Mad in America
DECEMBER 3, 2024
What if smoking isn’t just about addiction or comfort, but about something deeper—something rooted in how trauma reshapes the brain? Research into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has uncovered startling connections between trauma and long-term health behaviors. Trauma seems to have a way of impacting brain function.
Mad in America
AUGUST 16, 2024
I ’m sitting on the floor of my ex-boyfriend’s spare room, rummaging through my forsaken knick-knacks, when a vintage toy poodle emerges. Her faded velvet body feels soft and clean, the black boucle loops of fur on her head and paws are rough and scratchy. Instead, I find him sitting rigid on the couch, his eyes glued to the TV, nothing unusual.
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
A dozen years ago I created a website, now extinct, called ‘Five Years’ From the David Bowie song of the same name (“We had five years left to cry in”). The idea was to see how my attitudes evolved over the coming five years: toward optimism, toward pessimism, or same-same. I was told, and believed, that I would be on this drug for life.
Lawyers with Depression
DECEMBER 3, 2023
Norton, including, The Ten Best-Ever Depression Management Techniques: Understanding How Your Brain Makes You Depressed and What You Can Do to Change It and Anxiety + Depression: Effective Treatment of the Big Two Co-Occurring Disorders. Wehrenberg is a clinical psychologist in Naperville, Illinois. What is depression a response to?
ADDitude
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Epigenetic tags allow each of these cells to “read” only the parts of the DNA sequence that are relevant to them, in order to become skin cells, liver cells, brain cells, muscle cells, and other unique cells with the right structure and functions for their specific role. Yet, genetic influences are less fixed than one might think.
Mad in America
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
As a freelance journalist, syndicated columnist, and former television correspondent, her reporting and commentary have been featured in newspapers, magazines, and TV news outlets across the country. The transcript below has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Amy Biancolli: Diane Dimond, welcome.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
A bill raised in the Connecticut legislature, H.B. 6837 , would change state law concerning shock therapy (ECT or electroconvulsive therapy). It would extend the duration of probate court orders authorizing ECT without a patients informed consent, from the current maximum of 45 days to 90 days. Anwar , Rep. Anwar , Rep. Dubey, 2023).
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