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Mental Health Awareness Week

Submitted by Kaye on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 2:52pm

October 2-8 is Mental Health Awareness Week.  For more info on events and programs, check out their website  http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=mental_illness_awareness_week

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Sex and Gender Differences in Cognition and Neurobiology

Submitted by Kaye on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 11:38am

I just received an announcement about this very relevant conference that is being held at Drexel University College of Medicine on Thursday, October 27, 2011 from 9 am - 4 pm.  Regisration is free.  Please see the website for more information. 

September 11 2001 to September 11 2011: Thoughts on the Last Decade and the Future

Serendip provided an on-line forum for public conversation immediately following the events of September 11 2001 and has encouraged further public conversation in several additional forums since (see box to right). Now ten years after September 11 2001, we are considering, again, where we have been and, based on that, where we want to go next and how we might get there.

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The Role of Humor in Adaptation

Submitted by AnnaP on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 4:56pm

In Anne Dalke’s discussion section, we discussed the role of humor in Adaptation and in evolution as a whole. We started off with the idea that maybe Adaptation is telling us that humor is key in evolution because it makes us more resilient. Charlie Kaufman is depicted as anxiety-ridden, miserable, constantly suffering from an existential crisis, and unsuccessful. He is obsessed with creating the perfect movie and drives himself nuts with it. Donald Kaufman is depicted as a much more carefree, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants guy, and (ironically?) it is his ridiculous screenplay that is successful. Perhaps it is Donald’s humor that helps him be so much happier and more resilient than his brother.

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Recreating a performance art piece, just for fun

Submitted by Riki on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 4:15pm

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Beginning My Exploration: The Intersection of Disability Studies, Mental Illness, and Literature

Submitted by An Active Mind on Wed, 02/16/2011 - 4:24pm

What brings me to studying disability studies and mental illness in relation to literature?  The summer after my freshman year I was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.  My journey with OCD has been a long one.  There was a time when my obsessions and rituals took up nearly every hour of the day, when I could barely leave my house, and when my parents thought they had lost their daughter forever.  When my ability to function was quickly declining, I decided to take a medical leave of absence from Bryn Mawr my sophomore year.  I enrolled in an intensive OCD treatment program, which gave me back the life I had lost and I was able to return to Bryn Mawr the following year.  

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See no evil...

Submitted by anneliese on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 9:25am

December selection of the Slippery Brain Sodality, discussion started Dec. 5th, 2010

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See no evil...

Submitted by anneliese on Mon, 12/06/2010 - 10:27pm

 

 

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Thinking more about depression as "adaptive"

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Wed, 08/11/2010 - 4:09pm

""I suspect there are features of the higher order organization of neurons that need to be included among the "underlying rules" to achieve a better understanding of depression, both conceptually and for therapeutic purposes."  ... PG, An expanded neurobiology of depression, June, 2009

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