News by David E
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Most therapists schedule face-to-face meetings with their patients. But new data suggest that therapy by phone may be a better option for some patients. It has long been a concern among therapists that nearly half of their patients quit after only a few sessions. As a result, ...
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Let’s say a patient walks into my office and says he’s been feeling down for the past three weeks. A month ago, his fiancée left him for another man, and he feels there’s no point in going on. He has not been sleeping well, his appetite is poor and he has lost interest in nearly ...
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If opening presents seems less exciting at age 60 than it did at age 10, the explanation may lie in the brain. A study has found that as people age, their brains respond less strongly to rewards. The main difference is in the response of the brain to dopamine, a naturally oc...
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Guy Kawasaki recently worked with us to ink a humorous spoof "How to Tell If Your Boss is Crazy" and just posted it on his blog with the full text on the American Express Open Forum. We used the DSM-IV criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder,...
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Positive experiences play an important role in buffering the effects of negative experiences. Although this process can play out in a myriad of contexts, the college context is one of particular importance because of significant concerns about student stress levels and alcohol ab...
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Aims: The aim of this study was to assess public preferences on sources of help and treatment, and perception of prognosis for alcohol dependence. Method: A household survey was administered in 2002 to a probabilistic sample of 500 individuals, all residents of the city of São Pa...
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Former Staff Sgt. Kevin Owsley is not quite sure what rattled his brain in 2004: the roadside bomb that exploded about a yard from his Humvee or the rocket-propelled grenade that flung him across a road as he walked to a Porta Potti on base six weeks later. After each attack, ...
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NEW YORK AUG 19, 2008 (Reuters Health) - Emotional recovery is delayed in patients with breast cancer who receive taxane-based chemotherapy, Ohio State University researchers report in the August 1 issue of Cancer. Dr. Lisa M. Thornton and colleagues in Columbus conducted a lo...