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Its a Timeship, just like the TARDIS. So it can show up at any time.
Personally, I'm alright with the Wells class showing up if they're extremely rare and there's a good in-game story for why they're popping up in 2409. Maybe all its futuristic tech is fried and have to be replaced by current era equipment.
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The Network for Investor Action and Protection (NIAP) has informed Madoff victims they have until December 11 to file the claims to start the lawsuit process.
"The SEC and IRS, through negligent actions and inactions, allowed the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Ponzi scheme to occur, continue and flourish," says NIAP President Ron Stein. "The result was an unregulated scheme that spiraled out of control, costing billions of dollars and wiping out the savings of thousands of individuals who believed they were investing in good faith."
To sue a government body like the SEC or the IRS, a Notice of Claim form must be filed with the agency within two years of the date of the loss – December 11, 2010 is the second anniversary of the disclosure of Madoff's $65 billion fraud. The agencies will then have a six-month period to accept or reject the claim.
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Rob Lee Music has announced the release of Dune 2 Essentials Volume One for Synapse Audio's DUNE 2. It comes with 85 sounds at a special intro price of £10.99. The discount is automatically applied at checkout. This special price will be available until 30th June, 2014.
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AAP1 transports uncharged amino acids into roots of Arabidopsis
Article first published online: 5 APR 2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03045.x
The Plant Journal
Volume 50, Issue 2, pages 305–319, April 2007
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Lee, Y.-H., Foster, J., Chen, J., Voll, L. M., Weber, A. P.M. and Tegeder, M. (2007), AAP1 transports uncharged amino acids into roots of Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal, 50: 305–319. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2007.03045.x
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- Article first published online: 5 APR 2007
- Received 22 September 2006; revised 22 November 2006; accepted 12 December 2006.
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- amino acid transport;
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- nitrogen partitioning
Amino acids are available to plants in some soils in significant amounts, and plants frequently make use of these nitrogen sources. The goal of this study was to identify transporters involved in the uptake of amino acids into root cells. Based on the fact that high concentrations of amino acids inhibit plant growth, we hypothesized that mutants tolerating toxic levels of amino acids might be deficient in the uptake of amino acids from the environment. To test this hypothesis, we employed a forward genetic screen for Arabidopsis thaliana mutants tolerating toxic concentrations of amino acids in the media. We identified an Arabidopsis mutant that is deficient in the amino acid permease 1 (AAP1, At1g58360) and resistant to 10 mm phenylalanine and a range of other amino acids. The transporter was localized to the plasma membrane of root epidermal cells, root hairs, and throughout the root tip of Arabidopsis. Feeding experiments with [14C]-labeled neutral, acidic and basic amino acids showed significantly reduced uptake of amino acids in the mutant, underscoring that increased tolerance of aap1 to high levels of amino acids is coupled with reduced uptake by the root. The growth and uptake studies identified glutamate, histidine and neutral amino acids, including phenylalanine, as physiological substrates for AAP1, whereas aspartate, lysine and arginine are not. We also demonstrate that AAP1 imports amino acids into root cells when these are supplied at ecologically relevant concentrations. Together, our data indicate an important role of AAP1 for efficient use of nitrogen sources present in the rhizosphere.


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So, you don't trust the company (which is a given), but somehow we're supposed to trust that opting-out actually does anything or causes them to delete anything?
If anything, it sounds like the fact that you opted out gave them more information about you and more reason to find more.
Opting out of this kind of shit is like "click here to unsubscribe" which comes with spam to make it look compliant -- they're not going to do it.
I mean, he's talking about logging into his account on their server to see what information they have about him -- I sure wouldn't sign up for this in the first place.
Laws need to change so the default position isn't "company can do whatever it wants without telling you". Of course, they'd scream and howl that it was cutting into their "freedom of speech" or corporate profits, but I don't see why it should be something which they decide how it gets used.
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The Big Book of NDEs is back!
The Big Book of Near-Death Experiences: The ultimate guide to what happens when we die by P.M.H. Atwater is back! This is a wonderful, comprehensive encyclopedic resource full of useful information about NDEs and related phenomena.
The Big Book is now available on-line from P.M.H. Atwater and from IANDS' Shopping Cart. IANDS is now offering a discount for The Big Book to IANDS members.
We also have The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation on the Shopping Cart, also with an IANDS member discount.
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Researchers to investigate what happens when we die
Station WTVR in Richmond reports that beginning in January, Dr. Bruce Greyson and his team at the University of Virginia will participate in a research study where doctors will attempt to monitor near-death experiences as they occur in the hospital, using computers near the ceiling to project random images in places where people tend to go into cardiac arrest. The images will be visible only at the ceiling, looking down.
"We know that 10 percent of people who have cardiac arrest will say during the arrest, they left their bodies and many say they hovered above their bodies, looking down on it," Greyson said. His team hopes to determine whether what the patient saw corresponds to what was shown on the computer.
The article also recounts the NDEs experienced by Dr. Eben Alexander and also Wayne Hart, who said, "There was a perfect sense of peace, of belonging, of being home... [Afterward], everything changed. I was a completely different person."
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AWARE study & two others receive Templeton grants
Three studies relating to NDEs have been award grants in the Immortality Project, including the AWARE study directed by Sam Parnia of Stony Brook University, according to a University of California Riverside report. The size of the individual grants was not disclosed but they average $240,000.
The AWARE study grant will be used to "examine the nature of human consciousness and mental processes during cardiac arrest and their relationship with brain resuscitation".
Another study by Ann Taves and Tamsin German of UC Santa Barbara will include a "quasi-experimental field study" of IANDS to examine the role that NDE accounts and experiences play in shaping and reinforcing the potency of afterlife beliefs in the NDE movement. In the third study related to NDEs, Shahar Arzy of Hadassah Hebrew University will examine the life-review experience reported in many near-death experiences, including its prevalence and relationship to life events.
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Study finds NDE memories are not of imagined events
Skeptics have long proposed that NDEs are dream-like memories of events that never happened or are altered memories of real events which are partly or fully imagined. A recently published study from the University of Liège in Belgium compared the memories of NDEs with memories of others who were in coma without an NDE. They found that memories of NDEs are significantly different from coma patients without an NDE. In particular they have significantly more characteristics, like visual details, memory clarity, self-referential information (being involved in the event) and emotional content.
The researchers propose that NDEs can't be considered as imagined events. which have significantly fewer characteristics. NDE events are really perceived but since the events did not occur in reality and likely result from physiological conditions (e.g., neurological dysfunction), the events are actually hallucinatory (see also ULg video). This conclusion is based on assumptions that are inconsistent with other evidence from NDEs. Other interpretations are possible.
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Parnia interviewed on Fresh Air about his book 'Erasing Death'
Dr. Sam Parnia was interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air about his new book, Erasing Death: The science that is rewriting the boundaries between life and death, released in February. The book reveals that death is not a moment in time, but rather a process that can be interrupted well after it has begun. Dr. Parnia reveals how some form of "afterlife" may be uniquely ours, as evidenced by the continuation of the human mind and psyche after the brain stops functioning.
In the interview, Parnia relates some initial results of the AWARE study: only about 1 in 1,000 patients has remembered an NDE with an OBE component. A number of OBEs were reported but some occurred with no target images installed and some patients looked at events at a different angle from where the target was installed, but still described accurate details. The researchers are adjusting the study. See also excellent article in The Guardian.
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Hobbit Boutique HotelSee all Westdene Hotel in Westdene.
Kick off your shoes and indulge in the luxurious comforts of Hobbit Boutique Hotel. From the warm welcome at the door to the fine furnishing and stylish décor, our suites are fit for royalty. Their serenity is a delight to the soul and tempting to the romantic at heart.
Retreat into our lush garden, expecting to see gnomes and goblins hiding in the ferns and lilies, with the tranquil sounds of a water feature and secluded pool.
The hotel offers nine Luxury Rooms and three Executive Suites. We offer hearty breakfasts in our beautiful dining room and dinner is a unique experience. Dinner reservations must be made when booking, and special diets are also catered for.
We have a small but well-stocked library on the second floor. The Window "cove" seat overlooks the beautiful gardens and there are also some other historical items bearing to JRR Tolkien. Our pool is a must in summer and our unique pub offers a wide range of local and international products.
We can accommodate up to 30 delegates at our conferencing facility, with catering facilities for delegates also available. In addition, we specialize in weddings, birthday parties, private and corporate functions. The hotel enjoys a very good location near all major shopping malls, the city centre, MediClinic and the Loch Logan Waterfront.
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Not what it promises. Definitely not for a business trip. Fittings and fixtures are old and worn out.
What a beautiful, romantic place this is...magical!!
Quaint, characterful place which holds a surprise around every corner. Well equipped, clean and friendly. Everything you want for an overnight (or longer) in Bloem. Quaint pub onsite.
Lovely short stay and pitstop, return trip.
Our family had a wonderful stay at the Hobbit Boutique Hotel. The staff are really friendly and the service and accomodation was excellent. A big "Thank You" for making our stay in Bloemfontein a very memorable one!
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If possible, I'd like to have a phone number where I can reach a member of the Society. I recorded a very unusual bird call this past summer and I can't locate any information on it. I have a fair description of the bird as it flew for the only time over our house.
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July 28, 1999 - Industry News
A bill that passed the Oregon legislature last week abolishing the weight-distance tax in favor of a diesel fuel tax would not require truckers to pay their fair share, say opponents - and they want to take the issue to the voters
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North Carolina's governor last week signed into law a "truck safety" measure that doubles fines for truckers
Tens of thousands of truckers in Brazil have shut down their trucks this week in protest of bad roads, high tolls and fuel prices
July 27, 1999 - Industry News
There appears to be a problem with "long life" or "extended life" coolants used in Cummins engines
July 26, 1999 - Industry News
California Department of Transportation permit writers have recently routed three oversized loads through overpasses that were too low, resulting in crashes and one fatality
Rush Enterprises, which operates the largest network of Peterbilt dealerships in North America, is buying two more Peterbilt dealers
July 25, 1999 - Industry News
Freightliner and TravelCenters of America have signed an operating agreement creating a nationwide truck service network
In the final days of the state Legislature, Oregon lawmakers approved a measure that will replace the state's weight-distance tax with a diesel fuel tax
The American Trucking Assns. Friday announced that it has opened the selection process for members of its 2000 America's Road Team
July 22, 1999 - Industry News
Paccar Inc. posted record sales and profits for second quarter 1999. Sales were $2.2 billion versus $1.8 billion in second quarter 1998. Profits were $139.5 million versus $104.9 million for the same period last year
Paccar Inc., parent of Kenworth and Peterbilt, is set to reopen its Ste.Therese, Quebec, plant in late September.
July 18, 1999 - Industry News
Forty-five years of a truckstop legacy came to a close recently at Kelly's Truck Terminal in Shreveport, LA
Eighteen of the most electronically sophisticated vehicles ever developed - including several heavy trucks - will be part of a special Intelligent Transportation Systems demonstration next Monday in Ohio
An independent trucker pleaded guilty last week to extortion conspiracy for his part in a commercial-licenses-for-sale scheme in Chicago
July 15, 1999 - Industry News
Consolidated Freightways, one of the country's largest less-than-truckload carriers, has stopped paying its dues to the American Trucking Assns. and is no longer a member
The National Labor Relations Board has issued a decision against Overnite Transportation for unfair labor practices
The Oregon House earlier this week approved a bill that would allow the state Department of Transportation to boost the current 65-mph speed limit to 75 on some rural interstates. Truck speed limits would rise to 70
Comdata has signed an agreement with Hughes Network Systems that allows Comdata to become a value-added provider of very small aperture terminal (VSAT) systems to truckstops, travel plazas and card lock customers.
Before VSAT systems were available,
July 14, 1999 - Industry News
An Oregon Senate committee has approved a bill that would raise the state's gasoline tax by 5 cents a gallon and eliminate the state's weight-distance tax. But the bill's chances for passage are slim
Contract talks scheduled to start Tuesday between the Teamsters and Overnite Transportation have been delayed until Wednesday, July 21. Overnite says it needed more time to complete research the union asked for; the Teamsters say it's because of last week's strike
Carriers that want to participate in the Federal Highway Administration's Global Positioning System pilot demonstration project now have until December 31,1999, to submit applications.
July 13, 1999 - Industry News
Volvo Trucks North America has launched a new training program for dealer service technicians
J.B. Hunt will start installing the new Orbcomm/Vantage trailer tracking system on its fleet of more than 14,000 trailers this month.
The Vantage solution will let J.B. Hunt link trailer location and status information directly to its
July 12, 1999 - Industry News
Now that a judge has approved an agreement reached last fall between six truck engine makers and the federal government regarding violation of emissions standards, a class action suit is going forward in California against the engine makers
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The $1.3 billion emissions settlement reached last fall between the Environmental Protection Agency and six engine makers has been approved
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March 9, 2014 Harold S. Koplewicz, MD
Most of us have heard of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" campaign to encourage women in all professions to follow their ambitions and transform the idea of a woman's character and capabilities. Now, with the Girl Scouts, she has launched a new initiative: "Ban Bossy." The aim? Correcting a common (and false) dichotomy: when a man acts like an assertive leader, he's the boss; when a woman does, she's "bossy."
Sandberg wants to eradicate the word from boardrooms and on the playground, because it's toxic to girls and forces them to step back, rather than lean in and get branded as "bossy." I was interested in what kids actually think about "bossy," and what they actually think about each other. So ABC Nightline anchor Cynthia McFadden and I took a trip to New York's Hunter College Elementary School and sat down with 1st and 6th grade boys and girls, in 4 groups.
Everyone agreed: "bossy" isn't a great word, and it is used more often to refer to girls. The girls disliked the word bossy more than the boys did, sure. But here's what's interesting: when we asked the 1st-graders about the word "leader"—"You're a leader, Harry, how does that make you feel?"—they were more positive but not overwhelmingly so. There's a feeling of wanting to be friends and wanting people to like you, not be a leader. And there was a great equality between the sexes in terms of this.
Things change in 6th grade, but maybe not how you would think. Who are the clear leaders? The girls. The 6th grade boys reported them as much more enthusiastic about student leadership and academic-more ambitious and more interested in being the best. They saw the girls as equals but did admit that they were more likely to call a girl bossy than a boy.
The girls could care less about that. Bossy was a bad word, but not a terrible word, and it meant nothing from a boy. It meant nothing from someone they didn't know. But: if someone they cared about called them bossy they'd try very hard to change their behavior, meaning that they didn't want to hurt someone else's feelings. In terms of socialization, girls are more concerned about how people feel, and have more collaboration, and are more socially minded. Boys at this age have a totem pole hierarchy; they don't really care how other people are doing, as long as they can yank the one above them down and pull themselves up.
What does this mean? I think it means that a pivotal time in development—entering adolescence—we have a great model of successful, social, high-achieving young women. At the very same time, we have relatively under-achieving boys, who even admit this, testing out the sort of dog-eat-dog hierarchy that we often see at the top of any profession. Are these things incompatible in adult life—and is "bossy" the reason?
The girls I spoke to had the same question, and were unsure if Sandberg was right. "Maybe that was old times," they said. Their career choices: Scientist, actress, lawyer, doctor. The major problem I saw was a distinct lack of successful female role models in this country, and around the world. And that's where I think Sandberg is really making waves, encouraging women to "lean in," be assertive, engage their professions and their leadership drives. Hopefully our successful adult role models can help our children build a different world.View Comments | Add Comment
Therapy Goes Bananas
March 4, 2014 Rachel Ehmke
When most people hear the word "therapy" they still picture someone lying on a couch talking while their mostly silent therapist takes notes. While this kind of therapy still happens, the science and art of therapy has evolved a lot since the days of Freud. It's moved so far away, in fact, that one psychologist takes patients out to the street, where the task is to walk a banana on a leash.
In a piece for Scientific American Mind, that psychologist, Jerry Bubrick, who works at the Child Mind Institute, describes the kind of work he does with severely anxious children. It's a form of cognitive-behavior therapy, and Dr. Bubrick gives an interesting history of it, going back to the 1950s, when the first psychologist made the move away from psychoanalysis towards a more active and goal-oriented treatment.
Instead of trying to resolve past childhood issues—how traditional psychotherapists explained anxiety disorders—CBT therapists focus on changing the negative thoughts and behaviors that accompany anxiety. So while anxious kids want to avoid the things that make them anxious, Dr. Bubrick helps them learn to habituate to their anxiety. Enter the pet banana.
For the severely anxious boy Dr. Bubrick was working with, who had been paralyzed by fear of looking foolish around other people, such a thing would have been unimaginable before treatment. But he and Dr. Bubrick worked up to it, getting used to feeling anxious during more mundane things—asking strangers questions, asking strangers questions while in a ridiculous wig, ordering coffee at Starbucks in the wig, and so on.
Dr. Bubrick goes into more detail in the story, explaining how the therapy works and giving several patient case histories. It's a must-read for people who want to know more about what really great therapy—especially for kids—can look like. It's behind a pay wall at Scientific American Mind, but you can read it for free if you use this link.View Comments | Add Comment
John Travolta, Dyslexia and the Oscars
March 4, 2014 Beth Arky
Two days after the Oscars, people are still buzzing about the way John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel's name—only now, dyslexia is part of the quickly moving story. We live in a time when social media has made mockery a national pastime, so it's no surprise that the internet was quick to pounce on Travolta's introduction of "Adele Dazim" before Menzel was about to perform the nominated song "Let It Go" from Frozen.
A Twitter account with the mangled name popped up (it's since been suspended) and it wasn't long before Slate had posted a "handy widget" that allowed users to "Travoltify" their own names. (In the name of full disclosure, I am embarrassed to admit that I tried it.)
But now it's Day 2 and the internet is deep into debate over whether Travolta has dyslexia and, if he does, whether the learning disorder caused the gaffe.
If one good thing has come out in the midst of conflicting reports about possible dyslexia and Travolta's claims that Scientology "cured" him, it's this: The brouhaha has brought the common learning disorder front and center.
As Zanthe Taylor wrote for Psychology Today, while Travolta doesn't need her sympathy, "What about all the dyslexics who aren't rich and famous, who have to stand up in front of a classroom, in front of coworkers, in front of professors and bosses, and suffer the fear of knowing they may screw up just the way he did?"
And screwing up has consequences, even if you're not on stage at the Oscars, she notes: "It's extremely common for a child who can't read, write, or speak correctly in public to be labeled as dumb, while he or she may have normal or even extraordinary intelligence by any other measure."
Taylor points out that one of the most insidious problems with learning disorders is their invisibility. "Would we have made fun of Michael J. Fox for mangling an introduction?" she asks. "Would someone with a physical disability be laughed at for stumbling on stage?"
It's because dyslexics appear "perfectly sound in body and mind," she writes, that "their errors are not met with similar empathy."
According to the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity, about one out of five, or 20 percent of all people, suffers from dyslexia, the most common reading disorder, yet many remain undiagnosed and untreated. And learning disorders like dyslexia can lead to impairing anxiety in children, according to Dr. Matthew Cruger of the Child Mind Institute. This anxiety can, in turn, lead to disruptive behavior and depression.
Whatever happened to Travolta at the Dolby Theatre, one thing is clear: More awareness and acceptance of hidden disabilities like dyslexia are needed to improve both learning and the quality of children's lives.View Comments | Add Comment
Rosie Perez on PTSD and Her Road to Recovery
March 4, 2014 Jessica Kashiwabara
Rosie Perez has been many things in her career —dancer, choreographer, Oscar-nominated actress, and AIDS activist—and now she adds survivor to the list. The Do the Right Thing actress recently spoke candidly with TIME magazine about her difficult childhood and what it felt like to be diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In her words, "It sucked," but only at first. Perez gradually accepted her diagnosis and eventually felt relief, a weight lifted off from the years of fighting back.
In her new memoir, Handbook for an Unpredictable Life, Perez dives into her past and writes about growing up in the rough streets of Brooklyn. Her mother, who struggled with mental illness, first left her with a loving aunt and then abruptly placed Perez (only 2 years old) in a Catholic home for children. There, she was surrounded by vicious fights between girls and abusive counselors. Visits with her mother were not any easier, as she writes, "I was always walking on eggshells, waiting for the insanity to hit. And when it hit, it hit hard and fast—leaving deep emotional and physical scars."
For Perez, accepting PTSD was a struggle because she wanted to believe she was over her childhood trauma. But it was "a big part of my life," she writes. "And I've hated that fact. I'm a forward-moving and positive-thinking person, and it was hard to have that albatross hanging around my neck."
Perez's desire to move forward led her to finally seek professional help, something she admits she resisted for years. Dr. Jamie Howard, an expert on PTSD at the Child Mind Institute, says this is common. "A lot of people who experience PTSD are uncomfortable with it because it seems like a weakness," she says. "But you can still be tough and have PTSD—you can be tough by putting one foot in front of the other and living your life with PTSD."
It is clear writing this memoir has been a huge step in Perez's recovery. "Part of the treatment for PTSD is to face traumatic memories, not to avoid or numb them," explains Dr. Howard. "A lot of people do. When you've had this kind of longterm childhood trauma, the narrative is long."
Though it wasn't easy to write the book, Perez says she felt it was a responsibility. "The point is to get it out, to validate my feelings, to communicate how good it feels to no longer live in fear of what others may think, and to share my journey and move on," she writes.
Dr. Howard is glad to see Perez so open about her experiences and believes her story could help change the perception of PTSD. "I think she's really brave and it could really help people," she says, "especially those who grew up in her community, and communities like hers, where it's really valued to be tough."
Many of us will always see Rosie Perez as that hard-as-nails woman in the opening credits of Do the Right Thing, but now she offers a new view of herself—vulnerable yet fighting back for happiness. Here's how she ends her preface:
After a couple of years of therapy, and I don't know exactly when or how it happened, I noticed my depression wasn't there and the PTSD subsided considerably. I felt joyful, secure, and empowered. My inner strength and sense of self had never been stronger. I guess I allowed time to play its role, and I did my part by working hard on myself to grow past the pain. Gosh I sound so full of shit there. Let me be more honest: I grew past most of the pain and continue to do the work. Every day it gets better. xo.View Comments | Add Comment
Adam Levine Speaks Out About His ADHD
Feb. 25, 2014 Beth Arky
Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine is lending his voice to the chorus seeking understanding, acceptance and treatment of ADHD with a new PSA for the "Own It" campaign.
Let's say right up front that Levine was paid by pharmaceutical company Shire, which makes Adderall, to participate in the video campaign. But it's been carried as news all over the country. Guess that's what happens when you're the "Sexiest Man Alive" and engaged to a Victoria's Secret model.
The Voice mentor, 34, told Us magazine, "When I was first diagnosed with ADHD, it wasn't a surprise because I had difficulty in high school focusing. And I think now, people notice my ADHD as an adult on a daily basis.
"When I can't pay attention, I really can't pay attention."
Levine is far from shy about endorsements—he's lent his name to guitars, jeans, leather jackets, fragrances, and acne medication, among other things. And he's happy to bare all for a cause he believes in. In 2011, he appeared naked in a Cosmo UK ad to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer.
Still, it is nice to see Levine acknowledging that he had ADHD as a kid, and he didn't outgrow it—as more than one third of kids don't.
"It was affecting my career the way it had affected me in school," he wrote in an earlier piece in ADDitude magazine, so he saw a doctor and learned that he still had ADHD.
And that's the advice he gives others in the new video: If you think you have a problem, go see a doctor. There's a quiz with the video to help you decide, which we're told was developed by PsychCentral.View Comments | Add Comment
Fear of Vomiting and Exposure Therapy
Feb. 25, 2014 Caroline Miller
The fear of vomiting is a very, very common one in the world of anxiety disorders. Scott Stossel, in his bestseller, My Age of Anxiety, makes it clear that it's not just a matter of feeling queasy at the thought of vomiting (who doesn't feel that way?) but an anxiety so toxic you find yourself arranging your life meticulously, painstakingly to avoid it. The challenge is that this phobia can ambush you practically anywhere—if you think about it, where could you not, hypothetically, vomit?
So it's not surprising that one of the most dramatic parts of the book (and, in shortened form, the Atlantic excerpt) is Stossel's account of his misadventure with what he calls exposure therapy, designed to rid him of his vomiting phobia. It turns into a disaster when the ipecac he takes to make him vomit—in order to diminish the massive anxiety attached to it—fails to make him vomit. Instead, it just makes him violently ill, curled on the floor of a clinic bathroom for hours on end, and more anxious than before. (He notes, by way of humor, that the fiasco did succeed in making his therapist vomit.)
I mention this because the scene is so vividly memorable that I worry that it will give exposure therapy a bad name. And it's so unlike the kind of exposure therapy we're familiar with at the Child Mind Institute that I asked Dr. Jerry Bubrick, an expert in treating anxiety, what might have gone wrong in Stossel's case.
Dr. Bubrick notes that most exposure therapy works by introducing the source of the fear in tiny increments, so that the patient learns to tolerate them one at a time, and doesn't move from one to the next until he is so over being anxious at each step that he is actually bored. The patient and doctor create a hierarchy of fears that run from, say, writing the word vomit to watching a video of someone vomiting, and the patient becomes habituated to each before moving on to actually doing the things that he associates with vomiting—let alone vomiting.
Dr. Bubrick showed me a piece of paper covered with the word vomit that was the work of an 8-year-old he happens to be treating right now who shares Stossel's phobia. This little girl was so anxious at the outset that just hearing the word vomit made her curl into a ball and check out of the session, so Dr. Bubrick said he backed up and started with something easier, having her write the word vomit, first in tiny letters and then progressively bigger—and finally in purple.
There are clinicians, Dr. Bubrick said, who believe in extreme exposures—"going to the top of the hierarchy as quickly as possible." But that could only work, he said, if the patient really buys into the model, has confidence that he will be able to handle the anxiety and habituate to it. That confidence, along with trust in the clinician, generally comes from those earlier baby steps, and it's clear from Stossel's account that he didn't have it.
It takes time and patience. "You can't expect someone to face his worst possible fear and get bored quickly," he notes. "But when I expose patients to things much lower in intensity, that cause much less fear, and they understand the mechanics of exposure, time and time again, and it's working more and more, they'll be much more motivated to face their biggest baddest fear and it will be much more effective when we do it."
Dr. Bubrick notes that he got a picture the other day from the mom of a 10-year-old boy who graduated last fall from treatment for a vomiting phobia. It was a picture of a pumpkin her son had carved for Halloween—and the pumpkin was vomiting.
Dr. Bubrick, by the way, would love to treat Scott Stossel.View Comments | Add Comment
Inside a Parent Training Session
Feb. 25, 2014 Caroline Miller
Practice, practice, practice. It's what parents find themselves urging (or cajoling or harassing) their kids to do when it comes to the piano or tennis. But practicing is also what parents do when they go through parent training. And it's practice that's the secret of the training's well-documented success at diminishing kids' problem behavior.
In a terrific article in the magazine Scientific American Mind, Ingrid Wickelgren takes us inside a session of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) with Dr. Steven Kurtz at the Child Mind Institute. We get to look in on a mom playing with a six-year-old boy who has serious behavior problems. We see what happens when he responds to her commands (lots of very specific praise) and when he doesn't (lots of time in the time out chair, and the back-up time-out room). By the end of the session, everyone is exhausted—but also excited by the progress they've made. In a related blog, you can even hear Dr. Kurtz coaching a mom, via an earbud, from the other side of the one-way mirror.
Wickelgren also takes us back to the origins of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy in the early 1970s, when a clinical psychology named Sheila Eyeberg, who was treating children with play therapy, noticed that in sessions the kids seemed to calm down, self-correct, and try to please her. But they weren't doing the same things for their parents, and the behavior changes didn't carry over at home.
The evolution of the treatment and range of things it's been used for are fascinating. And—to get back to practice—an analysis of many studies into parent training programs, Wickelgren writes, found that "requiring parents to practice the appropriate actions with their children during the training sessions seemed to be critical to correcting parent behavior."
And changing parent behavior, we know, can be the key to changing children's behavior.View Comments | Add Comment
An Intimate Look at Anxiety
Feb. 17, 2014 Caroline Miller
You don't have to be a seriously anxious person, or the parent of one, to find Scott Stossel's new book, The Age of Anxiety, (and the excellent excerpt in the Atlantic) riveting. Stossel's account of his experience with anxiety is so vivid and so candid that it's almost unnerving.
There's the cocktail of Xanax, Inderal and vodka he consumes before making public appearances, to keep from bolting from the stage—which he says he's done. The panicked search for restrooms on a trip to Rome, including one at a gelateria near the Trevi Fountain, "where a series of impatient Italians banged on the door while I bivouacked there." He describes standing at the altar at his own wedding, drenched in sweat, shaking so badly that he has to hold on to his wife to keep from keeling over.
Stossel's anecdotes, which the New York Times reviewer calls "bravely intimate," are valuable in a couple of ways to parents of very anxious children. First, they're a powerful reminder of how physical anxiety is, how overwhelming and debilitating it can be whether you're 5 or 45 years old. They're a reminder of how real the anxiety is, even if the fears that generate it—and Stossel's list of phobias is very, very long—seem absurd. They're also a reminder of how many anxious children (and adults) hide their anxiety and manage to function—even function exceptionally well—at great cost in suffering.
But Stossel also explores all the thorny issues surrounding how we think about and treat anxiety. Is it inherited? Is it learned? Is it a condition of life in the 21st century? In his own family he sees an inherited predisposition to anxiety on his father's side, and in his mother's family, a proudly held conviction that emotion should be avoided at all costs. "Thus, me," he writes: "a mixture of Jewish and WASP pathology—a neurotic and histrionic Jew suppressed inside a neurotic and repressed WASP. No wonder I'm anxious: I'm like Woody Allen trapped inside John Calvin."
In writing about Stossel, Donna Wick, a clinical psychologist and founder of Mind to Mind Parent, notes an interesting thing about the heritability of anxiety. What's actually inherited seems to be what researchers call a "highly reactive temperament," but that doesn't always lead to an anxiety disorder. When parents respond to a highly reactive baby by figuring out how to soothe him, it can "have lasting, long term effects, as we now know that relationships can change the way the brain is wired," she writes on the Huffington Post. On the other hand, parents whose highly reactive babies make them anxious can inadvertently escalate the child's anxiety, and there is more suffering all around.
But Dr. Wick and Stossel both write about the positive effects of anxiety, which can be a powerful motivator towards achievement of all kinds. "So in addition to treating unhealthy levels of anxiety," Dr. Wick writes, "don't forget to appreciate, and even more importantly, teach your child to appreciate the other side of the coin. It will help him understand, value, and ultimately manage aspects of his personality that might otherwise appear 'bad' or negative."View Comments | Add Comment
Lindsey Vonn, 'The Biggest Loser' and the Fat Police
Feb. 11, 2014 Beth Arky
Attacking women's bodies—and self-esteem—seems to be a sport that's never out of season. The latest salvo (and one of the more unusual ones) comes from American Olympic gold medal skier Lindsey Vonn, who is out of the competition in Sochi with an injury but still in the spotlight for bashing women she deems to be too thin and not athletic enough.
In an interview with Self that's getting a lot of attention on tabloid websites, the Olympic gold medalist criticized movie stars' bodies after attending a gala last May with the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Jennifer Lawrence, Beyoncé and Ann Hathaway:
"It was hard to go to the Met ball with people who eat lettuce and a Diet Coke for dinner. It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do. That's always tough. I don't envy them, though, because so many of them are skinny-fat. They have more cellulite than most people. I feel like I need to give them a cheeseburger. It's sexy and beautiful to be strong."
Vonn may think she's speaking out for being healthy, not model-thin, but what she's really doing is trashing other women for cellulite (!) and for not making the same choices she has. It's too bad because her important message about her depression (she's "normal again, now that I'm on medication") was drowned out by her nasty pot shots.
The Vonn story comes days after the uproar over the extreme weight loss of Biggest Loser winner Rachel Frederickson, who shed 60 percent of her body weight from her 5-foot-4-inch frame to go from 260 pounds to 105 pounds. The focus on Fredrickson's "scary," "shocking" loss again diverted attention from the more salient point.
We live in a culture where thin is the goal. Let's be clear here: Loser, which just wrapped its 15th season on NBC, is not a weight loss show, where contestants work to maintain a healthy lifestyle; it's a game show competition where participants battle like Roman gladiators to lose the most weight.
As one style blogger wrote: "Therein lies the whole problem not only with the concept of the show, but the whole cultural dieting complex: This shallow obsession with numbers has more to do with appearance than with actual health, despite protests to the contrary. And that preoccupation with and scrutiny of appearance—even when it's well-intentioned, as in the case of all the Twitter users expressing "concern" over Fredrickson's reveal—ultimately undermines healthy weight loss."
It's a case of your damned if you do, damned if you don't. Don't be too fat but don't be too skinny. And if you think everyone is finding fault with your body, you're right. That's exactly what makes it so hard for girls struggling with eating disorders to recover successfully.View Comments | Add Comment
NFL Prospect Michael Sam: I'm a Lineman, Gay, and Proud
Feb. 11, 2014 Harry Kimball
The Super Bowl may be past, but now we have the more exciting, potentially groundbreaking story of Michael Sam, a top defensive player for the University of Missouri football team who is widely expected to be drafted by the National Football League. Sam just came out in an interview published yesterday in the New York Times. Though professional athletes have come out after their playing days were over, should Sam be drafted he would be the first NFL player to enter the league as a publicly gay man.
There are two ways that Sam's actions can help young people and our culture at large. The first is as a civil rights issue. As Joe Posnanski shows brilliantly in a piece on NBC Sports, the situation Sam finds himself in is eerily similar to that of Jackie Robinson in 1947. Many sneakily pragmatic arguments have come from the NFL coaching establishment as to why Sam wouldn't be a good fit in the pros or the clubhouse—they've all been said before, and they were all proven to be not only prejudiced, but ludicrous. The fact is, the inclusion of minorities in our nation's popular pastimes has had real and society-changing outcomes before, and we don't need to wait until "ten years from now," where one GM put the timeline for change.
But there's one important way in which sexual orientation is not like skin color. Jackie Robinson was not able to be in the closet. And here is where Sam can be another kind of hero—as a role model for kids who struggle with their sexuality and with being honest about it.
We know that kids who don't feel accepted for their sexual orientation are at risk for depression and suicide. And for many of them it can seem impossible to find a mentor who understands. Without guidance and good information, it can feel like peers are not on the same planet. And isolation can be a young person's very worst enemy.
Enter Sam. As a public figure, he is aware of the uncertain future he has brought upon himself in a sport that has been hostile to even the idea of homosexuality. "I'm not naïve," he told the Times. "I know this is a huge deal." And he is also aware of how the media can twist your words, even your persona. "I just want to make sure I could tell my story the way I want to tell it," he continued.
But it is his story about coming out to his teammates, about finding people he could trust and being himself with, that I hope rings true for young people who struggle with a hidden part of themselves. "Once I became official to my teammates, I knew who I was," he said. "I was so proud of myself and I just didn't care who knew."
Thanks to Sam it seems inevitable that some people might soon find it easier to believe that a football player can be gay. Others, that a gay man can be a football player. Both are big steps forward. After he came out to his team, he said, "If someone on the street would have asked me, 'Hey, Mike, I heard you were gay; is that true?' I would have said yes."
That didn't happen, Sam said, for an understandable reason. "I guess they don't want to ask a 6-3, 260-pound defensive lineman if he was gay or not." Here's hoping that it just got a little better for young people of any size who struggle with who they are.View Comments | Add Comment


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