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Benedict Carey (born 1960) is an American journalist and reporter on medical and science topics for The New York Times.

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A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain

It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata? Dreams are so rich and have such an authentic feeling ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, Boston Globe,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  New York University,  Carnegie Mellon University

Mind: A Dream Interpretation: Tuneups for the Brain

It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata? Dreams are so rich and have such an authentic feeling ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, International Herald Tribune,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  New York University,  Carnegie Mellon University

Pressed by wars, military counselors feeling the strain

NEW YORK - Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting, and the process of recovery exhausting. In time the repeated stories of battle and loss can leave even the most professional ...

From BENEDICT CAREY AND DAMIEN CAVE, Boston Globe,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan

How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, Boston Globe,  6 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lewis Carroll,  Franz Kafka,  John Cage,  David Lynch

Mind: How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect

In addition to assorted bad breaks and pleasant surprises, opportunities and insults, life serves up the occasional pink unicorn. The three-dollar bill; the nun with a beard; the sentence, to borrow from the Lewis Carroll poem, that gyres and gimbles ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lewis Carroll,  Franz Kafka,  David Lynch,  John Cage

Vital Signs: Childhood: Autism Diagnoses Rising, U.S. Reports

More than 1 in 100 American children and teenagers may have autism, Asperger’s syndrome or a related developmental problem, although such diagnoses often do not hold up, according to a government report released on Monday. Nearly 40 percent of the ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Vital Signs, Inc.

Dr. Leon Eisenberg, Pioneer in Autism Studies, Dies at 87

Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who conducted some of the first rigorous studies of autism, attention deficit disorder and learning delays and became a prominent advocate for children struggling with disabilities, died on Sept. 15 at his home in Cambridge, Mass. ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times,  23 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts General Hospital,  Johns Hopkins University,  Duke University,  James Harris,  Harvard Medical School

For longtime captives, a complex road home

a phenomenon that is really not that uncommon: a child engaged in an abusive relationship when young and, not knowing any better, coming to accept it as their life, adapting as best they can," said Lucy Berliner, director of the trauma program at ...

From BENEDICT CAREY THE NEW YORK TIMES, Salt Lake Tribune,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Elizabeth Smart,  Shawn Hornbeck,  Brigham Young

Sleep May Be Nature’s Time Management Tool

If there is a society of expert sleepers out there, a cult of smug snoozers satisfied that they’re getting just the right number of restful hours a night, it must be a secretive one. Most people seem insecure about their sleep and willing to say so: ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, Boston Globe,  1 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University

For Longtime Captive, a Complex Road Home

Jaycee Dugard has suffered sexual abuse, neglect and emotional manipulation to an extent hard to imagine, according to the charges in the case involving her abduction. Jaycee Dugards stepfather, Carl Probyn, says she has expressed guilt over bonding ...

From BENEDICT CAREY, The New York Times,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Elizabeth Smart,  Shawn Hornbeck,  Brigham Young

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