Latest Additions: www.footnotez.org http://www.footnotez.org/feed/ 2008-12-02T13:20:24+01:00 text/html 2008-11-27T12:04:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/depression-citations/#1 Your holiday turkey won't give you more faith in your family, but research published last year suggests that there is a relationship between tryptophan and trust. text/html 2008-11-14T13:05:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/depression-citations/#2 In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. text/html 2008-11-11T08:14:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/depression-citations/#3 "Their [brain] scans were stone-cold normal, and when you talked to them, they seemed fine," says Ling, who is now a staff physician at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a program manager in the Defense Sciences Office at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA. "But when I started testing them, like asking them to do addition, they were clearly not normal." text/html 2008-11-11T02:49:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/depression-citations/#4 The gist is that women couldn't afford luxuries in the depression but wanted to buy something to treat themselves. Something small, cheap, and with a big impact. Lipstick. During the Depression sales went up and according to the NY Times Styles section today they're up again: 40%. And the colors that are hot? Not blood red, but rather muted pinks and browns. We really are depressed. text/html 2008-11-04T07:54:00+01:00 http://www.footnotez.org/depression-citations/#5 Scientists have found clues in the brains of people with major depression that might help explain why so many depressed people also battle chronic pain, according to a U.S. study published on Monday.