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  • Are children today really suffering nature deficit disorder (TM)?

    …on, became a genuine threat to health. While they certainly didn’t have television to keep them indoors, they also didn’t have child labor laws. The result was that children who once might have been at work at age 4 in a field were now at work at age 3 or 4 in a factory, putting in 12 or so hours a day before stepping out into the coal-smoked, animal-dung-scented air of the city.  Child labor wasn’t something confined to Indust…

    Authored by on April 30, 2012

  • Autism and the DSM-5

    …ial social aspect of this change, and the one thing that might, when it comes to autism, elevate the DSM-5 above the level of doorstop. [Image credit: Dave Bullock, UK, via Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 generic license.]…

    Authored by on April 23, 2013

  • UneXXpected Science: Does ADHD have benefits in certain environments?

    …nary terms. Modern society is just that—modern. This way of life has only been around for, at most, a few thousand years, which can be a blink of an eye for processes of natural selection. Dial back time about 10,000 years or 20,000 years, and you’ll be hard pressed to find any humans living in an environment anything remotely like a cubicle. Natural selection results from the interaction of genes and environment, and the “selection̶…

    Authored by on April 16, 2012

  • Depressing genes

    me overzealous and attack their own body’s tissue, often leading to serious health problems and death. Only rarely do gene variants cause primarily negative consequences, such as BRCA1, the breast cancer gene, or APOE epsilon 4, the early-onset Alzheimer’s disease gene. If insurance companies did, in fact, try to weed out clients based on their genetic make-up, they would soon find that most gene variants that put carriers at risk for some diseas…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • I Am Mental Illness: Anorexia–Biting Back

    …rexia. Fit back into those old jeans.” Tee hee. There’s no such thing as a little bit of anorexia. And no pair of jeans, no matter how hallowed, are worth having the crumbling bones of a 70-year-old while you’re still in your 30s. Or spending your 21st birthday in a locked psych ward because you weigh what you did when you were eight. I couldn’t even do a shot of Diet Coke. It’s not worth not eating (and digesting) your own birthday cake for a de…

    Authored by on January 25, 2013

  • Parenting paranoia comes in different forms

    …ne (of the many) things in our family tree is schizophrenia. A member of our extended family developed schizophrenia as an adolescent and has never recovered. Schizophrenia can run in families, so my two children have up to a 4% chance of developing this disorder compared to the 1.1% chance of someone without close relatives who have it. So along comes my March 2012 issue of The Atlantic featuring “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy” by Kathleen Ma…

    Authored by on May 19, 2013

  • Avoidant personality disorder

    …mostly non-fiction), writes poetry, and plays with her cats.] You can find more information about avoidant personality disorder here and here. [Image credit: Danielle Blue, via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 License.]…

    Authored by on March 29, 2013

  • My bipolar life

    …o help me re-write it, and basically they gave me a degree just to get me out of the place. I would go on a job interview and knock it out of the park. When I was an executive for a publicly traded corporation, I would put in 48-hour days, managing financial forecasts, talking to investors, hiring employees, and writing emails to lawyers. I became a highly successful person in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry. But only if you consid…

    Authored by on February 8, 2013

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

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