It marked the first time in at least a decade that the U.K. blocked an extradition to the U.S. Ms. May said the rejection was on human-rights grounds because Mr. McKinnon suffered from Asperger's syndrome and depression.

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The reality is that for many illnesses, including not only pain but also minor depression, irritable bowel syndrome, or nausea, the placebos given to patients in clinical trials are pretty fantastic treatments that anybody would choose to take in a heartbeat.

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Early nerve damage caused by repetitive strain injuries can trigger "sick worker" syndrome--characterized by malaise, fatigue and depression, and often mistaken for poor performance, according to a new study published this month in the Journal of Neuroimmunology.

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The syndrome has been linked to poverty and some kinds of depression.

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In dozens of small patient trials staged over three decades, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to be surprisingly effective in quelling an ever expanding array of mental maladies: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress syndrome, bulimia, hypochondria--even insomnia.

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