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Mental Health

Submitted by Laura Cyckowski on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 6:24pm
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Neurobiology and Behavior, Spring, 2008

Brain, Behavior, and Human Well-Being

Senior Seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges
Spring 2008

 

"research on the brain, like nuclear physics and molecular genetics, creates both opportunities and risks for humanity sufficiently great so that special attention needs to be paid to them, both by researchers and by the public at large"

 

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Middlesex: How and Why Callie Became Cal

Submitted by MarieSager on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 10:14pm

“Sing now, O Muse, of the recessive mutation on my fifth chromosome! Sing how it bloomed two and a half centuries ago on the slopes of mount Olympus…Sing how it passed down through nine generations, gathering invisibly within the polluted pool of the Stephanides family. And sing how Providence … sent the gene flying again…” (p 4).

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I Am Not Myself

Submitted by LaKesha on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 7:49pm

I Am Not Myself

Listening to Prozac by Peter D. Kramer

 

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Reflections of Biology in Her Unquiet Mind

Submitted by ctreed on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 2:36pm

 

Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison’s book An Unquiet Mindprovided many examples of biological concepts that we discussed throughout thecourse in the context of an individual’s life.  Due to the intricacies of her condition and her acuteawareness of death, her story embodies, perhaps to an extreme, the complexitiesof what it is to be fully human and not just a creature of chemical processesmoving through life.

Exploring scientific misconduct

This paper was written by a student for a senior seminar on Science in Society at Bryn Mawr College. It's made available, with the student's permission, as a contribution to ongoing discussion of issues at the interface between science and the wider society of which it is a part.

 

It's All the Little Things:
How Misdemeanors in Scientific Misconduct are as Bad as Fabrication and Falsification

Elena Plionis
December 2007

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SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) As A Result of the Lack of Sunlight?

Submitted by ekoike on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 8:49pm

Seasonal Affective Disorder As a Result of the Lack of Sunlight?

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