Frontline Medicating Children

Frontline Medicating Children

this is so cool I have to post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk

It'd be fun to teach a music/psychology/anthropology/writing/science class where we could explore some of these dynamics. Octaves and perfect fourths and perfect fifths are the language of birds and cultures everywhere. Plus music is a beautiful demonstration of our humanity.

Novelty

Robert M. Sapolsky, Investigations, “Open Season,” The New Yorker, March 30, 1998, p. 57

ABSTRACT: INVESTIGATIONS about why we reject novelty as we age. The writer, a professor of neuroscience at Stanford University, irritated by his young administrative assistant’s eclectic taste in music, tested whether there any maturational time windows during which we form cultural tastes. He and his research assistants called oldies radio stations, sushi restaurants in the Midwest, and body-piercing parlors and asked the managers when their service was introduced, and how old their average customer was. They found that if you’re more than thirty-five years old when a style of popular music is introduced there’s a greater than ninety-five per cent chance that you will never choose to listen to it. For sushi restaurants, the window of receptivity closed by age thirty-nine; for body-piercing, by twenty-three. The findings were reminiscent of studies that show that creativity declines with age. These studies also indicate that great creative minds not only are less likely to generate something new but are less open to someone else’s novelty. Einstein, in his later years, fought a rear-guard action against quantum mechanics. Psychologist Dean Keith Simonton has shown that the decline in creativity and openness among great minds isn’t predicted by age so much as by how long people have worked in one discipline. Scholars who switch disciplines seem to have their openness rejuvenated. That may be because a new discipline seems fresh and original, or because a high achiever in one discipline is unusually open to novelty in the first place. Or maybe changing disciplines really does stimulate the mind’s youthful openness to novelty. Or it may just be that established generations resist new discoveries because they have the most to lose by them. The explanation is not neurological: in most brain regions there isn’t any dramatic neuron loss as we get older, and there is no such thing as a novelty center in the brain. Given that aging contracts neural networks and makes cognition more repetitive, it would be a humane quirk of evolution if we were reassured by that repetition. There may even be some advantage for social groups if their aging members become protective archivists of their cultural inheritance. But the writer remains dispirited by the impoverishment that comes with this closing of the mind to novelty. If there’s a rich, vibrant world out there, he figures it’s worth putting up a bit of a fight, even it means forgoing Bob Marley’s greatest hits every now and then.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1998/03/30/1998_03_30_057_TNY_LIBRY_000015234#ixzz0nC7mTsgk

happiness

a person with a hard-to-pronounce name (cheeks-ahn-me-hi):
http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html...is a nice "flow" redux: figure 1 ties nicely to "abnormal" psych...anxiety/depression/etcetera)
(he talks about hearing Jung talk when he was a teenager)
at 4 minutes-in he shows a graph that shows the general non-correlation of money & happiness.

and another "interesting" talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_kahneman_the_riddle_of_experience_vs_memory.html
"experiencing self" vs. "memory self" (20 minute video)

many fine resources here:
http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/

a flow article by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/25074

The Americanization of Mental Illness

a fine article that Georgia recommended:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html

Normal

"What is Normal?"

CDC maps on depression & anxiety...

...plus anxiety & depression connections to Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Asthma, etcetera.

http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsBRFSSDepressionAnxiety/

books

fine fine books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=W9jiMO2uVYcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=in+the+realm+of+hungry+ghosts&source=bl&ots=ZPs96njw7i&sig=rvxoR1lKWv8HZ6NDJ26rRXX_Fv0&hl=en&ei=y3bQS4GABofasQPuu5j1Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCEQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q&f=false">In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate


http://books.google.com/books?id=ZmP1q4xFxYUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=anatomy+of+hope&cd=1#v=onepage&q&f=false">The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness by Jerome Groopman

Before Prozac: The Troubled History of Mood Disorders in Psychiatry
http://books.google.com/books?id=8VaYF8pIPxgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=edward+shorter+before+prozac&source=bl&ots=rzXNQFRn9k&sig=FsBIN2508y8P4YeNUJx7nfk0a6U&hl=en&ei=ZYbSS9WfOIGOtAPqxtCCCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Loss of Sadness
http://books.google.com/books?id=oWmtN3wSJmoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Loss+of+Sadness:+How+Psychiatry+Transformed+Normal+Sorrow+into+Depressive+Disorder+by+Allan+V.+Horwitz&source=bl&ots=8sl_0BUYOH&sig=Yoc9sadi8FmyL3vkn_AP1sMaCFI&hl=en&ei=25HSS6yJCIHStgP_kf2EAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

DSM

a simple semi-diagnostic self-test for major DSM categories:
http://doyouneedtherapy.com/

easy to find categories with lists and quick symptoms
http://allpsych.com/disorders/index.html

DSM full index
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/dsm_iv/dsm_iv_index.htm

the numbers of those officially diagnosed:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml

a critique of many aspects of the DSM

http://www.zurinstitute.com/dsmcritique.html

abnormal psych powerpoints

http://www.dmacc.edu/Instructors/acstevens/241ppts/comer5e_lecture_Ch03.ppt


http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/iewhite/powerpo.htm
use one on schizophrenia

http://www.psych.armstrong.edu/faculty/wong/abnormalpsyc/abnpsycpowerpointlist.htm

Depression - Fishbowl articles

"The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Andrew Solomon.
It's a great article that got blown up into his National Book Award-winning book Noonday Demon.

"Manufacturing Depression" (from Harper's) isn't readily online, but an article that covers some of the material can be found at: by Louis Menand about Gary Greenberg and had some amazing insights both emic-ally and etic-ally.

And...
a review of Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon.

and something by Andrew Solomon that came out about the same time as Noonday Demon.

placebo effect

placebo effect
first few minutes of this explains the placebo effect nicely:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKq2udn37j0

a slightly more sterile presentation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udJ31KKXBKk&feature=related

6 minute video about placebo knee surgeries:
http://sciencestage.com/v/11940/the-placebo-effect-knee-surgery.html

article about the increasing "effectiveness" of placebos:
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?currentPage=all

more video (27 minutes):
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4115610193400691959#

and continuing (24 minutes):
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-6942125248944933588&hl=en&emb=1#

and more...

Depression & Sleep Disturbance links

http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/44/2/10.1.full

for teens:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8435955.stm

Depression

From our discussions in class, I was reminded of this interview with the author of Healing through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear, and Despair
http://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/385/through_a_glass_darkly?print=all

Another fine IB psych resource

http://www.peteranthony.org/IB%20Psychology/wordpress-2.7.1/wordpress/

online quizzes about abnormal psychology

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/psych/abn4/quiz.htm

Personality Disorders

test yourself for personality disorders:

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv

Crane's Abnormal Psych resources

http://cranepsych2.edublogs.org/options/dysfunction/

A Beautiful Mind

Beautiful Minds Can Be Reclaimed, op-ed in the New York Times reveals how many folks afflicted with schizophrenia recover and/or function well

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/opinion/beautiful-minds-can-be-reclaimed.html?pagewanted=1

Schizophrenia - Elyn Saks

Apparently Elyn Saks has done some fine reporting of how schizophrenia has affected her life. Her book is called The Center Cannot Hold.
http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/005436.html

A Beautiful Mind

John Nash interview (he talks about A Beautiful Mind in the last ten minuted)
http://nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=429&player=2

Critique of A Beautiful Mind
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-e-levine/irevolutionary-road-a-bea_b_178117.html

Schizophrenia

Zimbardo on abnormal psych (Rosenhan, schizophrenia, etcetera)
http://www.learner.org/discoveringpsychology/21/e21expand.html?pop=yes&pid=1518#
click to the right of "View the program:" (the VoD button)

"The Real Story..."(5 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4R6jln_eZg

Gerald case study Part I (8 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGnl8dqEoPQ

Gerald case study Part II (7 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6h8Ic-I7R0&feature=related

Faces of Abnormal Psychology videos

Faces of Abnormal Psychology
http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/psychology/faces/#

Nova "epigenetics" 13 min. clip.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html

Crane on biological perspective:
http://cranepsych2.edublogs.org/perspectives/biological/