Updated: 3/29/2006; 11:22:46 PM.
Introductory Psychology 200
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Friday, March 10, 2006

Dash of antibiotic improves social anxiety treatment.

Researchers have found that adding D-cycloserine (DCS) – a drug used to treat tuberculosis but that has also been shown to stimulate learning – to therapy programs helps people with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) learn how to overcome fears of social situations, such as public speaking. The fear of public speaking is the most common among individuals with SAD, as well as in the general population.

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Internet Suicides Alarm Japan. An rise in suicide pacts arranged online has authorities concerned with the proliferation of websites advocating suicide, and sociologists scrambling to understand why so many young people want to die. [Wired News: Top Stories]
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Yet Another Violent Games Ban. [Slashdot]
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