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27-10-2008
An art exhibition themed ‘Journey Into the Minds’ depicting artworks by mental health patients is being held at the Annexe Gallery, Central Market Annexe.
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21-10-2008
You're a senior in high school, sitting in math class, when suddenly a voice from the loudspeaker tells you the CIA has killed your parents and replaced them with impostors. Days later you notice strangers watching you. In fact, they are listening to your thoughts.
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21-10-2008
INEVITABLE is the progressive deterioration in the health of an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patient as the years pass by. The emotional and physical toll on both the afflicted person and their family caregivers are tremendous, especially when the patients do not recognise their nearest and dearest anymore - a condition referred to as agnosia.
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21-10-2008
DEALING with losses is an everyday affair in my life as sole caregiver to my mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1998 at age 66. In the early days when mum lost her cooking skills, I removed her wok and gas stove from the kitchen.
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15-10-2008
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has suspended a $9 million grant for a depression study led by a psychiatrist at Emory University in Atlanta. The punishment, imposed in August but only made public today, is apparently the most severe reaction by NIH so far to a Senate investigation of NIH-funded researchers who may have failed to report all of their income from drug companies.
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15-10-2008
When it comes to cigarettes, schizophrenics just can't seem to get enough. They're two to three times more likely to smoke than the general population, and patients have been known to puff through up to four packs a day.
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