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State Senate OKs bill banning 'conversion therapy' for gay youths
PolitiCalSenate votes to ban conversion therapy for gay minors... -
Hoarding, hand-washing and obsessive checking: Which of these is not like the others?
People with a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder can often shake their family tree and find a relative who has also contended with obsessive thoughts, hoarding, repetitive hand-washing, behavior in which locks and stove burners are checked over...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, DNA, Human Body, Brain, Biology
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At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working
Lately I've been wading into streams of mail from readers approaching death. Some are fighting it, some are afraid, some are ready to go.
And then I heard from two readers with an update on Hedda Bolgar. I wrote about the Brentwood therapist three...Tags: Doris Lessing, Health Treatments, Documentary (genre), Human Interest, Genes and Chromosomes
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Antidepressants in primary care: Is this how to treat depression?
Antidepressants, now the third-most commonly prescribed class of drugs in the United States, are routinely offered to patients with vague complaints of fatigue, pain and malaise but who are not classified as suffering from a mental disorder by the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Health Treatments, Mental Illness
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Depression treatment: Better but still not great
Depression affects 1 in 6 Americans in the course of his or her lifetime. And while antidepressant medications have seemingly revolutionized treatment, making the depressed well again is a largely hit-or-miss proposition. A review of advances in...Tags: Chemical Industry, Depression, Health Treatments, Food and Drug Administration, Behavioral Conditions
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Putting the app in therapy
Your smartphone: It's not just for texting, tweeting, waging war against little green pigs and — oh, right — calling people. It's also for making yourself a happier, less stressed-out, more self-aware person. Really, there's an app for that....
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Apps may help, but couch those expectations
"We obviously believe that this technology is nothing short of life-changing," boosts Ran Zilca, chief scientist of bLife, a Los Angeles-based company that markets the Live Happy app. But is there really any evidence that using a mood app helps? There...
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Anxiety treatment: Medication, therapy or both can help
Karen Smuland has always been an anxious person. But after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York's World Trade Center, she had her first panic attack and ended up in an emergency room, convinced that she was dying.
The 48-year-old architect from Bend,...Tags: Chemical Industry, Diseases and Illnesses, Mental Illness, Health Treatments, Pharmaceuticals
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Liking yourself just the way you are
Special to the Los Angeles TimesYou know it's tough out there when fashion and beauty executives think that even a model's body isn't good enough to sell clothes or that a celebrity's natural face isn't up to par, even with makeup. The website Jezebel reported in early December that...Tags: Health Treatments, Behavioral Conditions, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Health Treatments, Lauren Hutton
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Reading L.A.: Growth, mega-projects and Freud
Culture MonsterThe newest post in Christopher Hawthorne's Reading L.A. series tackles growth, mega-projects, Richard Neutra and Freud.... -
MOCA announces 2011 acquisitions
Culture MonsterMOCA is planning to announce today a gift of 122 works from collector Laurence Rickels and to release details on other 2011 acquisitions.... -
For kids with OCD, adding therapy to drugs helps
Children plagued by the repetitive behaviors, irrational fears and intrusive thoughts of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder often get some relief from widely prescribed antidepressants. But when they also get a form of psychotherapy that teaches them different...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry, Health Treatments, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry
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