Monthly Archives: October 2015

Post Of The Week – Saturday 31st October 2015

October 31, 2015 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Learning, Neuroscience, Obedience, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) Peering Inside The Brain This article looks at various attempts over the last 200 years to understand what happens inside our skulls. It refers to some of the exhibits in the Science Museum. If you are ever in London, there is some great Psychology stuff in there. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151028-a-brief-history-of-our-desire-to-peer-into-the-brain 2) How Writing Makes People Smarter […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 25th October 2015

October 25, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Learning, Nature - Nurture, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Robert Plomin On “The Life Scientific”. Robert Plomin is a behavioural geneticist whose work has created a degree of controversy. You can listen to an extended interview with him here. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06j1qts Plomin’s big idea is that variations between individuals in academic success can be explained substantially by genes. This is the conclusion of a […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th October 2015

October 18, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Obedience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Randomised Controlled Trials In Education I have been teaching people for a few years now that education suffers from a lack of RCTs. This is fundamentally because people do not wish to see students allocated to a condition randomly which may not be optimal for their education. This was what we learnt Term 1 […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th October 2015

October 10, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Cracking The Skull Open This article concerns the relationship between psychiatry and neuroscience. http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-cant-we-unite-neuroscience-and-psychiatry/ It looks at how progress has been made with our understanding of other aspects of human physiology, for example the heart and cancer, contrasting progress there with ignorance in relation to how the brain works. Along the way, it demolishes […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd October 2015

October 4, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) How Memories Form And How We Lose Them This is a TED-ED lesson aimed at a less specialist audience than us. It is still worth watching, touching on some of the issues in our course. 2) Suicide Prevention In Young People Here is a summary of some research into the effectiveness of interventions in […]