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May 26th, 2008

Mental Health Notes Asks: What Do You Really Want? May Edition

So, I don’t know if it’s because I have some kind of sixth sense or what, but I started thinking, It’s about time for another edition of What Do You Really Want?
I looked at the first What Do You Really Want? and saw that I posted it on April 26.
Today is May 26.
[enter Twilight […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 3 comments

May 3rd, 2008

Saturday Sanity: Keeps The Doctor Away

Well, OK, you got me. Saturday Sanity doesn’t exactly keep the doctor away, but it does keep you up to date with what’s going on in the world of mental health, and that’s good too, right?

I talked about a lot of stuff this week here at Mental Health Notes. Not only did I get to […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments

April 29th, 2008

Blame Sexy Women For The Crappy Economy

Haha, not really. Well…at least, I don’t think so?
According to research conducted and led by Northwestern University finance professor Camelia Kuhnen and Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson, sex and money trigger the same area of our brains - the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, or, our brains’ pleasure center.
During the research, which involved 15 heterosexual men (no women […]

By Alicia Sparks, Mental Health Notes -- 2 comments