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LETTER: Denial Of Mental Illness Not Neurological
I can reassure Drs. E. Fuller Torrey and Xavier Amador that I know of their theory linking anosognosia to schizophrenia [May 1, letter, "Neurological Basis For Denying Illness"; and May 3, letter, "Condition Obscures Mental Illness"]. Anosognosia is a...Tags: Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions
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LETTER: Condition Obscures Mental Illness
Op-ed writer and psychiatry professor Larry Davidson writes that he is opposed to assisted outpatient treatment because he is not aware of data "that indicate that persons with psychotic disorders refuse treatment because they have a neurological...Tags: Mental Illness, Behavioral Conditions, Symptoms
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Judge delays ruling in competency for suspected downtown shooter
Chief Judge Belvin Perry will rule by next week about whether accused downtown Orlando shooter Jason Rodriguez is competent to stand trial. Several reports documenting 43-year-old Rodriguez's mental health were submitted and more than half a dozen...
Tags: Orange County (Florida), Murder, Lawyers, Science and Technology, Mental Health
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LETTER: Neurological Basis For Denying Mental Illness
In response to Dr. Larry Davidson's op-ed "Mental Illness Fallacies Counterproductive" [April 28, http://www.courantopinion.com], it is embarrassing that a professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine can publicly claim that "there are no...Tags: Mental Illness, Yale University, Behavioral Conditions
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NE Ind. man gets 120 years for shooting at vehicles traveling along highway, police in 2004
ANGOLA, Ind. (AP) — A man convicted of attempted murder for opening fire on vehicles traveling along a northeastern Indiana highway and then shooting at police has been sentenced to 120 years in prison. Thirty-five-year-old Donald William Myers III...Tags: Justice System, Angola, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Shootings
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Wichita man sentenced for stabbing ex-girlfriend to death
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsA man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend in front of her son will spend more than 21 years behind bars. A Sedgwick County judge sentenced Yusef Samad to 254 months in prison. In March, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter...Tags: Justice System, Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Bipolar Disorder, Punishment
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Method for making brain transparent may open scientific frontier
Scientists have created a way to make a human brain transparent, enabling them to take deep three-dimensional tours through the mysterious organ and trace its circuitry down to the molecular level. The recipe for transforming cadaver brains into see-...
Tags: Autism, Long Island, Research, Alzheimer's Disease, Science and Technology
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Seriously mentally ill people can't wait another year for lawmakers to change the standard for involuntary commitments
Regarding your recent editorial on making it easier for families to commit a mentally ill relative to a mental institution against their will, Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and some state delegates apparently are missing the urgent...Tags: Mental Illness, Family, Behavioral Conditions, Crime, Law and Justice, Randallstown
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California man gets 17-year prison term in Seattle terrorist plot
A California man diagnosed with schizophrenia was sentenced to 17 years in prison Monday for his role in a 2011 plot to attack a Seattle military center for new recruits. Walli Mujahidh, 34, born Frederick Domingue Jr. in Long Beach, had pleaded...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Court Preliminary, Firearms, U.S. Military, U.S. Department of Justice
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Feds take action over alleged patient dumping at Nevada hospital
SAN FRANCISCO -- Following state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's call for an investigation, federal authorities have taken disciplinary action against a Nevada hospital in an alleged case of "patient dumping" in California. In a letter...
Tags: Medicare, Government, Government Health Care, Brian Sandoval, Executive Branch
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Wellington man and mom accused of forcing man to panhandle for cigarettes
Deputies say Jodi Rosenberg wanted cigarettes. To pay for them, the Wellington woman wanted to use her son, 21, to panhandle for the money, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report. The son, Michael Rosenberg, diagnosed with...Tags: Theft, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Wellington
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Mentally disabled facing deportation win right to free legal help
Immigrants who are too mentally disabled to represent themselves in deportation proceedings are entitled to free legal assistance, a federal judge has ruled. Until now, some defendants languished in detention centers for years after judges declared them...Tags: Lawyers, American Civil Liberties Union, Prisons, Migration, Politics
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