Click Here to Read: When Convenience Battles With Robustness: A Study  Comparing Telephone-Based to In-Person Therapy For Depression by Todd Essig on the Forbes Magazine website on June 12, 2012.

Click here to read “Welcome to the Hybrid Age: We are on the verge of living in a human-technology civilization” by Ayesha Khanna and Parag Khanna from Slate on June 13, 2012.

Click here to read “Horace Mann Sex Abuse Victims Encouraged To Call Hotline And Come Forward Anonymously” from The Huffington Post on June 12, 2012.

In the wake of a shocking New York Times Magazine story alleging a series of prominent teachers at the prestigious Horace Mann School had sexually abused students, Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson announced on Tuesday the start of a special hotline to encourage those who have either been victims of sexual abuse or have knowledge of past assaults to come forward anonymously.

Click Here to Read: How Do You Live Knowing You Might Have an Alzheimer’s Gene? By Gina Kolata in the New York Times on June 7, 2012 .

Click here to read: “China unearths over 100 new terracotta warriors” from AFP on June 11, 2012.

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed 110 new terracotta warriors that laid buried for centuries, an official said Monday, part of the famed army built to guard the tomb of China’s first emperor.

Click here to read: “Woodward and Bernstein: 40 years after Watergate, Nixon was far worse than we thought” by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward from The Washington Post on June 8, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism By Michael A Peters on  June 10, 2012.

The Thinker, Musee Rodin. (Photo: John Kroll)

Click Here to Read: Exclusive: The Last Days of Mary Kennedy by Lawrence Leamer in Newsweek Magazine on June 11, 2012.

Mary Kennedy, Courtesy of Kerry Kennedy

Click Here to Read: Risky rise of good-grade pills: Strained students increasingly take stimulants to study, take tests to get into top schools by Alan Schwartz on the MSNB website on June 9, 2012.

(Un)Reliability and DSMV

 This piece is a bit technical, but explains and documents the drop in interater reliability for some categories of diagnoses in upcoming DSM-V.
N. Szajnberg, MD Managing Editor

Click Here to Read:   A few other problems with diagnosis in Psychiatry and the DSM on the Maggie’s Farm website on June 7, 2011.