Harvard Mental Health Letter articles from January 2003

Harvard Mental Health Letter archives from January 2003

Generalized anxiety disorder: Toxic worry.
January 1, 2003... Anxiety is often a healthy response to uncertainty and danger, but constant worry and nervousness can be a sign of another kind of trouble, internal rather than external. Severe anxiety is a common symptom of many psychiatric disorders, from...

How autism looks.
January 1, 2003... Psychologists at Yale using new technology have found a way to scrutinize human faces through the eyes of autistic people. The results promise to provide insight into the way autism cripples the capacity to grasp the meaning of emotional...

Scared crooked.(scared-straight programs may not be effective as a juvenile crime deterrant)
January 1, 2003... Since the 1960s, juvenile courts and prisons have been conducting programs that require delinquents to visit penal institutions and meet prison or jail inmates. It seems like a good idea, since imprisonment is supposed to deter crime. The...

In Brief - Mental illness and medical care.
January 1, 2003... Three surveys based on Veterans Administration and Medicaid records show that people with psychiatric disorders have a high rate of medical illness and often don't get the medical care they need. One study is based on the records of nearly...