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Am J Psychiatry
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MAN DIES AFTER BATTLE WITH POLICE
New York Post
... arrest and died. Davenport's father, Herman, said his son was
bipolar, and was taking a number of anti-depressant medications. Even so
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A crime, penalty and illness
NorthJersey.com
His crime was stalking Lauren Bush, the president's niece. His problem
is that he suffers from bipolar disorder. Prior to the incident,
32-year-old Lucas Schloming was not taking his anti-psychotic
medication. He had no job, and he was living at his parents' home in
Cambridge, Mass.
Madness, medication and motherhood
Salon.com
I have bipolar disorder. I want a child, but I am terrified of going off
my meds -- and of birth defects. Do I dare trust this body to create
another one?
Harvard Brain Bank, World's Largest, Seeks a Few Good Cerebella
Bloomberg.com
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Almost anyone with a brain can get into Harvard.
Harvard University's brain bank at McLean Hospital, the world's largest
repository of brains for scientific study, is facing a shortage.
A Chance Find, and Voilą! Goodbye, Hot Flashes. Hello, Sleep.
New York Times
Neurontin was approved by the F.D.A. in 1994 to treat epileptic
seizures, but it may also provide relief for women suffering hot
flashes.
A legacy of ethics
Louisville Courier-Journal
Barry Bingham Jr., who led The Courier-Journal and Louisville Times to
national acclaim and three Pulitzer Prizes before seeing his family's
media empire collapse in the 1980s, died yesterday at his Glenview home.
Mental patient to sue MEC and hospital
Independent Online
A woman who was allegedly raped by a male nurse and a male patient at a
state mental hospital is planning to sue the Gauteng health MEC and the
hospital for failing to protect her.
Personality breakdown: Will scientists be able to determine what
we'll be like from traits we exhibit as kids and teens?
Newsday (Melville, NY); 4/3/2006
Byline: Jamie Talan
Apr. 3--Scientists studying personality are working to figure out if
traits exhibited by a child or teenager can provide clues to who they
become as adults. Long-term studies are identifying personality traits
in children and following them throughout adulthood. Scientists also are
trying to figure out whether extremes in personality lead to behavior
that can be classified as a disorder. "We are re-discovering an old
clinical idea," said Drew Westen, a personality researcher at Emory
University in Atlanta. "We think that the ways people fall ill
psychologically are dependent on personality." Westen was part of a
think-tank discussion this weekend at a conference on personality
disorders in adolescents, sponsored by The Personality Disorders
Institute at Cornell University Weill Medical College. Only recently
have experts attempted to diagnose personality disorders in young
people. The thinking has long been that personality is a work in
progress until adulthood. Genes are laid down, but environment plays an
important role in shaping how someone feels about themselves and
responds to their world. By adulthood, personality becomes virtually
fixed for life. This is quite different from mental illnesses like
depression and bipolar disorders that also can begin in young people,
but have an identifiable beginning and end. "Personality explains a huge
chunk of why someone is depressed in adolescence," Westen said. "Just
knowing that a kid has problems with his conduct tells us very little
about who he is or what his adult life will be like," Westen said. "But
personality ... that will tell us a great deal." How a person reacts to
others and the environment itself comes under genetic and environmental
control, said Dr. Katherine Halmi, a professor of psychiatry at Weill
Medical College of Cornell University. As an eating disorders
specialist, Halmi has seen that many of her patients with anorexia seem
to share a personality trait marked by perfectionism. They master their
anxiety by starving themselves, she said. Certain traits make people
vulnerable to specific mental illnesses, she said. For example,
distrust, anxiety and interpersonal avoidance can be linked to paranoia.
Harvard University's Jerome Kagan says a diverse culture allows many
different personality types to take shape. Family and culture sculpts
them. Take two temperamentally similar children and put them in
different types of families and the outcomes for these children will be
vastly different, said Kagan, who has been following babies and children
into adulthood. "We are still studying them to see how their life
itinerary changes," Kagan said.
Patricia Cohen, a researcher at the New York State Psychiatric
Institute, has been doing similar research. Following 821 people since
early childhood, Cohen found that 10 percent to 15 percent had a
diagnosable personality and/or mood problem. Many are now in their 30s
and early 40s and these problems resonate in the next generation. What
Cohen learned is that children with any mental disorder at 13 were less
likely to be settled in their careers or relationships in their 30s.
They had less education and were less likely to be raising a family.
Paul Costa Jr., chief of the intramural laboratory of personality and
cognition at the National Institute on Aging, says it's almost
impossible to tell what a 10-year-old will be like at 30. But by 19, it
is much easier to predict his future. "The stress-prone will remain
stress-prone, but they will mellow with age," he said. "It is a fit of
trait and environment."
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