MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'carey'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:40:21 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5130753&cid=t_188007_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fnew-york-times-reports-on-very-atypical-case-of-schizophrenia%2F2011.08.14 Benedict Carey is a New York Times mental health reporter.  In last Sunday’s Times, he wrote about Joe Holt, a man with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.  Mr. Holt was dealt a particularly tough deck of cards: in addition to a diagnosis of schizophrenia, he had a horrible and traumatic childhood with much loss, placement in a facility where he was physically abused, and periods of homelessness as a teenager.  He now has a stable marriage, has adopted children and keeps numerous foster children, and holds two jobs, one as a computer consultant and another as a therapist (if I read that correctly).  He struggles with his emotional life, but my take on this was that this is one extremely resilient man who has waged a successful battle against many demons and his story is inspirational. ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5130753 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:00:00 +0100 5130753 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4862834&cid=t_188007_136_f&fid=35302&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FWhitePebble%2F%7E3%2FuioSAiTyxNM%2F Image via Wikipedia Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey Filed under: books Tagged: Alexis de Tocqueville, Parrot and Olivier in America, Peter Carey (Source: white pebble) white pebble blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4862834 Wed, 25 May 2011 12:28:21 +0100 4862834 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4441973&cid=t_188007_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fat-home-psychotherapy-for-the-super-bowl-fan-football-attention-neurosis%2F2011.02.06 So it’s Super Bowl Sunday and the fans are psychiatric patients waiting to happen — the beer and the beer and the beer, and maybe the fights will break out, and they’ll all end up in therapy. Oh, the angst and the panic, and the pre-game anxiety, and the post-game euphoria or depression. New York Times reporter Benedict Carey talks about treatment options in his article, ”A Home Treatment Kit for Super Bowl Suffering.” Mr. Carey suggests: Breathing exercises are highly recommended and become increasingly important as the football contest nears the fourth quarter, when events on the field are likely to prompt strong physiological reactions, like a pounding heart, hyperventilation, even dizziness. These internal cues, as they’re called, can escalate the feeli... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4441973 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 19:00:00 +0100 4441973 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4151756&cid=t_188007_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fnhbw84wqoVs%2F By Andrew J. CoulsonK-12 school choice programs based on education tax credits are receiving a lot of attention after last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the Winn case. SCOTUS is likely to overturn a lower court ruling in Winn that would have hobbled or killed Arizona’s education tax credit program, and that has some folks consternated. Among the ranks of the tetchy is Kevin Carey of the Quick and the Ed. Jay Greene responds here, and concludes, in essence, that Carey is inconsistently alternating between two criticisms of tax credits whenever one is whacked with a compelling counterargument. Worth a read. Education Policy Meets Whac-a-Mole® is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog (Source: Cato-at-liberty) Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4151756 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:42:52 +0100 4151756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074041&cid=t_188007_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FuR-MPb6DKqU%2F By Adam SchaefferIt’s fascinating to read Progressives as they think through a difficult policy problem. Kevin Drum writes (at Mother Jones!) that we can’t improve education or mitigate poverty: “I continue to think that the biggest problem here is simply that no one has any really compelling answers. . . You can go down the list of every ed reform ever touted, and they either can’t scale up, turn out to have ambiguous results when proper studies are done, or simply wash out over time. . . So is the answer to address concentrated poverty? Sure. Except that, if anything, attempts to address poverty have a worse track record than attempts to improve education. I would really, really like someone to tell me I’m wrong. So far, though, no one has. At least, not to my satisfact... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074041 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:53:56 +0100 4074041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3621755&cid=t_188007_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2010%2F06%2F01%2Fhelp-im-having-a-nervous-breakdown%2F “Help! I’m having a nervous breakdown!!” We’ve probably all have heard these words at least one point in our lives. But what does it mean? As we noted last year, a nervous breakdown is just a general, layperson’s term for a bout of mental illness. But Benedict Carey over at The New York Times examines the history of this phrase, as new phrases have entered the popular vocabulary trying to takes its place. These new phrases include “burnout syndrome” (or just plain “burnout”) and “vital exhaustion.” I don’t think any of these will catch on than the all-inclusive “nervous breakdown,” though, because of its longevity and history (since 1900!). What gives the “nervous breakdown” phrase such power? ... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3621755 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:49:14 +0100 3621755 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3185392&cid=t_188007_106_f&fid=34805&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FAwfulPlasticSurgery%2F%7E3%2Flw2TOgmeCqM%2F Mariah Carey goes through... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit MyWebsite.com for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: Awful Plastic Surgery) Awful Plastic Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3185392 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:35:15 +0100 3185392 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2625951&cid=t_188007_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2FgQtWh2Idm3k%2F Kevin Carey has posted his response to my reply to him, and apparently he just won’t take it from a libertarian that we libertarians see no dilemma in the college-cost problem. At least, he can’t see how libertarians could “think seriously about restraining college costs” and still come to the conclusion that the best way to cut government spending on higher education is to, well, cut government spending. He still insists that the only way to “bend down the long-term higher education cost curve and thus reduce government spending is to increase government regulation.” The mime who is boxing libertarians in must be one powerful illusionist, because Carey just can’t seem to not see a real box. But reading Carey’s post makes clear why this is: He wants desperately to belie... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2625951 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:13:48 +0100 2625951 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1879827&cid=t_188007_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F10%2F15%2Fanother-hopeful-mental-illness-gene-article%2F Yesterday, for no particular reason, The Boston Globe published one of those stories we see at least once or twice every year — we are on the verge of unraveling the genetics of mental illness. Sadly, the article provides no more detail as to why we’re on the verge yet again, a verge we’ve been on for the past, I don’t know, 20 years? Most genetics research into mental illness shows a very, very complex picture that indicts hundreds of mutations and variations on dozens of genes. And, carrying on the misinformation and stigma of mental illness, the article is written by Carey Goldberg from a purely biological point of view, completely ignoring the psychological and social causes of mental disorders: The potential payoffs are great, Scolnick and other researcher... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1879827 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:06:02 +0100 1879827 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1526116&cid=t_188007_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F06%2F17%2Fless-harmful-drinking%2F In a study in the journal Psychology of Addictive Behavior that polled 247 college undergrads, researchers Dawn Sugarman and Kate Carey of Syracuse University examined which strategies were most likely to reduce harm if students did drink alcohol. If the intervention goal is to reduce alcohol consumption, encouraging the use of strategies that selectively avoid heavy drinking situations or provide alternatives to drinking may be most beneficial. … However, if the intervention goal is to decrease the negative consequences associated with alcohol use, it is possible that strategies used while drinking may be beneficial, consistent with the findings of Delva et al. (2004) and Martens et al. (2004). Things like learning to be in social settings without alcohol and learning other stress re... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1526116 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:01:31 +0100 1526116