According to Eddie Izzard, if you kill someone, that’s murder and you go to jail for the rest of your life. If you kill ten people, you’re sent to Texas where the officials hit you with a brick on the head. Kill twenty people, and the judge will throw you into a mental hospital where [...]... Nordgren, L., & Morris McDonnell, M. (2010) The Scope-Severity Paradox: Why Doing Mor
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September 15, 2010
why millions of deaths can be “just” a statistic…
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August 12, 2010
Very Severely Stupid About Depression
An unassuming little paper in the latest Journal of Affective Disorders may change everything in the debate over antidepressants: Not as golden as standards should be: Interpretation of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression.Bear with me and I'll explain. It's less boring than it looks, trust me.The Hamilton Scale (HAMD) is the most common system for rating the severity of depression. If you're
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February 13, 2010
What is severe autism?
We have to wait, patiently, for the DSM-V people to cough up their system for ranking and classifying all autistics according autism "severity." In the meantime, some recently reported data are worth mulling over. First, here is the most current DSM-V autism "severity" ranking-system proposal, and here is my response, including information about instruments commonly claimed to measure autism "sev
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January 7, 2010
Antidepressant medications versus placebos: The impact of depression severity
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. In a number of past PBB articles, we have discussed the mountains of research supporting the efficacy and effectiveness of antidepressant medications in the treatment of depression. Within the past 24 hours, both Thomas Joiner...
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June 3, 2009
Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is Effective In Treating Chronic Insomnia (Science Daily)
A new study demonstrates that online cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic insomnia significantly improves insomnia severity, daytime fatigue and sleep quality. Online treatment also reduces erroneous beliefs about sleep and pre-sleep mental arousal.
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May 26, 2009
Why we drink: A discussion of the Drinking Motives Questionnaire
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. A behavior can often look very different across different individuals. Some individuals differ in the frequency of a particular behavior whereas others differ on the severity of that behavior. As we have discussed in reference...
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