HealthDay News — Among adolescents and young adults with bipolar disorder, those who attempt suicide show reduced volume and activity in areas of the brain that regulate emotion and impulses, according to a study published online Jan. 31 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Using magnetic resonance imaging, Hilary Blumberg, MD, of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues compared regional gray matter volume, white matter integrity, and functional

Freud’s lexicon has become embedded within the vocabulary of western society. Words he introduced through his theories are now used by everyday people, such as anal (personality), libido, denial, repression, cathartic, Freudian slip, and neurotic. Freud believed that when we explain our own behaviour to ourselves or others (conscious mental activity) we rarely give a true account of our motivation. This is not because we are deliberately lying. Whilst human

In 1859, a Jewish wool and textile merchant from Moravia tried to immigrate to Leipzig, Saxony (now part of Germany), with his wife, toddler son and infant daughter. He carried with him a “good conduct certificate,” or personal reference, in ornate script, from the mayor of their official home village. But it was not enough: A restriction barred Jews from settling there. So the family moved to Vienna, the toddler