March 2010
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Mind - New Research Focuses on the Power of... →
willw2:
Interesting article on how touch can be more powerful than words sometimes - people should know things like this when they’re trying to communicate…which they usually are….
“A warm touch seems to set off the release of oxytocin, a hormone that helps create a sensation of trust, and to reduce levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
In the brain, prefrontal areas, which help...
February 2010
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“Around 100 studies have been conducted to examine the ‘Werther effect’ – the...”
– —-Perkins, Jane, Psychiatry, Volume 8, Issue 7, July 2009, Pages 269-271.
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Revolution in the Criminal Justice System: Drug...
Seminar series on Legal and Ethical Issues in Psychiatry and General Medicine
Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center
Hon. Donald J. Volkert, Jr.
Assignment Judge, Passaic Vicinage
Superior Court of New Jersey
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
4:00-5:15pm
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16 Things Your Lawyer Won't Tell You - unless you... →
i.e. template billing, paralegal rates, and area of specialty (especially these days when a lot of attorneys I know wont turn down a job) 50% of practice for 5 year good rule of thumb and everything is negotiable.
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Meanwhile, back at the hall of justice-
New York State Assembly Bill A03856
…would stop police and prosecutors from using possession of condoms as evidence that people engaged - or intended to engage - in prostitution is now on the floor of the New York State Assembly. Currently, police and courts can use the fact that a person has or is carrying condoms to prove that they are engaging in criminal activity. Sex workers report...
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toosweet4rnr:
Grandmaster Flash - The Adventures...
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Five minutes. You have it.
monkeyfrog:
The video for the one year anniversary of Violence Unsilenced is up.
Look at the proud faces. Pay your respects to them, and to Maggie, the amazing woman behind the entire thing.
Listen up. Speak out.
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Mind Hacks: Broken hearted →
gracielalala:
The mysterious malady mimics heart attacks, but appears to have little connection with coronary artery disease. Instead, it is typically triggered by acute emotion or physical trauma that releases a surge of adrenaline that overwhelms the heart. The effect is to freeze much of the left ventricle, the heart’s main pumping chamber, disrupting its ability to contract and effectively...
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yeah, so in the new DSM V
Asperger’s Syndrome is out - everyone’s going to have an “autistic spectrum disorder” now.
Personality Disorders are out - kind of. In their place, there’s 5 Personality Disorder Types, each of which you can have to varying degrees, and also 6 Personality Traits, each of which you can have to varying degrees.
Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder - the disease which...
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“Given the success of telemedicine, any opinions out there regarding video...”
– thanks.
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“The Louisiana Department of Corrections last Friday sued every inmate on death...”
– WTF? ABSOLUTE MADNESS?!!?!
Louisiana Sues Its Own Death Row Prisoners
(via photographyprison)
Wow, talk about preemptive.
“Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, Orleans Parish juries have condemned 38 defendants to death. But a recent tally by attorneys for...
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Watch this movie.
monkeyfrog:
I have a thing for Temple Grandin. Have you heard of her? She is autistic, brilliant, and has made arguably a bigger contribution to humane handling of livestock than anyone else in our lifetimes, not to mention poking a giant hole in theories of autistic functioning.
I’ve read two of her books. They were intriguing, because she was able to describe the way her mind works in a way...
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This just in: LOOKY. A poem for me.
monkeyfrog:
PSYDOCTOR8
Felons, neurology, psychopathology
Red-headed spic with her bourbon in hand
Criminal justice, juvenile delinquency
Hip-hop and muscle cars, folks in the can.
Psydoctor8 educates, takes on the system
works for those few of us can understand.
Supports us behind the scenes while ducking marriage
This is one chick of whom I am a fan.
Perfectly frame-able! Thanks...
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Should Disorders be Sufficient for Reduced... →
Reimer (Neuroethics 2008) believes that how we use language to characterize psychopathy may affect our judgments of moral responsibility. If we say a psychopath has a disorder we may reduce their responsibility for moral failure. If we say a psychopath is merely different, we may not reduce their responsibility. Vincent (Neuroethics 2008) argues that if this were the case, a diagnosis of disorder...
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exciting Neuro Law video →
This is an excellent presentation on the growing field of Neuroscience, law and culpability, referencing famous cases. Take a break from lolcats, and carve out 30 minutes for how “the brain controls behaviour, issues of responsibility and accountability in the legal system, decision making, recidivism and rehabilitation, predicting violence, the hype and reality of fMRI lie detectors and...
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How Other People's Unspoken Expectations Control... →
willw2:
People automatically assume others who are more attractive are also more sociable, humorous, intelligent and so on. men were given a photograph. Half were shown a photograph of a woman who had been rated for attractiveness as an 8 out of 10 and half were given a photo of a woman rated as a 2 out of 10. Then the men talked to the women but without seeing them so they didn’t know they...
mabelmoments asked: I would have put the stats for mental illness much higher, but I guess it's what is determined serious mental illness. And good luck with that cocktail party convo opener :)
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One in Every 31 Adults in Prison; Prison Spending... →
What you need to know: “Correction spending is outpacing budget growth in education, transportation and public assistance, based on state and federal data.Only Medicaid spending grew faster than state corrections spending, which quadrupled in the past two decades according to the report today by the Pew Center on the States, the first breakdown of spending in confinement and supervision in...
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Watchdoinwork:
davidcho:
Justice and Jay-Z - ‘On To The Next Dance’
In case you didn’t know, like I didn’t until a week ago, Hovi’s new single ‘On To The Next One’ samples a version of the Justice song ‘DANCE’. Subsequently someone has put together this little video that combines the two, pretty great.
via Clark Kentington III
nods.
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A Study Finds Mental Benefit of Fish Oil - WSJ.com →
willw2:
Researchers in the new study identified 81 people, ages 13 to 25, with warning signs of psychosis, including sleeping much more or less than usual, growing suspicious of others, believing someone is putting thoughts in their head or believing they have magical powers. Forty-one were randomly assigned to take four fish oil pills a day for three months. The other patients took dummy...
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planes, where they shouldnt be
inothernews:
Incredible.
I’m not sure what happened here, but coulda been me. My pic above shows how easy it is to miss something important— photo below is what it looks like when you are going down, fast. From a very high place. In a random field/wooded area due to a broke fuel line…
See? That’s too close for comfort. But they say, as long as you avoid the roads,...
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“Four kinds of support were identified in the study: physical comfort and...”
– Support Your Partner, But Not Too Much
Makes perfect sense to moi…
(via itoodislikeit) 