Marijuana May Increase Psychosis Risk

Using marijuana seems to increase the chance of becoming psychotic, researchers report in an analysis of past research that reignites the issue of whether pot is dangerous.

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RECENTLY I was fortunate enough to be a part of an excellent ten-minute news video prepared by the New York Times' reporter, Adam Ellick. Tastefully called 'Tuning out the Taliban,' the video has created the right buzz amongst young middle-class Pakistanis.

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Alyssa Bustamante, 15, of Jefferson City, Missouri, did not try to hide her desire for bloodshed. Her youtube profile noted that her hobbies were "cutting" and "killing people".

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"It helps explain a lot of things, like why people forget so many dreams," Dr. Hobson said in an interview. "It's like jogging; the body doesn't remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up.

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Ah, another day, another Beck chart.

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Smoking during pregnancy was found to be associated with an increased risk of psychotic symptoms in the children.

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There is a fine line between genius and madness because they share the same genes, scientists have found.

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The Number of Interesting Conclusion

In a fairly recent publishing of research data compiled by the University of Michigan and its colleagues concluding a thirty year study of students extra cirricular drug use,i.e.

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A British study has cast doubt on the supposed link between cannabis use and schizophrenia, but at least one Australian researcher says the study needs more evidence.

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Art student Anna Odell has been fined by Stockholm District Court after acting out a faked suicide attempt as part of an art project.

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"There are all kinds of pitfalls in social life, everywhere we look; not just errors but worst possible errors come to mind, and they come to mind easily," said the paper's author, Daniel M. Wegner, a psychologist at Harvard.

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Growing Opinion That Cheney is Psychotic?

Speculations about Dick Cheney's motives for what he has done and said have a long history. Negative opinions about the man became common over the years.

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Welcome to PalinVine! All Palin All the Time!

Generally, I visit the front page of Newsvine and find a variety of articles and seeds to read. This week, it seems it's ALL about the Letterman/Palin thing - as if nothing else is going on in the world.

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What is it about stalkers and lovelorn loons that Hollywood can't ignore?

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Scientists at the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Aberystwyth universities have created a "robot scientist" that they believe is the first automaton to make its own scientific discoveries. More Articles

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Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology — including, at one point, telephone switchboards.

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The daily consumption of cannabis predisposes to the appearance of psychosis and schizophrenia, and those episodes of psychosis which are fruit of this substance present certain specific characteristics, both before their appearance and in the clinical presentation of the psychos …

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Lyme Disease and Violence

Those who know lyme disease, know medicine. We read and hear what the Infectious Disease Society is saying about Lyme Disease and the Pastor's murder and the chimp's mauling i.e., Lyme disease doesn't cause this kind of behavior.

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One idea that elite universities like Yale, sprawling public systems like Wisconsin and smaller private colleges like Lewis and Clark have shared for generations is that a traditional liberal arts education is, by definition, not intended to prepare students for a specific vocati …

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When I was in Iraq, the most common wound behind the many Purple Hearts we awarded was the "perforated eardrum," an eardrum punctured by the concussion of a nearby explosion...

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When the American journalist David Plotz took Provigil, he said it should be given a slogan. Just as valium was marketed as "the housewife's little helper," he said this should be sold as "the boss' little helper." It makes you work better and harder than before. More Articles

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"With coupons unavailable, support and education insufficient, and the most vulnerable Americans exposed, I urge you to consider a change to the legislatively-mandated analog cutoff date," John Podesta, co-chair of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team wrote in the letter, …

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Anthony Lloyd, 20, was ordered off the park pitch for foul language but returned with the running power tool and tried to chop the hands off rival Paul Westwood while yelling: "I'm a crank."

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"We need the best brains working on the best brains." That's the way Professor Paul Francis from King's College London sums up the problem facing scientists working on a range of diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Autism. More Articles

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President-elect Barack Obama's nomination of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state marks yet another setback for the professional Clintonphobes of the Washington celebrity press.

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The study, which appears in the journal Intelligence, appears to support the idea that genes underlying intelligence may have other biological effects too. More Articles

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