Treating Depression: First Steps
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, talks about first steps in treating depression. Initially, Dr. Leuchter explains, doctors look for symptoms that often accompany depression, such as problems with sleep, energy, appetite, se...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Harm Avoidance (Part Two)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, expands on his discussion of harm avoidance, which he explains refers to a group of personality traits that includes depression, anxiety, feeling bad ab...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Mental Retardation and Genetics
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the role genetics plays in many forms of mental retardation. In the case of PKU, a type of retardation that's caused by an enzyme deficiency...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Genetics and Aging
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the link between genetics and aging. Dr. Hamer focuses on some of the more serious problems associated with age, in particular, Alzheimer's ...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Transcript: some long lived parents. The reason for that, of course, is that aging And dying like many aspects of our health are at least partly Controlled by our
Sexual Orientation and Genetics (Part Two)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, expands on his discussion of sexual orientation and genetics. Dr. Hamer explains that work with identical twins has provided evidence that, at least in ...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Obesity and Genetics
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the role of genetics in obesity. Dr. Hamer explains that, while the direct cause of obesity is eating too much, the tendency to overeat is, ...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Transcript: Obesity is a major but not very much talked about killer In the united states. It's linked to all sorts of health problems. Despite the fact that
Sexual Orientation and Genetics (Part Four)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, explains that there are some inconsistencies in research data concerning the link between genetics and sexual orientation in men and similar data regard...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Sexual Orientation and Genetics (Part Three)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, explains that while there does appear to be a genetic component to sexual orientation, the genetic component is not the only factor involved.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Violent Behavior and Gender
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the disparity in the number of violent acts committed by men as compared to women. While he recognizes that there may well be social phenome...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Genetics and Sexuality (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the great diversity that characterizes human sexuality. Dr. Hamer notes that while social factors often affect sexuality and the way it is p...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health