Brain region found to be linked to OCD-health

"LONDON: Scientists have located an area in the brain that fails to "kick-in" for people with obsessive compulsive disorder and those at risk of developing the condition. The discovery could allow experts to diagnose the disorder much earlier and better track how...

Woman locked up by family for 18 years

Seems like there are more and more stories like this everyday. People being locked in the basement for some odd reason, and they are living in ridiculous conditions and often abused. When they are finally found, 20years has gone by already. Can you imagine being locked up in...

Policy Shift Protects Trans-gender Youth In NYS Detention Centers

" The policy shift comes after a 2006 lawsuit that received little attention outside the gay media, but that created big waves inside the OCFS.Alyssa—formerly Andrew—Rodriguez was born male, but identified and...

Chantix Side Effects Cause F.A.A. to Ban Use by Pilots

Yes that is right, the FAA not the FDA although the FDA has it's own advisory as well."The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it would no longer permit pilots or air traffic controllers to use the smoking cessation drug Chantix, citing potential side effects that...

Jury in New York City convicts fan of stalking Uma Thurman

A man has been convicted in New York of stalking Uma Thurman, but he won't face much time behind bars."A former mental patient obsessed with Uma Thurman faces up to a year in jail after a jury convicted him Tuesday...

U.S. Post-War Suicides Could Exceed Combat Deaths

In thinking ahead a few years, this becomes a very powerful and troubling assertion. Could post-war suicides really surpass the number of U.S. soldiers killed during the war in Iraq? "At the American Psychiatric...

Top court case of dead flies in water bottle

I know two Canadian guys in the Photo here, Hosers actually, who found a live mouse in their beer bottle eh !, Okay, granted, they didn't vomit like this other guy who found flies in  his water, the Hosers just...

Stressed parents lead to sick kids, study says

A new study suggests the negative effects of stress may be, in effect, contagious.  Depressed and anxious parents have an effect on the health of their kids, according to the research.Seems to make intuitive...

Britney Spears Rushed to Hospital

It's sad when anticipated events like this come to pass. Hopefully, the troubled pop star will be able to receive the treatment she needs and escape the suicidal fate that is being hungrily hoped and hunted for by...

Britney Spears Hospitalized Again

Do you ever feel like your life is mirroring Groundhog Day? Anyway, here I am posting another article from TMZ about Britney being hospitalized again. My favorite detail (from a PerezHilton.com article) is the huge...

Britney Spears: “I’ll kill myself before I let them lock me up again!”

"Troubled Britney Spears reportedly made a series of terrifying calls to a close friend in which she threatened: “I’ll kill myself before I let them lock me up again!” Britney is said to have made the alarming...

Ben Stanford's Suicide--Bipolar Often Diagnosed as Depression

"I am absolutely making no assumptions about the state of mind 17-year old Alabama teen Ben Stanford was in when he decided to take his own life.  However, I do have education and background in this field of...

Activist Sent To Psychiatric Unit After Exposing Mental Institutions

Larisa Arap is an opposition critic allied with Gary Kasparov, and had mounted strong attacks on what she felt was an  inadequate mental health system in Russia. To her husband's horror, he discovered when she...

Busted! Man Thinks He's in Grand Theft Auto

The video game mentioned in the case history below is clearly Grand Theft Auto, in which the protagonist completes a series of crime-centric missions involving everything from automatic weapons to chainsaws to stolen...

Study Shows Ritalin Use Doubles in Children of Divorce: But the Question Rema...

"When a new study comes out showing that Ritalin use doubles in children of divorce, it is easy to assume the very public perception that divorce does a child 'bad.' But is it really that simple? Below, Professor Lisa Strohschein asks the following question: ‘Is it possible...

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