Courts cite teen brain science to soften sentences; experts warn generalized neuroscience overreaches and adult responsibility stabilizes by 18 to 20.
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"While Listening to Annie Lamott Give Tim Ferriss Her Advice for Writers"
Author(s)Richard M. Berlin, MD
"The clock just ticked minute 41, and Annie, just as you predict, my attention is wandering, even if I haven’t hit Step 3: Make the reader feel something is at stake, which I’ll have to focus on in my revision."
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Richard Berlin, MD, shares his poem "
Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience as a doctor every month for the past 24 years in Psychiatric Times™. He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is
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