PT Staff

Offers a look at chronic fatique syndrome and its rise today. Emotional distress; Comparison to neurasthenia; Nonspecific somatic symptoms; Link between biology and behavior; Biochemical imbalances; Questions whether it is a virus, hormones, or simply a metaphor for modern times.

Offers a look at the lack of coverage in the media of women's sports. Statistics; Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles; Underrepresentation.

Have we become a cultureof self-diagnosers?

Reports that though the acquittal of the four police officers accused of beating Rodney King shocked the nation, it actually demonstrated what psychologists have known all along. Difficult to predict jury behavior; Considerations in reaching a verdict; Considerations that ought to be used in reaching a verdict; How jurors construe witnesses' testimony; Power of inferences; Versions of truth more compatible with jurors' feelings; Desensitization due to heinous video viewings; More.

Offers a look at the opinions of a German psychologist who contends that we are handling the garbage glut all wrong. Capitalizing on apartment buildings; Separating combustables; Chain; Best way to get around trash avoidance.

Looks at how the fall of communism and the demise of the Soviet Union had one thing in common: they caught most people by surprise, and describes how monumental events such as these always astonish even the most seasoned observers. Why revolutions can never acurately be predicted; How a society can come to the brink of a threshold without anyone knowing it; To the degree that discontent is unanticipated, it holds the potential for sudden, explosive change.

Reports that this is the decade of the brain, according to a declaration of Congress. A federally sponsored push to accelerate the extraordinary pace of research advances in the basic and clinical neurosciences relevant to mental illness; Special goals; Findings of enormous significance.