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Childhood Abuse a Major Factor in Adult Illnesses

By On June 10, 2009 · 5 Comments

There is an article in this week’s JAMA on the evidence that much of adult physical illness could be prevented through the elimination of childhood abuse.

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On the Importance of Feeling Sorry for Yourself

By On June 9, 2009 · 13 Comments

Last week I was in Nashville and flew back on my birthday and reflected on that experience, and got some feedback from others. At the time I was reflecting on some memories from my childhood that weren’t that great, and at the time I simply allowed myself to feel sorry for myself and feel the feelings that were associated with the experiences I had had, as I perceived them.

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Live Blogging from Nashville: Honky Tonks, Imaging Science & Birthdays

By On June 5, 2009 · 5 Comments

This week I am in Nashville TN for the Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging Sciences hosted by theVanderbilt Institute of Imaging Sciences in Nashville TN. We learned about how white matter in the brain gradually increases with age but that grey matter increase up until the teenage years and then decreases as a process of pruning of neurons up until the age of 25.

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Psychologists Help Out on U.S. Torture Team

By On May 14, 2009 · 4 Comments

An article in the Spokane WA newspaper The Spokesman Review outlines how local Spokane area psychologists James E. Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen were key developers of the interrogation program used by the military. A local blog in the Spokane area describes in detail the history of how psychologists from the Behavioral Sciences Consulting Team (BSCT) of the military became involved in developing torture techniques like waterboarding

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 3

By On May 12, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the first and second parts of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. This continues on how in my adult life I sought out her history.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 2

By On May 11, 2009 · 9 Comments

In the last post (“Brief History of My Mom, Part 1″) I wrote about my Mom’s sudden death when I was four and half years old. That was a terrible blow for me. She was a radiant person who was described as “turning on like a light bulb” when her friends walked into the room.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 1

By On May 10, 2009 · 20 Comments

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.

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Live Blogging from Dubrovnik: Conference on Consciousness and Identity

By On April 19, 2009 · 9 Comments

This week the travelling blog team moves to Dubrovnik, Croatia, for the Sixth Annual Mind and Brain Conference, where I gave a talk about “PTSD and Brain Plasticity.” One of the main themes of the conference was neurofeedback, and we have conversations about consciousness and identity…

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Bogus Identification of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Military in Iraq Vets

By On April 19, 2009 · 2 Comments

This week in the New England Journal of Medicine there is an article by military research Charles Hoge and colleagues about a topic that has been dear to me heart for some time now. Namely the bogus mis-identification of “mild traumatic brain injury (TBI)” in returning Iraq vets which has resulted in a screening criteria so loose that it applies to almost everyone.

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Capt. Pill Takes Shot Across the Bow in PTSD Wars

By On March 31, 2009 · 7 Comments

Well I thought my last post on PTSD (see “DSM V Team Strikes Back Against PTSD Establishment on PTSD”) might at least flush out who the mystery woman psychiatrist is from the Sex and Seroquel scandal (it didn’t) but it did provoke a reaction from David Dobbs, the author of the Time magazine article (The PTSD Trap”) that I took on as peddling pseudo-contrarian views.

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