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Patients Know Best
Read more: Patients Know BestFile under “about time”: In Reporting Symptoms, Don’t Patients Know Best? “Increasingly, scientifically, we believe that whatever Mrs. Smith says is what Mrs. Smith is experiencing, and it’s important to know how patients themselves feel about how they’re doing.”
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The Stress-Depression-Anxiety Connection
Read more: The Stress-Depression-Anxiety ConnectionA study finds the molecular connection between stress, anxiety, and depression. It’s the corticotropin releasing factor receptors! Should’ve known.
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Life and Death Depression
Read more: Life and Death DepressionA study measures the association between death and suicide to try to understand and predict suicidal behavior: [P]articipants presenting to the emergency room after a suicide attempt had a stronger implicit association between death/ suicide and self than did participants presenting with other psychiatric emergencies. In addition, participants with strong associations between death/ suicide and…
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Late-Life Happiness
Read more: Late-Life HappinessFrom ScienceDaily.com, Researchers Identify Secrets to Happiness, Depression Among Oldest of Old. Quick summary: To be happy later, try more happiness now. While there was no indication that resources affect happiness, past life satisfaction — even individual achievements — was found to have a direct association. Because of their results, the researchers urge caregivers of the…
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L.A. Rehab: Beit T’Shuvah
Read more: L.A. Rehab: Beit T’ShuvahThe L.A. Times profiles Beit T’Shuvah. The Venice Blvd. rehab combines the twelve steps with Jewish spirituality . At the helm, Mark Borovitz, con man turned rabbi–his autobiography is The Holy Thief.