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Dissociation Nation: Half a Brain

Dan Siegel’s webinar “How Mindfulness Can Change the Wiring of Our Brains” which I found by accident in March 2011, says we can heal from emotional childhood damage. And in his own office, Siegel actually used "neuroplasticity" to...

Will $650 Million in Genetic Studies Solve the Mystery of Mental Illness?

[Mina De La O via Getty Images] Duke University professor emeritus Allen Frances, who chaired the DSM-IV task force wrote this for Huffington Post: I am a great supporter of mental-health research but worry that it has lost its sense of proportion and is chasing the wrong priorities. The really glamorous stuff consumes almost all of the enormous NIMH budget and now has behind it the huge addition of a $650-million private donation aimed at solving the genetics of mental illness. Neuroscience...

Thousands of prisoners treated for mental illness

[Photo: AP] The nation's largest prison system has spent more than $36.5 million on psychotropic drugs to treat thousands of offenders in the past four years, according to federal Bureau of Prisons data supplied to USA TODAY. Nearly 10% of the 216,000 inmates are receiving medications designed to treat an array of illnesses, from depression and bipolar disorder to acute schizophrenia. The BOP's disclosure comes as government officials have raised questions about the costs of confining such...

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