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...Other industrialized cultures, like Japan, don't even have words for adolescence... Your position also flies in the face of the ultimate test: common sense. Teens are still completely isolated from adults in this country; their role models are more absurd than ever; more young people than ever are being raised outside the nuclear family; they're living more than ever under the thumb of the fashion and media industries; the "war on drugs" failed miserably, and drugs are still as available as ever. And you honestly think that teen turmoil is the U.S. is declining...
...Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University of Sydney. While patients' brains over-activated in response to fear, they under-activated for disgust. The researchers believe that what they've found in these impairments is a biological marker of bipolar disorder that could be the makings of a test. "We're excited about this because the potential is huge," says Lagopoulos, "but we have to temper our enthusiasm" until further research can confirm these differences as statistically bullet-proof...
...doubt about whether what we're seeing in these types of studies is illness pathology or an effect of drug treatment. And is there a chance that sufferers of straight (unipolar) depression might show the same processing irregularities as bipolar patients? Which would be the death knell of a test purported to separate the two. Malhi and Lagopoulos doubt this would be the case - the two types of depression are quite different, they say-but Malhi adds: "No study has directly compared the two groups... and this would be the ideal experiment." For Malhi and Lagopoulos, it's a reminder...
...test scores and relative academic achievements for the students accepted to the Class of 2011 were consistent with previous years...
...have a class that is the most diverse ever, and academic credentials are just as they were last year,” Fitzsimmons said. “There’s always a negative correlation between socioeconomic background and access to education for high test scores—but we have been able to keep standards right where they were...