Word: normalization
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...built-in chemical circuit breakers that shut off the stress hormones to entire networks of nerves whose only job is to calm you down. The problem, in the context of our always wired, always on-call world, is that they all require that you take regular breaks from your normal routine--and not just an occasional weekend trip. You can try to ignore the biological need to periodically disengage, but there's growing evidence that it will eventually catch up with you. Insurance claims for stress, depression and job burnout are now the U.S.'s fastest-growing disability category...
COULD THINKING ABOUT THOUGHTS IN A new way affect not only such pathological brain states as OCD and depression but also normal activity? To find out, neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison turned to Buddhist monks, the Olympic athletes of mental training. Some monks have spent more than 10,000 hours of their lives in meditation. Earlier in Davidson's career, he had found that activity greater in the left prefrontal cortex than in the right correlates with a higher baseline level of contentment. The relative left/right activity came to be seen as a marker...
...after Hurricane Katrina, Cech asked all HHMI investigators to open their labs to students who were displaced from their normal education experiences, Liu says...
...hasn't kept up with other kids his age - at least not academically, given that he did not attend school of any type while living with Devlin. Fixing that, his mother said, will be one of the family's first priorities as their life slowly returns to normal. "Shawn really wants to go back to school, but before we can get him back in school he has to be evaluated. So that is going to be the top thing we do next," Pam Akers said...
...struck up a casual relationship. We've had to have a talk with him, and tell him that she can't come over to the house unless someone else is there with them, and if they go in his room, the door will have to stay open. All the normal kinds of things you have to tell a young teenager...