She got hands-on experience as an intern at a suicide crisis center in Buffalo, learned behavior therapy at SUNY Stony Brook and eventually landed at the University of Washington.

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"I took my mother off it, " says David Brown, head of cardiology at SUNY Stony Brook Medical Center.

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Evelyn Bromet, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Stony Brook, says the study's real value may be in the picture of mental health that emerges over time.

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On a recent Saturday morning in Karen and Peter Flint's spacious barn in the Brandywine Valley, nine harpsichord students and assorted auditors were listening intently as harpsichord virtuoso Arthur Haas, a professor at SUNY Stony Brook, explained the subtleties inherent in performing the music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).

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