just ask me!

They will get my chocolate when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Caffeine Has Greater Effect On Men, And Starts Only Ten Minutes After Consumption

New Mechanism For Attentional Control In The Human Brain Discovered

Any reason these stories are clustered together?

American Values Blamed For U.S Health-care Crisis

They have the unreasonable expectation of getting better when they see a doctor…