Tag Archive | "mental-health"

What Is Happening To Girls?

October 27, 2008 13 comments

All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]

Rat Race

September 12, 2008 3 comments

I read recently about a good way to clinically stress rats. When you want stressed rats, say for an experiment on heart disease, you put them in confined spaces for short periods of time. A few hours will be enough to elevate their cortisol and make them unhappy.
This made me wonder about the effect of [...]


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