Mind and Body - Page 68

November 27, 2015

Dr. Keith: Beautiful, Smart People Are Depressed Too

The suicides of two stunningly successful individuals in two days should be enough to do away with the notion that great beauty or professional achievement or a treasured family and good friends can immunize anyone from the potential ravages of desperation and major depression.

November 27, 2015

Dr. Keith: Inside The Mind of Neil Entwistle

Yesterday, Neil Entwistle greeted his convictionfor murdering his 27-year-old wife Rachel and their 9-month-old daughter Lillian Rose with a subtle shaking of his head, with no tears, no yelling out in disbelief, no terror, no collapse.

November 27, 2015

Dr. Keith: When Cyberfiction Kills

On Monday, June 16, 49-year-old Lori Drew pled not guilty in Federal Court to one count of conspiracy and three counts of using a computer to inflict emotional distress (violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act).

November 27, 2015

Dr. Keith: Take This Trip and Call Me in the Morning

Researchers at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and other academic medical centers scattered around the country are now testing psychedelic drugs like psilocybin, the active ingredient in "mushrooms," to send terminal cancer patients on acid-like "trips."

November 27, 2015

Life After Hillary: Moving on After Your Candidate Loses

With Hillary Clinton set to concede the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, supporters of the former First Lady have a difficult transition to make.

November 27, 2015

Uncontacted: The Isolated Amazon Tribe

Researchers studying the Amazon rainforest in Brazil recently released aerial photographs of a tribe of men, women and children who have had no contact with the outside world.

November 27, 2015

Dr. Keith: 'Sex and the City' Has Real Life Themes

The release of the "Sex and the City_ The Movie" has a Trekkie aspect to it -- something like the reverence with which fans of "Star Trek" greet each new installment. As many as 70 percent of women who say they will be seeing the movie will also be attending social gatherings inspired by the release, at which they can debate the series' best and worst moments, shake their heads at the brashness of the characters and don the fashions made famous by "City" designers, ie. Manolo Blahnik shoes. The fans will be, by and large, women who have never traveled the orbits of the characters -- the storied streets of Manhattan made that much more alluring by the bold sexuality of Carrie and Company.

November 27, 2015

The Price of Distraction

A new report published in the online edition of Occupational and Environmental Medicineputs more data behind what we psychiatrists and psychologists have long known from listening to our patients: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is costing American businesses untold millions in lost productivity.

November 27, 2015

No Place Like Home

The news is, ultimately, about people-individual life stories that make up the story of America.Nowhere is that fact more evident than in news of economic pressures that translate into personal stress and even psychological disorders.When those pressures include foreclosures, the stress can "hit home" especially hard, bringing insomnia, marital discord, major depression, even suicidal ideation.

November 27, 2015

Miley Cyrus' Offer From Playboy: Is the Age of Sexual Consent Being Challenged?

In the wake of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus posing in makeup and not much else for Vanity Fair, Hugh Hefner has stated that he would like to see Miley pose naked for Playboy-when she turns 18. I believe Hefner's offer, albeit cloaked in the disclaimer that Miley has to be legal to strip for him, may herald a challenge to the current age of sexual consent-which is between 16 and 18 in almost all states, lower only in South Carolina (and only when the sexual partners are both young).