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Google Searches Reveal Seasonal Trends in Mental Illnesses
It's easy to appreciate the seasonality of winter blues, but web searches show that other disorders may ebb and flow with the weather as well. Google searches...
What Really Causes Violence in Psychosis?
The latest study investigates how anger anger associated with delusions — not simply being out of touch with reality — is critical in determining whether...
Most Common Psychiatric Disorders Share Genetic Roots
Diverse mental illnesses may actually represent variations on a common theme rather than separate disorders. A quiet autistic child is certainly unlike a manic...
Should Mentally Ill Patients Be Allowed to Smoke?
Smoking has long been tolerated in psychiatric institutes, but administrators want to ban the habit
Why Yesterday’s Fed Announcement Is a Big Deal
The Federal Reserve is a famously inscrutable institution. Given their ability to move markets, Fed officials have long been in the habit of speaking in careful,...
Extreme-Sports Moviemaking
In David O. Russell's flinty comedy-drama Silver Linings Playbook (in theaters now), bipolar Pat Solitano (Bradley Cooper) returns to his childhood home in...
Q&A: Silver Linings Playbook’s Bradley Cooper and David O. Russell
The actor and director talk Michael Vick, filmmaking as athletics, and the value of going to extremes
Money Talking: How to Decipher the Bipolar Economy
Consumers are confident, but corporations aren’t. What will it mean for the markets? And, what does the sex abuse scandal at the BBC tell us about the ability of...
The U.S. Economy’s Split Personality
Is the U.S. economy becoming bipolar? That’s what it seems like if you contrast the behavior of consumers versus corporations lately. Individual shoppers have...
Obama vs Romney: Who’s Right on China?
The most shocking part of the third debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Monday was how little attention they paid to...
Photo Essays
I Was in LIFE: Kim Novak Remembers
In the early 1950s, right around the time she stole scenes as a pretty young thing driving Jack Lemmon nuts in the oddly titled 1954 comedy, Phffft!, Kim Novak...
