Scientist Chucks Left Brain for Nirvana

Be one of the many many people that have checked out this video. Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist, describes her experience after suffering a massive stroke in her left brain. Her experience, oddly, was ecstatic. A piece about her ran in the New York Times on May 25.
But to really get a sense of [...]

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Time Story on the Medicated Army

Fighting low morale with SSRIs. The gist of the story in last week’s Time magazine is that the army is using SSRIs to combat battle fatigue and low morale. A disturbing conclusion that one might take away from the article is that the use of SSRIs, used to extend deployments, might actually contribute to the [...]

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Child Bipolar Research and Drug Company Payola

Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry alerted me to an article in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s the lead from the Times story:
A world-renowned Harvard child psychiatrist whose work has helped fuel an explosion in the use of powerful antipsychotic medicines in children earned at least $1.6 million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to [...]

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How to Manage a Tantrum

Some further thoughts. I have some further thoughts since this post ran last year.
First, commenting on your child’s good behavior is also reinforcing. This probably applies more to older children, but is worth mentioning. In acknowledging a tantrum you walk a fine line — you don’t want it to become a way for the child [...]

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