Vermont doctor, Robert W. Hyde, was involved in one of the nation’s darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments at a Boston hospital through funding that apparently originated with the CIA. Later, he became director of research at the Vermont State Hospital… In addition to patient Karen Wetmore’s [...]
In one of my past lives, I was a medical biller for a private physician. I got to behold all sorts of people and episodes of lunacy. It was an odd time for me; kind of a bridge between my late teens and actually deciding to act like an adult (I’m still not [...]
Last night, while sitting at a dinner table with fourteen semi-shreiking kids, mostly non-shreiking adults, and just plain odd old folks, it occurred to me that I’d be much better off as an agorophobic.
Agorophobes are the unfortunate people who are afraid to leave their homes. I have a sister-in-law who made it to work every [...]
As I’ve mentioned, my wife has Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. I like to feature information on this when I can, as well as maintaining resources for people living with someone who has DID (significant others, as they’re called).
I am about to introduce a new section of the blog dedicated to [...]
The hits just keep on coming….
There is apparently research on what kind of reaction could be caused psychosomatically after the next real or perceived event. They blame this for problems in Japan, Chechnya, and California.
A smart person will ask himself why this was released. Who released it? What do they seek to gain from it? [...]
So the move was completed at 4pm, with a bunch of tired, sore IT folks limping out into the rain. We knew it would get interesting the first time it rained in the new area. Even if there were no leaks, the noise would make it sound like World War II, with the rain banging [...]
As the American Psychiatric Association prepares the fifth edition of the DSM—their official guide to what’s making you insane in the membrane—there’s some debate on whether to include compulsive shopping as a disorder, writes Melissa Healy in the Los Angeles Times:
Is [it] a biologically driven disease of the brain, a learned habit run amok, an [...]
Scientists from the university of Reading have created a simple wheeled robot with distance sensors that is controlled wirelessly by a network of cells from a rat’s brain. The sensor data is fed to the neurons which reside in a nutrient/antibiotic solution - the cells output is then transmitted to the ‘body’ as control commands. [...]
Consumer Reports has an interview with the mother of a young man who couldn’t get any insurance because, after his brother committed suicide when he was younger, he saw a psychiatrist for a few…
So let’s use this as a springboard for discussion on All Things Insurance:
I sometimes wonder what’s fair in terms of insurance. With [...]
Tennessee: Man Arrested For Unlawful Photography
By Darius Radzius, Reporter / WJHL
Published: July 11, 2008
Nearly everyone carries a cell phone and it’s hard to find one without that camera feature. It’s convenient when you want to take that impromptu photo, but a Tri-Cities area man ended up behind bars after snapping a shot of a [...]
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