Category: Mental Health
Next June, UWTV will add six new lectures to its psychology lecture series. The talks, which will be broadcast and podcast, will include two talks each on addiction and the mind, social networks, and language and the brain. The series, the Allen L. Edwards Psychology Lectures, is made possible by a bequest from Professor Edwards. You can [...]
2007 was a slightly safer year in Seattle and King County, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s office. According to the Medical Examiners 2007 annual report, deaths due to homicide fell in King County from 91 in 2006 to 76 in 2007 and deaths due to suicide fell slightly, from 227 to 223. Most [...]
Washington officials consider adoption of a “Guilty, but mentally ill” plea Both Seattle papers have front-page articles today (Dec. 29) on mental health issues in Washington state. Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Carol Smith writes on the “conundrum” facing society when the mentally ill commit crimes.
Sugar causes hyperactivity in children, yes? — No. Suicides increase over the holidays, yes? — No. Poinsettias are poisonous, yes? — No. You lose most of your body heat through your head, yes? — No, again Eating at night makes you fatter, yes? — No. You can cure or prevent an hangover, yes? — Unfortunately, no. Those, at least, are the [...]
hile most women who survive breast cancer find a way to deal with the emotional and psychological aspects of having the disease and put the experience behind them, about one in ten will continue to struggle for many years to understand why they developed cancer, Seattle researchers report in the current issue of the journal Women & Health.
The King County Council will vote next Monday on a plan that will use $50 million a year of sales tax revenues to fund programs that will direct people with mental illness and drug dependency to treatment programs and social services instead of jails and hospitals.
For many years scientists have been trying to find a genetic cause for schizophrenia, a devastating brain disorder that affects 1 in 100 Americans. People with schizophrenia may hear voices, see things that are not there and have other delusions. The risk for developing schizophrenia seems to run in some families, so researchers have thought [...]
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