Schizophrenia

NAMI coordinator Haynes honors memory of her sister

2013-05-15 06:22:00

Ashley Haynes is working long hours out of a tiny cubicle these days, earning about half what she was a few months ago. And she couldn't be happier. As events and education outreach coordinator for National Alliance on Mental Health Illness in Maryland,...

Prosecutor can't show accused cannibal criminally responsible

2013-04-17 15:54:36

Harford County's top prosecutor said Wednesday that he does not have enough evidence to show that Alexander Kinyua is criminally responsible for killing a family friend and eating his organs last year. A state psychiatric hospital previously found that...

Seriously mentally ill people can't wait another year for lawmakers to change the standard for involuntary commitments

2013-04-12 12:00:00

Regarding your recent editorial on making it easier for families to commit a mentally ill relative to a mental institution against their will, Maryland's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and some state delegates apparently are missing the urgent...

The AP's complicated word-association test

2013-04-08 04:00:00

In what may be the greatest victory to date for the sophisticatedly asinine organization "No Labels," the Associated Press has embraced a new policy against "labeling people." For instance, its widely used and influential style guide is being purged of...

A smart investment

2013-04-05 09:57:00

The human brain is a marvelous instrument, capable of the subtlest thoughts, feelings and perceptions, and of dreams even the gods might envy. Yet for all our cleverness in other areas, we still know embarrassingly little about how our own brains actually...

Obama initiative aims to unravel mysteries of human brain

2013-04-02 18:25:17

The White House proposed a sweeping new initiative Tuesday to map the individual cells and circuits that make up the human brain, a project that will give scientists a better understanding of how a healthy brain works and how to devise better treatments...

Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances

2013-02-08 05:10:00

Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...

The forgotten victim: Nancy Lanza

2012-12-26 12:28:00

The philosopher Kahlil Gibran's meditation on children is a touching favorite among parents who have read "The Prophet." In it, he captures perfectly the helplessness we feel as our children go out into the world, into the future, and necessarily...

Rejecting 31,000 gun deaths as a fact of life

2013-02-18 15:02:00

There are so many violent tragedies every day — I'm thinking specifically about the deaths of young people, and particularly those by gun — it's impossible to process it all, much less give our hearts to it. If we tried, our heads would burst....

Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald

2013-02-08 14:32:00

With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's former Baltimore home for sale

2013-01-31 16:36:00

It might lack the cachet of Long Island Sound, where novelist S. Scott Fitzgerald set "The Great Gatsby." But anyone with a spare $450,000 can live in a piece of literary history — specifically the 3,600-square-foot Bolton Hill town home where...

Fort Meade commander taking on synthetic marijuana

2013-01-12 08:05:00

At first, the soldier's behavior was puzzling. He appeared to be having hallucinations. He was anxious. He became belligerent. A drug test identified the problem: The young man had become the latest service member at Fort Meade to experience an...

Why is it that people will drive from the city to the county and vice versa, but driving from Canton to Fed Hill and vice versa is such an exhausting investment to locals? -- Chris F., Canton For many people, myself among them, cars were meant to be driven on scenic, open highways.

2013-04-23 15:48:00

Alexander Kinyua was charged with killing a family friend in their Harford County home and eating his organs. The disturbing story came just days after a Miami cannibalism case had made national news.

2012-12-28 00:00:00

Worried Pembroke Pines family seeking help to find missing James Louis Jones who has schizophrenia and needs medication

2012-12-06 00:00:00