May 17, 2016. Los Angeles, CA. My head still throbbing this morning from last night’s late arrival from Atlanta, I sought solace in the quietude of the Science Section of The New York Times. I was in Atlanta to cover the yearly convocation of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) , [...]
The philanthropists, Sanford I. Weill and his wife, Joan, have made the largest donation in the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) history, to finance a neuroscience center to provide "research on the brain, which is the most complex part of the human body," and is far behind other areas [...]
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDSThe New York Times Magazine4.10.16 More people are living longer these days, but the good news comes shadowed by the possible increase in cases of age-related mental decline. By some estimates, the global incidence of dementia will more than triple in the next 35 years. That grim prospect is [...]
Medicine is full of young recruits writing veterans’ books, war stories full of hopes and fears for the next in line. As in the military, a couple of years’ service provides fodder for a thick volume, a decade enough material for a boxed set. Out of medical school for just [...]
A prominent Stanford neuroscientist and psychiatrist, and his colleagues gives some clues about what makes some people risk-averse and others risk-taking. Answers could have implications for how to treat, curb or prevent destructively risky behavior, like pathological gambling or drug addiction.. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reports [...]
The New York Times will report tomorrow that an experimental drug derived from marijuana has succeeded in reducing epileptic seizures in its first major clinical trial, the product’s developer announced on Monday, a finding that could lend credence to the medical marijuana movement. The developer, GW Pharmaceuticals, Epidiolex, achieved the [...]
In the summer of 1997, I was months away from launching the first consumer magazine about mental illness. My company had acquired a state and federal trademark for the title, Mental Fitness (The Science of Mental Wellness). I had done a long interview with the veteran 60 Minutes journalist, Mike [...]
Other than the obvious onset of the mental disorder itself, postpartum depression is one of those illnesses that is hard to predict, and according to published records, may be even harder to insure against. After a government panel recommended that pregnant women be screened for depression, life and disability insurance [...]
From The New York Times, Thursday, January 28. Scientists reported on Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward understanding the cause of schizophrenia, in a landmark study that provides the first rigorously tested insight into the biology behind any common psychiatric disorder. More than two million Americans have [...]
Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia said on Wednesday that they had indicted five people, including two research scientists, on charges of stealing trade secrets about drugs to treat cancer and other diseases from GlaxoSmithKline, the British drug giant, according to today's New York Times According to prosecutors, the two scientists, Yu [...]