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Treatment for psychiatric patients is better than ever, and it's thanks to diagnoses and drugsRichard Bentall is right: psychological and social psychiatry research has been a Cinderella to biological and genetic explanations (Diagnoses are psychiatry's star signs. Let's listen more and drug people less, 31 August). He is also spot on about the exaggeration and hype of many of their 'breakthroughs'.However, much of his article is so one-sided that those messages risk being lost. It is simply untrue that the 'outcomes for patients suffering from the severest forms of psychiatric disorder . have hardly changed since the Victorian period'. Presumably Bentall is referring here to the proportion of schizophrenia patients who are still symptomatic into old age (which has not changed dramatically). Medical treatment is, however, not just about 'curing' diseases but reducing suffering and disability.Wellbeing and functioning during the schizophrenia patient's lifetime have improved enormously.

Larry Magid: Parents and Teachers Should Embrace the Technology that Kids Use

The world's largest cell phone maker is teaming with Facebook to bring deeper social networking integration to its N97 phones.

The N97 mini and X6 smartphones have Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, and GPS, and both will come packed with Nokia's music, mapping, and social-networking software.

Berlin - Germany is considering making election-day exit polls illegal, after forecast results were leaked in advance after last Sunday's regional elections via the Twitter social networking website. Under German law, releasing an exit poll before vo...

One out of every five display ads Web users viewed in June 2009 came from social networking sites. MySpace and Facebook accounted for more than 80 percent of display ads among social network sites. AT T ranked as the top display advertiser on social networking sites in June with more than 2 billion ad impressions. What's interesting about this is that AT T is the sole carrier of the Apple iPhone, the world's most popular smartphone. Many experts believe the market for social network ad will get even bigger once the majority of the world begins browsing the Internet from mobile devices. - It seems there is something to advertising on social network sites after all. One out of every five display ads Web users viewed in June 2009 came from social networking sites such as MySpace or Facebook, where more than 400 million users congregate to share information about them...

Big Blue looking to tap into the real-time, always-on craze with TV remote that syncs to social Web independent of a PC.

Gmail, Google's popular free e-mail service, was inaccessible to many of its 36 million users Tuesday afternoon, causing widespread chatter on Twitter and other social networks.

We have been part of an extraordinary social phenomenon over the past four years surrounding Darfur: the development of a genuine anti-genocide people's movement. It's succeeded in cultivating a number of true champions in the political sphere, led by three former senators: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.

Nokia today unveiled three new smartphones -- the N97 Mini, X6 and X3 -- that boast more music features and mesh better with social-networking service Facebook to better compete with Apple's iPhone.