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• Anorexia nervosa, neurobiology, and family-based treatment

  Via Wikimedia Commons Photo credit: Sandra Mann By Harriet Brown, DXS contributor Back in 1978, psychoanalyst Hilde Bruch published the first popular book on anorexia nervosa. In The Golden Cage, she described anorexia as a psychological illness caused by environmental factors: sexual abuse, over-controlling parents, fears about growing up, and/or other psychodynamic factors. Bruch believed young patients needed to be separated from…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on August 10, 2012

• Depression and alcoholism: all in the family

  …I reach, general anaesthetic might be a factor because I had operations within months of each depressive episode. But my genetic load is probably a bigger influence. My family history is full of depression and alcoholism. In 1st-degree (siblings, parents) and 2nd-degree (grandparents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews) relatives, 11 of 12 people have been treated for depression and/or alcoholism. If we move to 3rd degree relatives, the absolute num…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on February 15, 2013

• On this Father’s Day, let’s remember the allofathers, too

  A big brother, practicing the art of allofathering. By Emily Willingham, DXS managing editor On Mother’s Day, scientist and blogger Kate Clancy wrote an excellent post at Scientific American about allomothers, the people in your circle of friends and family who support mothers in their mothering. In thanking the allomothers in her life, Clancy included in that list her husband because men can be allomothers, too. Although this  si…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 16, 2012

• Double Xpressions: Jennifer Canale, the self-proclaimed "Flamboyant Scientist"

  …ive to a point, but when I asked for an erector set for Christmas, I got a Barbie town house. When I wanted to go camping with the Girl Scouts, I was sent to dance school (but, much to my amazement, I enjoyed that until I was 17).  My parents started giving in around 3rdgrade, and I got the panda bear-shaped calculator I wanted, as well as the robot toy 2XL featuring the 8-track tape. My mom would beg me to watch Little House On the Prairie, but…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on November 30, 2012

• Science: It’s a family affair…or you can make it one

  While you read this post, kick back and enjoy listening to this podcast from Science Friday. If you’re a parent, you can multitask like that, right? If you prefer reading the transcript, you can do so here. Where can your child learn about science? Obviously, school, museums, parks, and university campuses may offer some fine opportunities for learning. But did you know that you can bring the science at home, too? And you don’t ha…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on November 15, 2011

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

  …e X Extra: A triglyceride can have up to three different fatty acids attached to it. Canola oil, for example, consists primarily of oleic acid, linoleic acid, and linolenic acid, all of which are unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in their chains. Why do we take in fat anyway? Fat is a necessary nutrient for everything from our nervous systems to our circulatory health. It also, under appropriate conditions, is an excellent way to store up…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 8, 2012

• After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

  Protip: Don’t diagnose based on speculation. by Jessica Wright                Attention journalists: If you’ve been calling people “nuts” or “deranged” in your stories, the Associated Press is recommending that it’s time you stopped. This guideline — along with the common-sense assertion that writers shouldn’t diagnose individuals with a mental illness based entirely on speculation — is part of a new recommendation added to the AP styleboo…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on March 27, 2013

• Work-Life Balance for Whom?

  …versity she is the Gender Equality Champion, and also nationally chairs the Athena Forum, which aims to disseminate best practice with regard to gender within Higher Education. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999, and is chair of their Education Committee. She was awarded the L’Oreal/UNESCO For Women in Science Laureate for Europe in 2009, and appointed a Dame Commander of the British Empire for services to Physics in 2010…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on August 8, 2012

• Dominants, alphas, and queens: Happy Mother’s Day!

  Mothers who rule in the animal kingdom. by Jacquelyn Gill      On the second Sunday in May in the United States, mothers reign supreme, receiving tributes of breakfast in bed, hand-made cards, flowers, and obligatory long-distance phone calls. Meanwhile, for the rest of the animal kingdom, it’s just another day: eat, hunt, mate, birth, nest, migrate, defend, and rest. Some go it alone, but others—like spotted hyenas and bison—live in groups with…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on May 13, 2013

• From spiders to breast cancer: Leslie Brunetta talks candidly about her cancer diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up

  …cancers are diagnosed as IDCs. Those cancers start with the cells lining the milk ducts. The ones in the left breast were invasive lobular carcinomas (ILCs), which start in the lobules at the end of the milk ducts. Only about 10% of breast cancers are ILCs. Oncologists hate lobular cancer. Unlike ductal cancers, which form as clumps of cells, lobular cancers form as single-file ribbons of cells. The tissue around ductal cancer cells reacts to t…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on January 31, 2012