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		<title>Q&amp;A: Author Dan Bergner on What Women Want (Hint: Not Monogamy)</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/06/06/qa-author-dan-bergner-on-what-women-want-hint-not-monogamy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even Freud felt unequipped to speculate about the true nature of women’s sexual longings, but journalist Dan Bergner was bold enough to investigate what science has since learned.  His new book, What Do Women Want?  Adventures in the Science of Female Desire, offers some surprising insights. TIME spoke with him about his discoveries about female sexual desire. What made you want to write this book? I had done an earlier book about desire.  One of the researchers I’d worked with for that book said, &#8220;You need to come to my wife’s lab. She’s doing some fascinating research.&#8221;  That was Meredith Chivers and she was comparing what women say turns them on versus what their bodies say using this little device called a plethysmograph [which, in this case, measures blood flow to the vagina]. That was the beginning of this journey for me. And she found things like women apparently becoming aroused when viewing images of bonobos having sex.  [Yes].  I want to stop right there because it seems to me that that cannot actually measure what women “really” want.  Both men and women sometimes show signs of physical arousal during sexual assaults that they most definitely do not want… Number one, above all, not Meredith Chivers, not any other researcher and definitely not me is retreating even a half degree from, ‘No means no,’ and that’s got to be upfront.  And secondly, as I discuss in the book, the relationship between the body’s response and the mind’s is complicated, really complicated, and I don’t mean to suggest at all that we should listen to plethysmography over what women are saying. But I refer to that [question] as one of many points where researchers and most women I spoke with and I confronted this sense of cultural distortion placed on female desire. So why look at plethysmography? There are two mistakes. One would be to dismiss physical responses like wetness as meaningless and entirely separate from desire; the other would be to say that it always means desire. Where Meredith and I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87818&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/16/qa-temple-grandin-on-the-autistic-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, was one of the first autistic people to chronicle her life with the condition— and is now a bestselling author and well known for her innovative designs for handling livestock. Recently portrayed by Claire Danes in an Emmy-winning HBO movie about her life, Grandin spoke to TIME about her latest book, The Autistic Brain. What most concerns you about the way we work with autistic children today? I’m really concerned about getting people on the higher end of the spectrum good jobs. Autism is a very diverse disorder ranging from someone who remains nonverbal with a very severe handicap to mild autism. And really, half the people in Silicon Valley have got some mild autism. But I’m seeing too many kids today that are really talented and on the high end of the spectrum kind of going nowhere because their skills haven’t been developed. They haven’t learned how to work. When I was 13, I had a sewing job and when I was 15, I cleaned horse stalls. Do you think the label of autism is hurting these kids, making them feel they are limited in a way that someone without the diagnosis might not be? I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone. No surprises. You can’t chuck them in the deep end of the pool, that doesn’t work but she kind of just knew, you know, to get me to do things, like serve hors d’oeuvres at my mother’s parties and just bow and shake hands with the guests. You write a bit about the controversy over how to define autism and how it has changed over the years in psychiatry’s diagnostic book, the DSM. It’s not like having a diagnosis for tuberculosis. In fact, when I worked on the [part of the book about the] history of the DSM and I saw how it was laid<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86607&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Criminologist Adrian Raine on The Biology of Violence</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/23/qa-criminologist-adrian-raine-on-the-marathon-bombs-the-biology-of-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Violent behavior is a complex product of biology and upbringing, and when that violence involves murder and destruction to the extent that erupted at the Boston Marathon, the questions about what drives such aggression become all the more urgent. Criminologist Adrian Raine, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has spent more than 35 years trying to answer such questions. TIME spoke with him recently about the Boston bombings and the seeds of violence, which he explores in his new book, The Anatomy of Violence. The question on everyone’s minds now is why… Most mass killers have mixed motives, but more often than not there is a fundamental grievance, a score that needs to be settled with society. For [the older brother], the earlier questioning by the FBI and rejection of his application for US citizenship could have been a contributing factor that got wrapped up with political ideology and a dissatisfaction with his own life. But likely a complex combination of factors created this toxic mix – likely a biological predisposition to violence combined with social triggers and mild mental illness. What would you expect to see in these brothers’ brains and backgrounds? You can either say that these two men had no pathology and were driven by ideology, or that something was wrong. On balance I suspect the latter. If I could brain scan [them], I would expect to see good frontal lobe functioning that is needed for a carefully planned and regulated attack. But they would also show a reduction in the functioning and volume of the amygdala, which would predispose them to fearlessness and lack of conscience. As with the Unabomber, they may also have relatively low resting heart rates, a marker for violence and stimulation-seeking. MORE: Older Boston Suspect Made Two Trips to Dagestan, Visited Radical Mosque, Officials Say Mass killers come from a wide range of social and psychological backgrounds. But there is frequently social instability. I would also suspect some form of psychopathology. There’s a fine line between ideology and unshakable beliefs on the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85126&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: What the Brain Reveals About the Self — And Self Control</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/19/qa-what-the-brain-reveals-about-the-self-and-self-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Obama administration planning a major initiative to map the brain, there&#8217;s more attention focused on what all of that new information will mean for how we see ourselves and how we take moral and legal responsibility for our actions. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist who directs Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Neuroscience and Law and the bestselling author of Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, provided some insights into what neuroscience can do for us. Do you think there is a ‘real you’? If somebody makes a racist or anti-Semitic remark, is that what he really thinks, but hides most of the time because it’s not socially acceptable? I think when we talk about a person and we use some sort of name or an identity, what we’re really talking about is something like the running average. What we care about, of course, is what the person proves himself capable of doing. Let’s take a different case. Let&#8217;s say someone who wakes up out of anesthesia makes an obnoxious remark. Is that reflecting something about them or is that just reflecting that they have these attitudes in their brains that they’ve picked up from society? What’s the difference? That’s my answer. It’s a rhetorical question, which is there is no difference between what somebody is and what they pick up from society. Those are all intertwined in a way. I mean, half of [ourselves is made up of] other people. Your attitudes or stereotypes, the way you think about situations— even though they belong to you [and] they’re somewhere in your neural system, they are definitely things that you picked up from other people. Presumably, though, most of us would prefer not to have racist words or ideas in our heads&#8230; That’s a good example. When people get damage to their frontal lobe, they say and do all kinds of things that they would not normally ever want to and normally these are inhibited because they want to function well in society and so on. If, God<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82128&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Drug Companies Distort Science:  Q&amp;A with Ben Goldacre</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/28/how-drug-companies-distort-science-qa-with-ben-goldacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think your doctor gets all the scientific evidence on a drug before it gets to market? Not necessarily. Half of the research data on drugs is not readily available to physicians, as the U.K.&#8217;s Ben Goldacre reveals in his book, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients. He discussed the problem— and proposed some potential solutions. What led you to write this book? These are all very well-documented problems in medicine. They&#8217;ve only really been described in the technical professional literature. I wanted to write about them for a broader audience. If you look at the problem with missing clinical trial data, we&#8217;ve known about this for three decades now. And we failed to fix it behind closed doors. Exactly how much data is missing? Overall, for the treatments that we currently use today, the chances of a trial being published are around 50 percent. The trials with positive results are about twice [as likely] to be published as trials with negative results. So, we&#8217;re missing half of the evidence that we&#8217;re supposed to be using to make informed decisions. [And] we&#8217;re not just missing any old half, we&#8217;re selectively missing the unflattering half. What can be done about this? After the book came out [in the U.K.], a Parliamentary Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry was announced to look at the problem of missing clinical trial data. Other Parliamentary inquiries started looking into the problem. We realized that this needed some kind of organizing force, so along with the British Medical Journal and Sense About Science and The Centre for Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University, I set up a campaign called alltrials.net, asking for three things. First thing, we want to know about all the clinical trials that have happened on all of the medicines that we use. Including the previous ones. And that&#8217;s very important. Not just all the ones from now, because that won&#8217;t fix anything for another 25 years. We need to know [about past hidden trials] because 80% to 85% of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=81238&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: What Really Goes on In Drug Rehabs</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/15/qa-what-really-goes-on-in-drug-rehabs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a new book, author Anne Fletcher reveals the good and the bad state of care in drug rehab facilities. Last summer, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University released a report detailing the devastating state of addiction treatment.  The bottom line:  counselors with little education and less oversight are using outdated and sometimes harmful techniques; there are no national standards for credentialing or training counselors and most treatment centers, even those with extensive financial resources, do not always use best practices. In her book Inside Rehab Fletcher investigates the erratic quality of care in some of these facilities and how some centesr are working to improve treatments. (Disclosure: I was interviewed and cited in the book on the subject of rehabilitation for teens). Why did you decide to investigate rehab? There’s a huge number of people with serious substance use disorders (SUD) and  22 million people in this country who have problems. Only 1 in 10 of them go for any sort of help each year.  There’s all kinds of reasons why the other 9 don’t get help but it’s my impression that many people who don’t get help &#8230; are not happy with the treatment options out there. The public is greatly misinformed.  They don’t know anything about rehab.  There’s so much misinformation, so I thought that somebody needs to go inside and explain it to the public and talk to people who’ve been there so that’s what I did. What was the most surprising thing you found? The biggest shocker to most people is the lack of training of the people who provide the lion’s share of treatment, addiction counselors.  In many states, they are not even required to have a college degree. Any other big surprises? I knew that addiction treatment is largely group-based but in visiting some of the high end programs where I thought maybe it would be more individualized, I [found the same thing]. I actually added it up and went through a typical treatment day.  It works to be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80266&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Merry Widows and Some Surprising Truths about Grief</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/30/qa-merry-widows-and-some-surprising-truths-about-grief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Becky Aikman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When journalist Becky Aikman was widowed in her 40s, she felt unmoored.  But she couldn’t find the kind of help that she needed, so she dug into the data and eventually created her own unique support system.  Her book, The Saturday Night Widows, details the trials and triumphs following tragedy — and new research about what really helps the bereaved. How did you manage to get thrown out of a widows’ support group? It was such a strange, alienating experience. I think the person who ran the group had a very set idea about how we should all talk about how sad we were and he encouraged that. He made everyone share their most traumatic and sad memories. It was such a gloomy group and when I said wanted to be more forward-looking, he said he didn’t think that I belonged in the group. I thought that was against therapeutic ethics — I mean, unless you were doing something like taking drugs in a recovery group. I thought it was strange, but I think he really bought into all of these outdated ideas about what it was supposed to be like to grieve. What are some of those outdated ideas and why are they no longer valid? [For example] the idea that you are supposed to sort of wallow in your traumatic feelings because that’s the way to get past them. It’s only very recently that researchers started studying actual grieving people. [Most of the prior work was based on theories about what it was supposed to be like]. And those who study actual people find that most  people are naturally very resilient and it’s good to focus on positive things and look forward and it’s actually harmful to dwell extensively on painful memories. What about the five stages of grief? Elizabeth Kubler-Ross developed that theory, but she was studying people who were dying, not grieving. You might go through [those stages] if you are confronting your own death, but it never made any sense to me as someone who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78741&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A with Robin &amp; Samantha Henig on Today&#8217;s Youth: Are the Kids All Right?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/18/qa-with-robin-samantha-henig-on-todays-youth-are-the-kids-alright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are today&#8217;s young adults struggling for too long, unable to leave the nest after years of helicopter parenting— or are they just reliving the same issues that previously stumped their elders? New York Times magazine writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter Samantha Henig, an editor at the New York Times, try to answer these questions in their new book, 20something: Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck? TIME spoke with them recently about the so-called Millennial generation and its discontents. I was very glad to see that in your book, you consider 20somethings in two ways— one that you title “Same as It Ever Was” and the other “Now Is New.”  Many books and articles on this topic assume everything is unprecedented, but complaints about “these kids today” go back at least to Plato.  RH: Our primary theme is that the 20s are times of making decisions and there are all sorts of doors that you have to start closing.  I think it’s more interesting in a way that it’s always been like this. It’s so easy to forget when you are in your 50s and 60s what things really were like when you were young.  But yes, these complaints are eternal. So, what really is different now? RH: The biggest change now that permeates a lot of aspects of young people’s lives are changes in technology.  There are two kinds: the always-connected internet stuff.  There’s also reproductive technology, which because of its [media ubiquity] is something people are taking for granted. Young women are not at all feeling the age 30 deadline that my peers did [for having children].  The lack of feeling that pressure pushes back the urgency about accomplishing lots of things, not only marrying and having children, but also [issues] about career and where you want to live. SH: [Yes]. [And] the way we’re so aware of the various options out there, what all our friends are doing at any given moment because of texts or checking in on Foursquare. There’s a real sense that there’s endless<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78344&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Willpower Expert Roy Baumeister on Staying in Control</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/14/qa-willpower-expert-roy-baumeister-on-staying-in-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[keeping new year's resolutions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the third week of the new year, and many of us are realizing that those New Year’s resolutions are getting harder to keep. So TIME asked Roy Baumeister, professor of psychology at Florida State University and co-author of the bestselling book, Willpower for tips, gleaned from the latest scientific research, on how maximize self control, especially when you need it most. What does energy and glucose — the fuel our bodies extract from food &#8212; have to do with willpower? Self regulation depends on a limited energy supply. As you use it, [your willpower] gets temporarily depleted [as your energy stores fall], but if you use [willpower] a lot, your capacity improves [because you can change how you allocate your energy]. As the day wears on, people get worse and worse and more likely to give in to temptation. If you are spending a day at the beach, there may be no effect, but the accumulating demands of the day can really deplete you. Is willpower in a sense finite, and its level dependent on energy? Or is there more to it than a biological process? It’s more complicated than the early idea that it’s a matter of just how much [glucose] you had in your bloodstream. The body has a lot in storage and a number of other people are suggesting that it’s really more about allocating resources than about how much is active in the bloodstream. There are a lot of things that can help you overcome [reduced willpower] when you are slightly depleted. Those who believe [that willpower is unlimited, for example] generally continue to perform well [in that situation]. But when people are more seriously depleted, belief in unlimited willpower actually may make things worse. A good analogy is physical tiredness. When you just start getting tired, believing you have unlimited strength or [that you] are superman can help you continue to perform well. But at some point, it really does catch up with you. So if dieters are trying to avoid eating sugar, which<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77757&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/10/qa-oliver-sacks-on-hallucinations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 21:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Oliver Sacks is probably best known as the real inspiration for the caring neurologist portrayed by Robin Williams in the Oscar-nominated film, Awakenings, which was based on his autobiographical book.  That film told the story of his work with patients with Parkinson&#8217;s disease and the double-edged sword of a drug that gave some of them the ability to move and speak after years of paralysis or involuntary movements, but also caused terrible side effects for many.  Now the bestselling author has brought his coruscating mind to Hallucinations, his latest book exploring what happens when we see, hear, feel or smell things that aren&#8217;t there. Do you think everybody hallucinates at some point? I suspect so. Every so often, I give a class with students from Columbia [University] or New York University; if I speak on the matter, especially if it’s a small class and they all get comfortable, after an hour or two it starts to come out that everyone has a few experiences. What is the most common form of hallucination? Hearing one’s name is a pretty common one. And in our society, hearing the phone or feeling it. But I think a hallucination of patterns and geometrical patterns is [also] pretty common. Lots of people have it when they close their eyes right before they sleep at night. You can have it in a migraine. And it’s often a starting point with various drugs taken deliberately or accidentally, therapeutically or recreationally. Geometric hallucinations tend to look like things made by people, like oriental rugs or designs seen in buildings with right angles and straight lines—not things you would see, say, in a forest or in nature… I think the brain will utilize angles and patterns to decipher a natural scene and has a sort of lexicon of these forms. The geometrical things are sort of simpler. They’re symmetrical, they’re repetitive and sometimes are funnel-shaped or whatever. But these seem to be patterns which are inherent in the occipital lobes, in the primary visual cortex. So you’re seeing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=75697&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning from Psychopaths: Q&amp;A With Psychologist Kevin Dutton</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/19/learning-from-psychopaths-qa-with-psychologist-kevin-dutton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s too simplistic to think of psychopaths as being murderers or law-breakers, says Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton. In his new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths, Dutton examines what we can learn from those who lack conscience but are also bold and highly resilient to stress. What exactly is a psychopath? No sooner is the word out of someone’s mouth  than images of [serial killers] like Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer come to mind. It doesn’t automatically mean that you’re a criminal or serial killer.  When psychologists talk about psychopaths, what we refer to are people with a distinct set of personality characteristics including ruthlessness,  fearlessness, mental toughness, a charismatic personality and lack of conscience and empathy. You write that you think your father was a psychopath… It sounds like a crazy thing to say, but there’s no doubt at all about it. He was a nailed down psychopath.  He wasn’t violent. He was a market trader [in the U.K., a person who sells things at an open-air street market].  One of the central messages of the book is that you don’t need to be violent to be a psychopath.  My dad was ruthless, fearless and also extremely charming. He could have sold shaving cream to the Taliban. So what would be an example of his psychopathic behavior? When I was a kid, probably about 9 or 10 [years old], we went to an Indian restaurant for dinner. Just as my dad was about to pay, he suddenly tinked his spoon against his glass and stood up. The whole restaurant went silent. My dad said, “I’d just like to thank you all for coming; some from just round the corner, some from much further afield. You’re all most welcome to join us for a little drinks reception across the road.&#8217; And so an entire restaurant of strangers who had never seen us before were  all applauding wildly because they didn’t want to be seen as gatecrashers. We just took off. He [told me] we’re not going to the pub really and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74169&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A:  Neuroscientist Larry Young on Sex, Drugs &amp; Love Among Voles</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/09/qa-neuroscientist-larry-young-on-sex-drugs-love-among-voles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He doesn&#8217;t claim to have the answer for why fools fall in love, but psychiatrist Larry Young hopes studying prairie voles will help. The Emory University professor studies the differences between species of voles with very different sexual preferences: the montane voles are the serial daters and cheaters of their world, engaging primarily in promiscuous relationships, while prairie voles are more monogamous. By studying their brain chemistry, Young is hoping to expose the biology of fidelity and cheating, and the role that the so-called love hormone oxytocin plays in the way the voles make and break romantic relationships.  TIME talked with him about his new book, The Chemistry Between Us:  Love, Sex and the Science of Attraction. As a scientist, why do you study love? There’s really an important scientific reason for doing this and that is, if you can understand how we relate to each other, how these chemicals help us relate to others, we may be able to tap into that same chemistry to help people with autism and schizophrenia [and other disorders]. My research money doesn’t come to me because I am studying love. I used to totally avoid the word love. The real important lesson here is that by understanding this chemistry we can help facilitate the ability to engage with others. Everyone likes to call oxytocin the “love hormone;” is that an accurate way to describe what the hormone does? It makes such a good story.  They call it the hug drug, the love molecule and now [Claremont University neuro-economist] Paul Zak is even talking about the moral molecule. This is really a problem of the media trying to grab a short headline that people can grasp. It’s not really the love hormone in [and of] itself.  It plays one role in a chemical cocktail and that role is to focus attention on others.  It increases the amount that you look into people’s eyes, for example. [And] it’s not rewarding in [and of] itself.  If you think about a baby and mother interacting and it’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=72585&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Solving Puzzles Is Fun: Q&amp;A with Consciousness Researcher Daniel Bor</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/21/why-solving-puzzles-is-fun-qa-with-consciousness-researcher-daniel-bor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do people voluntarily spend time struggling with problems like sudoku or crossword puzzles? According to neuroscientist Daniel Bor, a research fellow at the University of Sussex in England and author of the new book The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning, it&#8217;s because we take great pleasure in pattern-finding. What&#8217;s more, that conclusion has big implications for understanding the brain, consciousness and even neurological disorders like autism. We spoke with Bor recently. Why do you call the brain “ravenous”? Human brains have an extreme form of consciousness: they’re ravenous for new innovative solutions to problems in the world, ravenous for optimizing our lives, for building pyramids of knowledge. I was trying to capture [the sense of hunger that] extreme forms of consciousness have about searching for knowledge and for understanding. You posit that evolution selected for organisms that are good information processors, that are able to acquire accurate information about the world in order to guide their behavior. One view is that of Richard Dawkins, that it’s all about the selfish gene and that organisms are merely temporary carriers of genes. I was arguing that that [perspective] might miss something crucial about the process of evolution, which is that genes capture something. On some level, they capture something about the world that’s accurate and relevant to [their] own survival: there’s an accumulation of knowledge, of implicit information and representation in organisms, but that doesn’t mean all organisms are conscious. It means that by this stage, 4 billion years after [life first arose], most creatures are sophisticated information-processing devices. So what does that mean for animal consciousness? Some animals may well be conscious because they have an extra layer in their brains that processes information online. When you get to great apes and humans, we have an extreme form of information processing, which I closely link with consciousness when it gets very sophisticated and extensive. How do you define consciousness? In terms of the mind, consciousness is the product of attention, so<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=69745&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Addiction: A Top Doc Explains Why Kind Love Beats Tough Love</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/08/17/treating-addiction-a-top-doc-explains-why-kind-love-beats-tough-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 20:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Gabor Mate is renowned in Canada for his work in treating people with the worst addictions, most notably at Vancouver&#8217;s controversial Insite facility, which provides users with clean needles, medical support and a safe space to inject drugs. Canada&#8217;s Conservative government has tried to shut Insite down, but the country&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled late last year that doing so would contravene human rights laws because the program has been shown to save lives. In Mate&#8217;s book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which was a No. 1 bestseller in Canada, he advocates for the compassionate treatment of addiction, a position that is increasingly receiving international attention. Healthland recently spoke with Mate about the causes and consequences of addiction and what to do about the problem. How do you define addiction? Any behavior that is associated with craving and temporary relief, and with long-term negative consequences, that a person is not able to give up. Note that I said nothing about substances — it’s any behavior that has temporary relief and negative consequences and loss of control. When you look at process or behavior — sex, gambling, shopping or work or substances — they engage the same brain circuitry, the same reward system, the same psychological dynamic and the same spiritual emptiness. People go from one to the other. The issue for me is not whether you’re using something or not; it’s, Are you craving, are you needing it for relief and does it have negative consequences? Do you believe all addiction results from trauma? I think childhood trauma or emotional loss is the universal template for addiction. It also depends on how you want to define trauma: if you want to define it as something bad happening, then it’s true that not every addict [has experienced trauma], in the sense of a death of a parent or violence in the family or child abuse, or any of the usual markers of trauma. But there’s another [way to define it]. D.W. Winnicott [the late British child<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64037&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Humans Have Color Vision, and Other Qs &amp; As with Neuroscientist Mark Changizi</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/06/why-humans-have-color-vision-and-other-qs-as-with-neuroscientist-mark-changizi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are humans able to see in color while many other animals can't? According to Changizi, it's so that we could read the emotions of others<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=63485&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Why Superstition and &#8216;Magical Thinking&#8217; Have Real Benefits</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/06/08/qa-why-superstition-and-magical-thinking-have-real-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can superstitious beliefs — like having a lucky outfit, avoiding black cats or knocking on wood — actually be useful? That’s what journalist Matthew Hutson argues in The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy and Sane. Healthland spoke with Hutson about the power and peril of these ideas. What is magical thinking? The technical definition I use is the &#8220;attribution of mental properties to non-mental phenomena or vice versa&#8221; — treating the natural world as if it had elements of mind or consciousness, or treating your own thoughts as if they could have a physical influence on the world. What&#8217;s an example of magical thinking? For instance, believing that your thoughts can affect reality directly through wishing or the law of attraction. If you think something and then it happens, often you feel a little bit responsible. You see your thought as the cause of the event. Another example is believing that certain things were meant to happen, in divine intervention. Why are people so prone to these types of beliefs? One common underlying factor is the tendency to see patterns in the world. We often see patterns when they aren’t there, and if we see a pattern between what’s going on inside our heads and outside in the world, if an event happens that has particular meaning, you might draw the conclusion and think that the event occurred in order to send your life down a particular path or communicate a message. (MORE: Can You Learn to Play an Instrument at 40? Q&#38;A with Psychologist Gary Marcus) Was this tendency to see patterns everywhere helpful to survival during evolution? There are advantages to it. It’s tough to say whether it’s an adaptation or a byproduct of other adaptive cognitive tendencies. A couple of benefits are a sense of control and a sense of meaning. We have lots of superstitions like knocking on wood, crossing our fingers or wearing a lucky T-shirt that give an illusory sense of control. You say these rituals can<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=61502&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: How a Little Exercise Brings Big Benefits</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/17/qa-how-a-little-exercise-brings-big-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gretchen Reynolds writes the New York Times&#8217; “Phys Ed” column and has been a devotee of physical exercise — particularly running — for decades. In her work, she&#8217;s discovered that while inactivity can drastically shorten the healthy lifespan, most of the benefits of working out don’t require hours of effort or marathon-type training. Healthland spoke with the author of The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer about how to get the most out of the physical activity that you can actually fit into your busy schedule. Healthland: What surprised you most when you looked into the science of exercise? Reynolds: In all honesty, [it] was how little physical activity can make a very profound difference physiologically.  That did surprise me. I used to run marathons and like a lot of people, I really did think you had to run [and] your exercise had be fairly strenuous for a long period of time to get meaningful benefits. The science is very clear that that is just not true. So, what’s the least you can get away with? The very least you can do is probably just standing up, which I am doing as we talk. I now stand during almost every telephone conversation because it’s an easy time to do it.  The science is very persuasive that just not sitting for a long time makes some difference. But, certainly at least 20 minutes a day makes a truly profound difference in your health and dramatically reduces the risk of a whole host of diseases, particularly diabetes, heart disease and dementia, as well as cancer. (MORE: Exercise Keeps Muscles Young, Even in Elderly Heart Patients) Do you have one of those standing desks and can you actually work standing up? I bought a music stand. It’s very cheap. I can read papers I need to read.  I  didn’t invest in [anything] expensive.  It’s very easy actually to coordinate your office so you can stand up occasionally. I can’t sit still for that long<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59736&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Learn to Play an Instrument at 40? Q&amp;A with Psychologist Gary Marcus</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/11/can-you-learn-to-play-an-instrument-at-40-qa-with-psychologist-gary-marcus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can someone with no musical talent learn to play guitar as an adult? That’s what New York University psychology professor Gary Marcus wanted to find out when he turned 40. Along the way, he discovered that the struggle to learn was as rewarding as playing music itself. In honor of national Wanna Play Music Week, Healthland spoke with Marcus, author of Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning. Why did you start this project? I always wanted to make music but at the same time, thought it was completely out of my reach. I had several very disappointing experiences as a child trying to learn. I tried to learn the recorder in 4th grade and my teacher suggested that my talents lay elsewhere when I couldn’t play “Mary had a little lamb.” In graduate school I tried to take something called “miracle piano.” At each point, I got stuck on rhythm. It was no miracle. Then, I started playing [the video game] &#8220;Guitar Hero.&#8221; I was terrible. My wife helped me to play. The first time I ever did anything vaguely rhythmic, I got excited. I practiced the game for a while and made it through beginner and medium. I thought, Maybe I should try a real guitar. The video game was a gateway drug that gave me confidence to try the real thing. What was the most fun part of your learning experience? There were a lot of fun things. The most fun, but also the most scary, was that I went to a summer camp with 11-year-olds and played in a band. On Day One, you had to start writing a song and by Friday, you had to play it on stage. The kids bring their parents to the performance and I brought mine, too. It was frightening but super fun. (Listen to Marcus&#8217; performance here.) What are some of the differences between the way children and adults learn? Kids and adults are differently able. They bring different skills. Adults are more analytical. One thing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=59279&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Past Your Past: Q&amp;A with Therapist Francine Shapiro</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/18/getting-past-your-past-qa-with-therapist-francine-shapiro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychologist Francine Shapiro was a Ph.D. student when she first discovered in 1987 that moving her eyes in a certain way could take the emotional sting out of disturbing thoughts. Pressing her friends and acquaintances into service, she tried the technique on them and soon after conducted the first randomized controlled trial of the therapy in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Today, Shapiro’s treatment — known as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) — is one of the most effective known therapies for PTSD. It looks strange because it involves therapists directing clients’ eye movements by waving their hands or tapping, but dozens of randomized controlled trials have demonstrated that it works. Healthland spoke with Shapiro about her new book, Getting Past Your Past, which offers self-help methods based on EMDR. Why did you decide to write this book? It’s so important for people to realize that there’s help and [not] think that therapy has to be about years and years of talk. People are walking around wounded and not understanding why they’re responding the way they are to the world. They are not understanding why they’re having negative feelings like ‘I’m not loveable, I’m not good enough,’ because of these unprocessed memories that they might not even remember. What happens is that when you get triggered, you get the emotions, but not the images, and then you buy into it. When you’re feeling stuck, when you have negative beliefs about yourself — that’s not the cause of the problem, it’s the symptom. All those negative thoughts that push you into acting in ways that don’t serve you or prevent you from doing the things that you want — the basis is these unprocessed memories. How did you first come up with EMDR? I was using my mind and body as a laboratory to see what things worked. Around the time that I needed to do a dissertation, I was walking along one day and I noticed that some disturbing thoughts I was having were suddenly disappearing. When I<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=57741&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: Psychiatrist Dr. David Healy Defines &#8216;Pharmageddon&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Healy has spent decades delving into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry, where, for instance, drug companies have tried to hide the worrisome connection between antidepressant drugs and suicide. In the psychiatrist’s best-known previous books, The Antidepressant Era and Let Them Eat Prozac, Healy explored the often vexing history of the mental health field and its troubled relationship with Big Pharma. In his latest book, Pharmageddon, he presents an even bleaker picture of the way industry has co-opted medicine in general — not just mental health. Healthland spoke with Healy about his findings. What do you mean by &#8216;pharmageddon&#8217;? At the moment, treatment-induced death is the fourth leading cause of death [overall], and within the mental health field, it’s probably the leading cause of death. It’s a little bit like climate change. It may feel great to have a car, the convenience you get is a thing we appreciate each time we hop in the car and drive down to the market. But the use of cars is contributing to the bigger picture of climate change. In the same way, quite a few medications we take produce good outcomes. But we’ve [had a] climate change in medicine, which runs the risk of completely destroying medicine as we’ve known it. And the key tool in all of this is how companies use the scientific evidence. They construct trials to get the outcomes they want; they only publish positive trials. The study often shows the opposite of what the data actually shows. In the book, you look at how drug companies sell us on reducing risks — like say, high cholesterol — that may not actually do much to keep us healthy because high cholesterol itself is just a marker for cardiovascular disease risk, not an illness itself. If you [look at] statins to lower cholesterol or drugs for osteoporosis, there’s no obvious benefit like there is from wearing a parachute when you jump out of a plane. You often just don’t feel good and you may feel a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=56186&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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