Amanda Kitts lost her left arm in a car accident three years ago, Ms. Kitts has an artificial arm that she can control with her thoughts. Link to read about this new procedure that is attracting increasing attention because it allows people to move prosthetic arms more automatically than ever before, simply by using rewired nerves and their brains. Continue reading
Source: New York Times
 Benedict Carey has written a great article in The New York Times that explores the commonly held psycholocical wisdom of crying as a healthy catharsis.
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Link to read The Muddled Tracks of All Those Tears
Having a “good cry” can and usually does allow people to recover some mental balance after a loss. But not always and not for everyone, argues a review article in the current issue of the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. Placing such high expectation on a tearful breakdown most likely sets some people up for emotional confusion afterward.
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Source: The New York Times
People who survive plane crashes and other disasters offer important lessons on human behavior and how to survive in an emergency.
Tara Parker Pope of The New York Times writes following the disaster that occured yesrterday with the Hudson River landing of the US Airways flight.
Speaking with Amanda Ripley, author of the book The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why
(Crown, 2008), notes that in this plane crash, like other major disasters, people tend to stay calm, quiet and helpful to others.
Source: New York Times
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How does an eating disorder take over someone’s life? Is it a matter of losing control or trying to seize it? Eight men, women and children tell of their struggles with anorexia, bulimia and other forms of eating disorders. Another feature in the excellent series of Patient Voices from the New York TimesÂ
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