Homosexuality Conversion TherapyfirstmutantDecember 11 2004, 08:45:51 UTC
http://archive.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=3740 Monday, December 14th 1998 DENVER -- The Denver Post reports the governing board of the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously on Friday to reject conversion therapy, saying its advocacy and use as a clinical technique to turn gay people straight can cause depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.
The Gay GenefirstmutantDecember 11 2004, 12:35:01 UTC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3735668.stm Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes. This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal. Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate.
Suicide PactsfirstmutantDecember 11 2004, 08:50:28 UTC
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=6983755 LONDON (Reuters) - The growing popularity of the Internet could lead to a rise in suicide pacts in which several people kill themselves together, a leading psychiatrist in Britain said on Friday. Four men in Japan were found dead last month in what police suspect was the latest in a series of such pacts that have claimed dozens of lives in the past two years.
Inborn ViolencefirstmutantDecember 16 2004, 14:38:08 UTC
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,65990,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 In 1995, the Supreme Court of Georgia heard a lawyer make a novel argument. He had read a study describing violent behavior shared by several generations of men in a Dutch family. Scientists had identified a mutated gene shared by all the violent men, and that's what got the lawyer's brain ticking.
The accused, argued the lawyer, might carry a gene -- like the men in the Dutch family -- that predisposed him to violence. (The lawyer's client was on trial for murder.) Therefore, went the argument, the accused did not have free will, was innocent of the murder and should be acquitted.
ADHD Brain "Disturbances" and StimulantsfirstmutantDecember 11 2004, 09:28:48 UTC
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/247b36.htm RSNA: Stimulants Normalize Dysfunctional Brain Circuitry in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Through the use a diffusion of magnetic resonance imaging technique -- diffusion tensor imaging -- researchers have pinpointed the regions of the brain that have disrupted or disturbed circuitry in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). "We also have seen fewer of these disrupted areas in children who have been treated for long-term periods with stimulants drugs," said Manzar Ashtari, PhD, associate professor of radiology and psychiatry, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, United States.
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Monday, December 14th 1998
DENVER -- The Denver Post reports the governing board of the American Psychiatric Association voted unanimously on Friday to reject conversion therapy, saying its advocacy and use as a clinical technique to turn gay people straight can cause depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior.
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Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes. This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal.
Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The growing popularity of the Internet could lead to a rise in suicide pacts in which several people kill themselves together, a leading psychiatrist in Britain said on Friday.
Four men in Japan were found dead last month in what police suspect was the latest in a series of such pacts that have claimed dozens of lives in the past two years.
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Top experts weigh in on everyday questions: Albert Ellis, Elizabeth Radcliffe and Philip Zimbardo answer if some people are really evil.
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In 1995, the Supreme Court of Georgia heard a lawyer make a novel argument. He had read a study describing violent behavior shared by several generations of men in a Dutch family. Scientists had identified a mutated gene shared by all the violent men, and that's what got the lawyer's brain ticking.
The accused, argued the lawyer, might carry a gene -- like the men in the Dutch family -- that predisposed him to violence. (The lawyer's client was on trial for murder.) Therefore, went the argument, the accused did not have free will, was innocent of the murder and should be acquitted.
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RSNA: Stimulants Normalize Dysfunctional Brain Circuitry in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Through the use a diffusion of magnetic resonance imaging technique -- diffusion tensor imaging -- researchers have pinpointed the regions of the brain that have disrupted or disturbed circuitry in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
"We also have seen fewer of these disrupted areas in children who have been treated for long-term periods with stimulants drugs," said Manzar Ashtari, PhD, associate professor of radiology and psychiatry, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, United States.
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