Guest Column

By Clifton D. Croan, MA, LPC, DAPA

Numbers—there are too many, and we should get rid of some! But behavioral health clinicians, as well as other medical providers, live in an Information Age where the world is rapidly being quantified, digitized, and put online, and technology is leaping ahead into almost magical realms. The demand for health care reform and accountability is a powerful driving force for transferring and innovating technology into quantified medical terms. It seems likely that the future will hold a few more numbers for the clinicians who are a part of the clinical triad of consumers, providers, and insurers. Each member of the triad has similar, and differing, agendas (Krohn, 2010).

Today's college students are not as empathetic as college students of the 1980s and '90s, a University of Michigan study shows.

Swedish researchers have discovered that education not only delays the early symptoms of dementia, but can also slow down the development of the disease.

Washington State University researchers took a look at the effects of meth on memory by looking at the effect it has on a humble mollusc: the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis.

University of Michigan scientists have provided the most detailed picture yet of a key receptor in the brain that influences the effectiveness of serotonin-related antidepressants.

Four out of five children can't tell when they are talking to an adult posing as a child on the internet, according to researchers working on software to track pedophiles online.

The results of a new study show striking similarities between the mental impairments observed in psychopaths and those seen in patients with frontal lobe damage.

Researchers have new evidence to show that the empathy response triggered in the nervous system is diminished when people (black or white) who hold racial biases see that pain is being inflicted on those of another race.

Children are more likely to watch high levels of television if their parents do, but parents do not need to be physically active to help their children to be active, a new study has found.

Stress caused by psychological shock from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, felt even by people with no direct link to the event, may have led to an increase in male children being miscarried in the U.S.