The free weekly psychology newsletter
August 2, 2002
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Contents
* Publisher's note
- Working to relax
* Food for thought
- Early air conditioning
- Breaking diabetic ground
* Coping
- Kids and stress
* Psychology News
- Homicide rates rising in three-strikes cities
- Temporal lobe size and schizophrenia
- Eating disorders linked to certain sports
- Smoke-free workplaces help smokers butt out
- Traumatic brain injury likely to lead to psychiatric disorder
* Drug & Herbal News
- St. John's wort extract defeats depression
- NIH funding study of St. John's wort
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^^ On the publisher's mind ^^
This weekend, we camp. It will be our first time since moving to Nova Scotia and we're very excited about it. We've been to Mountain Equipment Co-op to load up on supplies - a new sleeping bag, bug nets to wear over our hats, bug repellent, dehydrated food. We bought a travel badminton and volleyball set from Wal-Mart. It's been a lot of shopping, and hunting to find our old stuff - Thermarests to cushion the hard ground, tent, lanterns. Oh, we're going to have great fun. But here's my question: why does preparing to relax seem to take so much work?
Stay mindful,
Jan
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^^ Food for thought ^^
Early attempts at air conditioning included placing a unit the size of a refrigerator, equipped with fans and filled with ice, in the middle of a living room. Another trial had two tons of ice being dumped daily into a basement storage chamber. A separate unit was installed in the return-air duct of the home's forced-air furnace system and cooled air was distributed throughout. That was in the 1930s.
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Clinical researchers have done the first human-islet transplant on three patients with type-1 diabetes. The transplanted tissue has allowed the diabetics to produce their own insulin in a procedure that was pioneered at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
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^^ Coping ^^
Stress in kids shows itself through stomach aches, headaches, acne, high blood pressure, irritability, becoming withdrawn. They may begin acting out at school or start neglecting their school work. If it isn't dealt with, kids might start to become forgetful or lose the ability to concentrate. It can progress to more serious conditions such as chronic anxiety or depression. What to do? For one thing, parents have to be good role models. They might have to learn to deal with their stress, to not hide it from the family or pretend it doesn't exist.
