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NEWS ABOUT: mental illness

mental illness stories: 48 news summaries

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Passenger Restrained After Midair Attempt to Deplane

Crew, other travelers duct-tape man to seat

Aug 26, 07 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A redeye flight from Denver to New York took a frightening turn yesterday when a passenger leaped from his seat and tried to open the rear door of a Frontier Airlines jet. Flight attendants and passengers then restrained the man by strapping him to his seat with duct tape. A... More »

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flight • mental illness • flight attendants • air travel • Frontier Airlines • airplane

Long Combat Tours Take Mental Toll

Brit Study: Alcoholism, post traumatic stress soar after 13 months

Aug 3, 07 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Soldiers who serve extended tours in combat zones have much higher rates of alcoholism, post traumatic stress syndrome and problems at home, a large British study has found. Of those in war zones for more than 13 months over three years, one in four had "severe" alcohol problems, compared... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • mental health • alcoholism • war • mental illness • British troops • soldier • PTSD

Lefty Gene Found, Linked to Mental Illness

Southpaws run greater risk for schizophrenia than righties

Jul 31, 07 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - A gene that increases the likelihood of left-handedness also boosts the risk of mental illnesses like schizophrenia, the BBC reports. Lefties’ brains often differ from righties’ in the location of controls for speech and emotions, scientists say, and the newly pinpointed gene appears to catalyze the switch. More »

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schizophrenia • mental illness • genes • left handed • lefty

Virginia Closes Lethal Gun Loophole

Executive order would have barred V.T.  shooter from buying weapon

Apr 30, 07 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia governor Tim Kaine has issued an executive order closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui to purchase a gun, the AP reports. Effective immediately, Virginians diagnosed as dangerously mentally ill will be added to a national database that gun-store owners use for background checks. The order... More »

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law • Virginia Tech shooter • gun control • Virginia Tech • Seung-Hui Cho • Tim Kaine • mental illness • Virginia • background check

Virginia May Close Gun Loophole

Governor's order would give more mental health info to dealers

Apr 25, 07 6:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is considering closing the loophole that allowed Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung Hui to buy guns despite his dangerous and conspicuous mental illness. A judge ruled Cho mentally ill in 2005, but didn't commit him, so his records were not in the data base dealers consult. More »

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gun control • mental health • Seung-Hui Cho • Tim Kaine • mental illness • Virginia • Virginia Tech shootings

Cho Diagnosed as Autistic,
Say Relatives

Uncle in Seoul says parents didn't have money for treatment

Apr 20, 07 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Virginia Tech assassin Cho Seung-Hui's relatives in Seoul, tracked down by the  London Mirror, report that Cho had been diagnosed as autistic after arriving in the U.S. His grandfather's sister, Kim Yang-Sun, said Cho caused his mother "a lot of problems"  as a child and "never... More »

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health • autism • Seung-Hui Cho • mental illness • Virginia Tech shootings

Privacy Laws Tie Colleges' Hands

Mentally ill students shielded by federal regs; parents, others can't be notified

Apr 19, 07 1:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Despite numerous red flags, Cho Seung-Hui was able to live in a Virginia Tech dorm and plot a campus massacre in part because the law limits colleges' ability to seek help for adult students who do not request it. Stalking complaints and a report that Cho was suicidal did not... More »

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Virginia Tech • Seung-Hui Cho • mental illness • school shooting • Virginia Tech shootings

Docs Too Quick to Cry
Depression

Study finds almost any negative emotion seems to prompt medication

Apr 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shrinks are too quick to term patients clinically depressed, says a new study reported in the Washington Post. Researchers argue that a quarter of "acute grief reactions," the standard symptom of depression, may in fact constitute normal responses to stress; they blame the bloated psychopharmaceutical industry, in part,... More »

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medicine • health • depression • psychiatry • disease • patients • stress • mental illness • grief

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