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Brain Scans Reveals Invisible Damage Of PTSD

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

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WASHINGTON — Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-...

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E. Coli: Woman Paralyzed After Severe Food Poisoning; The Unsafe System, Meat

The New York Times | Michael Moss | Posted 10.04.2009 | Green

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Stephanie Smith, a children's dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that firstday, and she finished...

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Are We Really Okay with Electroshocking Toddlers?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 03.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Ernest Hemingway, Australia, Children, Kitty Dukakis, Brain Damage, c.s. Lewis, Sylvia Plath, Electroshock, Health, Ect, Living News
Bruce E. Levine

It is not unusual for psychiatrists to simply prescribe one drug, then another drug, then several drug combinations (called "cocktails"), and if those fail, recommend ECT.

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