Neuroscience
For when you've had enough of journal articles:
Britain has become the true Prozac Nation, claims Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg.
From New York magazine: Kids lie all the time - they've learned how to from their parents.
A recent episode of Horizon examined how gut instinct leads us to make irrational decisions. There's an accompanying news article. And if you go to the Horizon website, you can watch the programme online, via the button "Click here for full index" (find the episode called "How to make better decisions").
The power of mimicry, from the New York Times.
If your children are going to watch TV, here's what they should watch. Article from Newsweek, with references to American TV shows.
Oliver Sacks describes the visual patterns experienced by some people who suffer migraines. From the New York Times.
Psychoanalysts have tended to receive unkind portrayals in novels, but that looks set to change with the publication of two new books with more endearing psychoanalyst characters at their heart. So argues Lisa Appignanesi in the Guardian.
Lisa was also a guest on a recent episode of BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, where she discusses her new book: "Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present."
In a Royal College of Psychiatry podcast and associated editorial, Psychiatrist Gerald Rosen argues for the diagnosis of PTSD to be dropped, in favour of a more straightforward diagnosis of anxiety or depression. Via MindHacks.
Time magazine on why we flirt.
ABC Radio's All in the Mind show is back, with recent episodes discussing whether Proust was a neuroscientist, and whether nature really is good for the psyche. (Links are to MP3 audio files).
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Our round-up of the latest psychology links from around the web: Tips from psychologists on how to maintain focus at work (New York Times). Don't worry, reading the Digest blog definitely counts as work. Facebook users average just 3.74 degrees of...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: Dan Jones, writing for Prospect Magazine, uncovers the psychological foundations of our moral beliefs. ABC Radio's All in the Mind series continues with a programme about four-year-old Tara who lacks...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: "He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain" - Elizabeth Day of The Observer newspaper meets Howard Dully, who was subjected to frontal lobotomy at the age of 12. "You must remember this" - Penelope...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles: Time magazine describes what it's like for the siblings of children with autism. Bad Science on how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems (scroll down for link to MP3 audio file)....
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For when you've had enough of journal articles:Britain has become the true Prozac Nation, claims Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg.
From New York magazine: Kids lie all the time - they've learned how to from their parents.
A recent episode of Horizon examined how gut instinct leads us to make irrational decisions. There's an accompanying news article. And if you go to the Horizon website, you can watch the programme online, via the button "Click here for full index" (find the episode called "How to make better decisions").
The power of mimicry, from the New York Times.
If your children are going to watch TV, here's what they should watch. Article from Newsweek, with references to American TV shows.
Oliver Sacks describes the visual patterns experienced by some people who suffer migraines. From the New York Times.
Psychoanalysts have tended to receive unkind portrayals in novels, but that looks set to change with the publication of two new books with more endearing psychoanalyst characters at their heart. So argues Lisa Appignanesi in the Guardian.
Lisa was also a guest on a recent episode of BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, where she discusses her new book: "Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present."
In a Royal College of Psychiatry podcast and associated editorial, Psychiatrist Gerald Rosen argues for the diagnosis of PTSD to be dropped, in favour of a more straightforward diagnosis of anxiety or depression. Via MindHacks.
Time magazine on why we flirt.
ABC Radio's All in the Mind show is back, with recent episodes discussing whether Proust was a neuroscientist, and whether nature really is good for the psyche. (Links are to MP3 audio files).
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest psychology links from around the web: Tips from psychologists on how to maintain focus at work (New York Times). Don't worry, reading the Digest blog definitely counts as work. Facebook users average just 3.74 degrees of...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Dan Jones, writing for Prospect Magazine, uncovers the psychological foundations of our moral beliefs. ABC Radio's All in the Mind series continues with a programme about four-year-old Tara who lacks...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: "He was bad, so they put an ice pick in his brain" - Elizabeth Day of The Observer newspaper meets Howard Dully, who was subjected to frontal lobotomy at the age of 12. "You must remember this" - Penelope...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Time magazine describes what it's like for the siblings of children with autism. Bad Science on how pill pushers and the media medicalise social problems (scroll down for link to MP3 audio file)....