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NAMI coordinator Haynes honors memory of her sister
Ashley Haynes is working long hours out of a tiny cubicle these days, earning about half what she was a few months ago. And she couldn't be happier. As events and education outreach coordinator for National Alliance on Mental Health Illness in Maryland,...
Tags: Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Inner Harbor
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Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible
Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...
Tags: Harford County, University of Maryland, College Park, Psychiatry, Dismemberment, Trials
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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, Bipolar Disorder, Randallstown, Family, Behavioral Conditions
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The AP's complicated word-association test
In what may be the greatest victory to date for the sophisticatedly asinine organization "No Labels," the Associated Press has embraced a new policy against "labeling people." For instance, its widely used and influential style guide is being purged of...
Tags: Migration, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, The Associated Press
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A smart investment
The human brain is a marvelous instrument, capable of the subtlest thoughts, feelings and perceptions, and of dreams even the gods might envy. Yet for all our cleverness in other areas, we still know embarrassingly little about how our own brains actually...
Tags: DARPA, Research, Fiction, Alzheimer's Disease, Barack Obama
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Obama initiative aims to unravel mysteries of human brain
The White House proposed a sweeping new initiative Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project that will give scientists a better understanding of how a healthy brain works and how to devise better treatments...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Autism, Research, Alzheimer's Disease, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances
Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...
Tags: St. Joseph Medical Center, Imperial and Royal Matters, Elizabeth II, West Point, John Ward
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The forgotten victim: Nancy Lanza
The philosopher Kahlil Gibran's meditation on children is a touching favorite among parents who have read "The Prophet." In it, he captures perfectly the helplessness we feel as our children go out into the world, into the future, and necessarily...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Barack Obama, Adam Lanza
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Rejecting 31,000 gun deaths as a fact of life
There are so many violent tragedies every day — I'm thinking specifically about the deaths of young people, and particularly those by gun — it's impossible to process it all, much less give our hearts to it. If we tried, our heads would burst....
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Personal Weapon Control, Colleges and Universities, Morgan State University, Firearms
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Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald
With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...
Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tuberculosis, Edgar Allan Poe, H.L. Mencken
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's former Baltimore home for sale
It might lack the cachet of Long Island Sound, where novelist S. Scott Fitzgerald set "The Great Gatsby." But anyone with a spare $450,000 can live in a piece of literary history — specifically the 3,600-square-foot Bolton Hill town home where...Tags: Sheppard Pratt Health System, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bolton Hill, Long Island Sound
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Fort Meade commander taking on synthetic marijuana
At first, the soldier's behavior was puzzling. He appeared to be having hallucinations. He was anxious. He became belligerent. A drug test identified the problem: The young man had become the latest service member at Fort Meade to experience an...
Tags: National Security Agency, Substance Abuse, Fort Meade (military base), Synthetic Marijuana, U.S. Army
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