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Behavioral Problems in Children

Kerry — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:33:47 -0600

Behavior problems come in all different sizes for parents with their children, and in many cases the behaviors seem to defy adult logic. All one has to do is a simple web-search of Behavioral Problems to see how many any one search engine can find.

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The Future Role of functional MRI

Kerry — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:05:43 -0600

from Functional MRI

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Psychological Profile

Kerry — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:57:32 -0700

http://www.amfor.net/acs/

Adopted Child Syndrome (ACS)

According to public opinion polls, most Americans agree that adoption is at least a "risk factor" to a child's developmental, behavioral and academic development. The belief that adoption has a psychology of its own is evidenced by clinical studies amassed both prior to and since the late 1940s when the states began making adoptees' origins secret.

That adoptees are prone to specific behaviors referred to as "Adopted Child Syndrome," says famed attorney and Harvard Law Professor, Alan Dershowitz, is just another "abuse excuse" to avoid reponsibility for their actions, including felony crimes. But this is the same Alan Dershowitz who, in his op-ed piece in the LA Times, suggested using "Torture Warrants" -- court ordered to control what Dershowitz calls the "inevitable" use of torture by U.S. law enforcement in the "war on terrorism." He claims torture is "constitutional," regardless that it is also detrimental to a democratic society. He rationalizes that its sanctioning by warrant would make it more accountable and transparent. "If we are to have torture," he argues, "it should be authorized by the law." Notwithstanding that falsification of sealed birth records, and adoption itself, have never been deemed "constitutional" or democratic, Dershowitz seems to be missing the point of our profiling people who are victims of adoption abuse, not as an "excuse," but as a "reason" for the prevalance of sociopathology and violent crime among those whose lives were forever manipulated by adoption politics and lawyers "in their best interests."

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Three Days Grace - Animal I Have Become

Kerry — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:34:40 -0600

The Official video can be found @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbHn1Pgj6Zk

Full lyrics without interruption:
I can't escape this hell
So many times i've tried
But i'm still caged inside
Somebody get me through this nightmare
I can't control myself

So what if you can see the darkest side of me?
No one will ever change this animal I have become
Help me believe it's not the real me
Somebody help me tame this animal
(This animal, this animal)

I can't escape myself
(I can't escape myself)
So many times i've lied
(So many times i've lied)
But there's still rage inside

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What causes "a drug problem"?

Kerry — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:36:11 -0600

I found a website that dares to link the adopted child to alcohol/drug addiction, and I found it very interesting how most blame gets placed on the biologic parents. [As if only alcoholics or drug addicts relinquish their children to the foster care/adoption system!]

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The Scars That Won't Heal

Niels — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:59:47 -0700

THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF CHILD ABUSE

Maltreatment at an early age can have enduring negative effects on a child’s brain development and function

By Martin H. Teicher

Child abuse

Chemical Dumbing Down of America

Kerry — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:43:03 -0600

May 22, 2008
www.fluoridealert.org
www.infowars.com
www.prisonplanet.com

Why is America so brainwashed by the corporate media? Why do we care more about American Idol and sports games than being poisoned with mercury in our vaccinations and sodium fluoride in our water supply? America needs to wake up and get the facts about our chemical manipulation before it's too late.

Music: Pink Floyd - Sheep/Us and Them

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Should a person with a history of "mental illness" be allowed to enroll in a boot camp designed for military service?

Kerry — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:05:35 -0600

* Yes\n* No\n* It depends of the mental illness\n* \n* \n

RADical thinking

Overuse of institutional care for children in Europe

Kerry — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:31:59 -0600

From: BMJ, 25 February, 2006

Children in institutional care are at risk of attachment disorderand developmental delay, but Europe still relies heavily onthis form of care for children in adversity

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Stress in pregnancy hits offspring's emotional brain

Kerry — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:50:16 -0700

Stress experienced by a pregnant female can alter the structure of her offspring's brain, particularly regions vital for emotional development, scientists have discovered. Furthermore, in rodents at least, the effects differ in male and female offspring. That might help explain the different susceptibilities of men and women to emotional and psychiatric disorders, says Katharina Braun, from the University of Magdeburg,Germany. Braun presented the work at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies' annual meeting in Vienna, Austria, on Tuesday. Braun and colleagues at the University of Jerusalem in Israel studied the effects of stress on pregnant rats. If they become stressed in last trimester of pregnancy, their offspring developed fewer nerve connections in two brain regions that control emotions - the cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex. In addition, the nerve cells in several other regions show different branching patterns to normal, with different effects on males and females. In the hippocampus, an important region that controls memory and emotion, males show an increase in branching while females show a decrease. In the prefrontal cortex, the males develop shorter nerve branches, while the females do not. Braun has not yet tested the behavioural effects of these changes on adult rats, but the results could reveal a possible mechanism for the development of emotional disorders seen in humans.

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My father was in the military

Kerry — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:02:51 -0600

* Yes\n* No\n* Both fathers were in the military\n* I'm not sure\n

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Welcome to Max’s World

Kerry — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:03:28 -0600

Bipolar disorder is a mystery and a subject of medical debate. But for the Blakes, it's just reality.

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Alzheimer's or depression: Could it be both?

Kerry — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:28:57 -0600

Alzheimer's and depression have some similar symptoms. Proper treatment improves quality of life.

From MayoClinic.com

Early Alzheimer's and depression share many symptoms, so it can be difficult even for doctors to distinguish between the two disorders. And many people with Alzheimer's — up to 40 percent, in fact — also are depressed.

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More than 2 million U.S. teens depressed

Kerry — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:39:09 -0600

13 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys affected, federal study says

Reuters

updated 1:50 p.m. ET, Tues., May. 13, 2008

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The Upside of ADHD

Kerry — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:17:15 -0600

Enthusiasm, empathy and high energy among traits the disorder carries

by Marilyn Lewis for MSN Health & Fitness

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