Tag: Mental Illness
Recently published in the Annals Of Neurology, neurologist Rivka Inzelberg’s research explores the connection between enhanced creativity in Parkinson’s patients, the medication they take, and their tendency towards obsessive behavior. The research builds on previous studies which state that Parkinson’s sufferers have higher levels of creative production, especially those taking the drug L-DOPA which increases dopamine in […]
Earlier this year, we noted that mentally ill people at Rikers Island would no longer be put in solitary confinement. Today, the New York Times exposed a massive culture of violence at the jail complex, largely directed at the mentally ill. The article details hideous abuses. There were several incidents of multiple guards ganging up against one prisoner […]
Wang Bing’s doc ‘Til Madness Do Us Part will be screening at MoMA this Wednesday, as part of Documentary Fortnight 2014, the museum’s international festival of nonfiction film and media. Gleaned from 300 hours of footage, the film provides an unyielding, four-hour long look inside a mental institution in the Yunnan Province of China. Like the clip above, the […]
Solitary confinement is hell. (Seriously.) So it’s good news that the New York City Department of Corrections will no longer stick inmates with mental illnesses in “the bing” when they break the rules. In a program that takes effect this year, inmates with conditions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder will instead be placed in Clinical Alternative […]
