Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Early Relationships and Brain Development as the Core of Medical Practice

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Given the current explosion of knowledge about the effects of early relationships on brain development, I believe that research at the inter...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

Psychiatric "Disorders" in Young Children: Proceed With Caution

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"Mental Health Disorder" are big words to put on a small person. Sensory processing disorder, major depressive disorder, anxiety ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Protecting infants from the ill effects of mental illness

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Three-month-old Jenna sleeps peacefully in her mother’s lap. The cards seem stacked against her. Cara at 17 is struggling to finish high sch...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

The New York Times Thinks About Parents

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I felt that I was in very good company yesterday when my letter to New York Times was published in reference to last weeks op ed piece The ...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

A Third Front in the War on Obesity

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Recently I watched the Academy Award winning film Monster’s Ball . A morbidly obese young boy whose father is about to be executed sneaks a ...
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Proposed Ban on Antipsychotic Use in Children Five and Under

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A study published in February issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry , written by Nancy Andreasen, former editor-in-chief of the Americ...
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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Amy Chua and the role of empathy in parenting

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All this talk about Amy Chua ’s parenting techniques has me thinking about Brandon Fisher , the manufacturer of drilling equipment who presi...