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July 6, 2007
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Nielsen attends hearing
The Lewiston Sun Journal Tue, 03 Jul 2007 2:04 AM PDT
PORTLAND - A man charged with killing three women and a man over Labor
Day weekend suffers from a personality disorder but not a major mental
illness, the director of a state agency that oversees psychological
evaluations in criminal cases said Monday.
Man jailed for life for stabbing
BBC News
A man is jailed for life for killing another man's partner hours after
his baby granddaughter was fatally mauled by dogs.
Alcohol survey reveals 'lost decade' between ages of disorder onset and
treatment
EurekAlert!
At some time during their lives, more than 30 percent of U.S. adults
surveyed in 2001-2002 had met current diagnostic criteria[i] for an
alcohol use disorder (AUD), according to an article in the current issue
of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Gene Variant Increases Risk For Alcoholism Following Childhood Abuse
Medical News Today
Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop
alcoholism later in life if they possess a particular variant of a gene
involved in the body's response to stress, according to a new study led
by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
(NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Gore Considered Competent for Trial
The Morning News
FAYETTEVILLE -- A West Fork man accused in the shotgun slayings of his
parents in 2005 is still mentally ill but now fit to stand trial,
according to a mental evaluation from the State Hospital.
Brutal rapist jailed indefinitely
CNews
A "callous and remorseless" Edmonton rapist who sexually terrorized a
single mother and her young son has been sent to prison and the key has
been thrown away.
Congress asks for review of discharge process
Stars and Stripes
WASHINGTON ? Members of Congress have asked Pentagon officials to review
the policy on and numbers of personality disorder discharges in the
military to ensure service officials aren?t abusing the process.
Pop psychiatry:
How the media looks at the mind
Lancaster Online
Psychiatrists watch TV and movies just like everyone else and, these
days, there are plenty of issues for them to analyze within popular
media.For starters, it seems as if every other film or TV show nowadays
features at least one character with a mood or personality disorder -
like ...
Study Finds 5 Types Of Alcoholics
CBS News
New research on alcoholism shows that there are five types of alcoholics
in the U.S., and more than half of alcoholics are young adults.
Stabbing accused had 'disorder'
BBC News
A man accused of stabbing a grandfather hours after his baby
granddaughter was killed had a personality disorder, a court hears.
Mentally
ill or a cold-blooded murderer?
BBC News
As Stuart Harling is convicted of a nurse's murder his case highlights
the difficulties surrounding the diagnosis of mental disorders.
Researchers identify alcoholism subtypes
EurekAlert! T
Analyses of a national sample of individuals with alcohol dependence
(alcoholism) reveal five distinct subtypes of the disease, according to
a new study by scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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