Neuroscience
- Psychology Ignored And Depression Neglected In The Media's Coverage Of Mental Health Research
Research into some mental disorders receives disproportionate media coverage at the expense of other disorders. That's according to the first systematic study of the way the UK mass media covers mental illness. And in a wake-up call...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: The senses in language and culture (The Senses and Society). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Schools (Psychology in the Schools). Clinical Speech and Language Studies in Honour of Susan...
- Are Mental Disorders Real?
How do the public view mental disorders? Do they see them as real entities with some kind of essence, or do they see them as the invention of human culture? And how does their take differ from that of mental health professionals? To find out, Woo-kyoung...
- The Merger Of Neurology And Psychiatry
Thomas R. Insel, Shining a Light on Depression. Science 10 August 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5839, pp. 757 - 758. Just as research during the Decade of the Brain (1990-2000) forged the bridge between the mind and the brain, research in the current decade is...
- The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Criminal Psychopaths
Department of Psychology Colloquium Wednesday, November 2 at 12:00 p.m. BPS 1243 The Department of Psychology is extremely excited to announce that Dr. Kent Kiehl from the University of New Mexico will be speaking at the Departmental colloquium on "The...
Neuroscience
Neuroscience and Cognitive Science (NACS) Colloquium Series
Speaker: Dr. Thomas Insel, NIMH, NIH (RIVAS MEMORIAL LECTURER)
Title: "Rethinking Mental Illness"
Date: April 15
Time: 10:15am
Place: 1103 Bioscience Research Building (BRB) Coffee & cookies
outside of 1103 BRB at 10:00am.
Host: Dr. Nathan Fox
Abstract:
Mental disorders (depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc.) are the leading source of medical disability in the developed world (WHO, 2008) In addition to high disability, the major mental disorders are a source of early mortality. People with these disorders have a life expectancy of 56 years, with more than two decades lost to suicide and various medical illnesses, especially cardio-pulmonary diseases. After a century of focusing on the psychological causes of mental disorders, we can now begin to address these mysterious behavioral and cognitive syndromes as brain disorders. Genetics and neuroscience are leading us to reconceptualize these disorders in terms of developmental brain processes that go off track due to the combined influences of genomic risk and early experience. The next decade will likely see a revolution in our approach to mental disorders with a new understanding of their biology and new opportunities for treatments.
The seminar schedule is available at http://www.nacs.umd.edu/news/seminars.cfm
Upcoming seminars and events:
April 22: Dr. Alan Stocker, University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Rethinking Mental Illness"
Date: April 15
Time: 10:15am
Place: 1103 Bioscience Research Building (BRB) Coffee & cookies
outside of 1103 BRB at 10:00am.
Host: Dr. Nathan Fox
Abstract:
Mental disorders (depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, etc.) are the leading source of medical disability in the developed world (WHO, 2008) In addition to high disability, the major mental disorders are a source of early mortality. People with these disorders have a life expectancy of 56 years, with more than two decades lost to suicide and various medical illnesses, especially cardio-pulmonary diseases. After a century of focusing on the psychological causes of mental disorders, we can now begin to address these mysterious behavioral and cognitive syndromes as brain disorders. Genetics and neuroscience are leading us to reconceptualize these disorders in terms of developmental brain processes that go off track due to the combined influences of genomic risk and early experience. The next decade will likely see a revolution in our approach to mental disorders with a new understanding of their biology and new opportunities for treatments.
The seminar schedule is available at http://www.nacs.umd.edu/news/seminars.cfm
Upcoming seminars and events:
April 22: Dr. Alan Stocker, University of Pennsylvania
April 29: Dr. Ranulfo Romo, University of Mexico
- Psychology Ignored And Depression Neglected In The Media's Coverage Of Mental Health Research
Research into some mental disorders receives disproportionate media coverage at the expense of other disorders. That's according to the first systematic study of the way the UK mass media covers mental illness. And in a wake-up call...
- The Special Issue Spotter
We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to: The senses in language and culture (The Senses and Society). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in the Schools (Psychology in the Schools). Clinical Speech and Language Studies in Honour of Susan...
- Are Mental Disorders Real?
How do the public view mental disorders? Do they see them as real entities with some kind of essence, or do they see them as the invention of human culture? And how does their take differ from that of mental health professionals? To find out, Woo-kyoung...
- The Merger Of Neurology And Psychiatry
Thomas R. Insel, Shining a Light on Depression. Science 10 August 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5839, pp. 757 - 758. Just as research during the Decade of the Brain (1990-2000) forged the bridge between the mind and the brain, research in the current decade is...
- The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Criminal Psychopaths
Department of Psychology Colloquium Wednesday, November 2 at 12:00 p.m. BPS 1243 The Department of Psychology is extremely excited to announce that Dr. Kent Kiehl from the University of New Mexico will be speaking at the Departmental colloquium on "The...