Word: summering
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BETHESDA, Md.--My first impression of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) was formed long prior to my arrival there this summer. When I was a kid, "The Secret of NIMH" was one of my favorite movies. It was the kind of film that my brother, sister and I rented so many times from the video store that we might as well have bought it. Actually if I had followed the advice of Nicodemus and his wise band of rats, I would have run away from NIMH, not toward it. Literal lab rats, Nicodemus and company, were the tortured...
...choose NIMH as the place of my summer internship? I was admittedly relieved when I found out that I wouldn't be responsible for any animal experimentation in the lab. But more importantly, I was and still am grappling with questions about the mental processes and their origins. Primarily, I've been struggling with finding the paradigm I'm most comfortable with using to examine human consciousness. Cognitive science is a burgeoning field that employs analytical frameworks running the gamut from computer algorithms to psychological models to biochemical pathways. Meanwhile, these latest tools for thinking about thinking fit into...
...This summer at NIMH, I've faced some tough issues about the direction in which neuroscience and psychiatry are headed. Once the art of the medical world, psychiatry is now the focus of the latest pharmaceutical technology and biomolecular manipulation. The laboratory where I've been working takes a genetic approach to analysis of bipolar affective disorder (BPAD, otherwise known as manic depression) and schizophrenia, each of which is estimated to affect 1 percent of the population worldwide. Deep within the bowels of NIMH, our effort to climb to the seat of the mind had been relegated...
Harvard Man will be released during the summer...
Plymouth County District Attorney Michael Sullivan defended mandatory sentencing, the war on drugs and other Massachusetts crime policies in a discussion with summer school students at the Institute of Politics (IOP) Wednesday night...