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Psychologist's 'bible' makes caffeine intoxication and withdrawal official mental disorders
Reporter and PhotographerIrritable, nervous, restless-- it may not be you. It may be caffeine or lack of caffeine, and it may not be your fault. Caffeine intoxication and withdrawal is now considered a mental disorder, that's according to the DSM-V. DSM stands for...Tags: Music, Entertainment, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Autism
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Glastonbury School System Saying Goodbye To 15 Retiring Educators
The school system is saying goodbye to 15 longtime educators who are retiring at the end of the school year. Superintendent Alan B. Bookman recently recognized the educators at a board of education meeting. Here are the Glastonbury histories of the...Tags: Special Olympics, Human Interest, High School Sports, Teachers, Health and Medical Professionals
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Brain teasers can help tease out how your brain works
Brain teasers are games or puzzles that challenge the brain or teach people something about how their brains work. Though brain teasers are different from brain-training games in that they aren't designed to progressively strengthen specific cognitive...
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Joyce Brothers, Cornell University, Religion and Belief, NBC (tv network), Obituaries
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College grads, maximize your 20s before it's too late
I have a particular -- er, peculiar? -- passion for commencement speeches. When Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick spoke at my bother's graduation a few years ago, I was re-energized for months, and now I seek out notable commencement speeches on YouTube...
Tags: Education, Media Industry, Deval Patrick, Colleges and Universities, Health and Medical Professionals
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Health professionals split over allowing psychologists to prescribe drugs
Week in and week out for the last five years, Marlin Hoover has boarded a plane for New Mexico, where he sees patients Monday through Wednesday. Then, the psychologist flies home Thursday to treat patients at his southwest suburban office in Tinley Park....
Tags: Springfield, General Practitioners, Don Harmon, Mental Health, Psychiatry
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Star's preventive surgery sparks breast cancer debate
Angelina Jolie's announcement Tuesday that a genetic predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer led her to undergo a preventive double mastectomy has raised both awareness about the procedure and concerns among physicians and other experts. The actress...
Tags: Breast Cancer, General Practitioners, Angelina Jolie, Colleges and Universities, Celebrities
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A balanced guide to success
The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition. Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only curbs damaging...
Tags: Book, Human Interest, University of Pennsylvania, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Richard Branson
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Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Psychotherapy, Health Treatments, University of Chicago, Religion and Belief, Nazi Party
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The Roanoke Times, Va., Dadline column
The Roanoke Times, Va.Every morning during breakfast before the school day starts, my 6-year-old daughter and I pore over the comics section of this newspaper. I read the funnies to her, usually sticking to the kid-friendly "Red and Rover," "Garfield," "Family Circus" and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bombings, Stress, Health and Medical Professionals, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Steve Lopez: She worked past age 100, inspired many more
In 40 years of interviews as a journalist, I've never met anyone quite like Hedda Bolgar. The pioneering psychoanalyst, who attended lectures by Sigmund Freud as a young woman and fled Vienna for the United States when the Third Reich entered Austria,...
Tags: Psychotherapy, Robert J. Lopez, Sigmund Freud, Mother's Day, Health and Medical Professionals
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Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist
Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...
Tags: Joyce Brothers, Cornell University, Religion and Belief, NBC (tv network), Long Island
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