At 13, an age when most boys want to learn the guitar, Gary Marcus, decided he wanted to be a scientist. Twenty-five years later he had become one of the country's best known cognitive psychologists, with major papers and three general-interest books on the workings of the human mind and a position running New York University's Center for Language...
When does a broken heart become a diagnosis? In a bitter skirmish over the definition of depression, a new report contends that a proposed change to the diagnosis would characterize grieving as a disorder and greatly increase the number of people treated for it. The criteria for depression are being reviewed by the American Psychiatric Association,...
Mary C. Henderson, a scholar of the theater whose interests as a historian and curator spanned centuries and as a Tony nominator and critic were up to the minute, died on Jan. 3 at her home in Congers, N.Y. She was 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease, her son Doug said. Ms. Henderson, who taught theater history at New York University and other...
New York University er et anset universitet i New York City, USA. Grundlagt i 1831. I dag (2004) har universitetet ca. 39.500 studerende.