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  • Anorexia nervosa, neurobiology, and family-based treatment

    hen, and only then, patients would choose to resume eating. If they were still alive. Bruch’s observations dictated eating-disorders treatments for decades, treatments that led to spectacularly ineffective results. Only about 35% of people with anorexia recovered; another 20% died, of starvation or suicide; and the rest lived with some level of chronic illness for the rest of their lives. Not a great track record, overall, and especially devastat…

    Authored by on August 10, 2012

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

    …g and fatigue, but I was lucky that I didn’t experience either. Because I’m a freelancer, the time investment wasn’t a burden for me. I’m also lucky living where I live, because I could walk to the hospital. It was a pleasant 3-mile round-trip walk, and I think the walking helped me a lot physically and mentally. DXS: And now to the chemo. My interest in interviewing you about your experience began with a reference you made on Twitter to “chemo b…

    Authored by on January 31, 2012

  • Evidence Based Parenting Carnival

    ans for us. Melinda Wenner Moyer, of The Kids column at Slate, @lindy2350 Melinda is a freelance science and health journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She writes The Kids, Slate’s parenting advice column, and won the 2012 Society of Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Media Award for her Slate piece The Truth About Epidurals. Polly Palumbo, Momma Data, @mommadata Momma Data debunks, demystifies and elaborates on information in the…

    Authored by on April 2, 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

  • Motherhood, war, and attachment: what does it all mean?

    d “cry it out” with her children but that they seem to be doing well and are good sleepers. Then one of the toddlers begins to cry, obviously hurt in some way, and both mothers rush over together to offer assistance. Scene 3: In the evening, one of these parents might say to a partner, “Can you believe that they’re going to let him play football?” or “I can’t believe they’re still breastfeeding when she’s three!” Sure. They might “judge” or th…

    Authored by on May 16, 2012

  • XX Tech Report: Rapid detection and treatment for deadly blood infections

    …[Ed. note: Introducing our new technology editor, Jeffrey Perkel!  Jeffrey, a recovering scientist, has always had a passion for the technology and the gadgetry of science. He has been a scientific writer and editor since 2000, when he left academia to join the staff of The Scientist magazine as a Senior Editor for Technology. Before that, he studied transcription factor biology at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Medical School –…

    Authored by on August 24, 2012

  • Depressing genes

    ter all, that’s one of the reasons why scientists are trying to identify risk genes: to design better treatments for those disorders. [Image credit: DNA, public domain image from US govt. Image of Prozac, credit Tom Varco, CC 3.0 license.] [Siobhan Mitchell obtained a Neurobiology Ph.D. at the State University New York at Albany (SUNY Albany), followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Washington, Seattle. She currently works at the…

    Authored by on May 17, 2013

  • Depression and alcoholism: all in the family

    …s 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 numbers get higher but the proportion is similar. [Note: I won't draw my family tree to maintain a bit of privacy for my family.] I’d also like to point out that my family members continue…

    Authored by on February 15, 2013

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

    …time those of us in the United States have come to expect on weekends, particularly when we work salaried weekday jobs that ostensibly promise weekends off. That means that on top of the anxiety associated with stacking 20 or 30 extra hours onto a 40-hour work week to meet a tough deadline, my husband and my children’s father also feels angst about this inability to be a part of our family time. These are first-world problems, I realize, bu…

    Authored by on June 16, 2012

  • Breast cancer screening and treatment, especially in younger women

    …SeattleMamaDoc Storified by Emily Willingham · Mon, Oct 15 2012 13:00:07 “@stales: MT @SeattleMamaDoc: Exercise lowers hormone levels, consequently lowers risk of breast cancer.#SCCAbc #SCCAbc”MESFER AL SHAHRANI #SCCAbc Topic 3: If your mother or sister had breast cancer, especially < age 40, you may be at increased risk.Julie Gralow RT @jrgralow: Breast cancer in multiple family members, especially at young age, increases risk. Great info: http:…

    Authored by on October 17, 2012

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