Monthly Archives: January 2016
Post Of The Week – Saturday 30th January 2016
1) Health Careers – Psychological Therapies The Health Careers website run by the NHS is dedicating the next couple of weeks to careers in psychological therapies. Here is an introductory video. You can find out more here. https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/psychological-therapies 2) IAPT Improving Access To Psychological Therapy has been a big part of the NHS strategy […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 23rd January 2016
1) Identification In Crowds This article explains some of the work by John Drury at Sussex University. http://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/february/riots-crowd-safety It takes as its starting point the idea that people in crowds are not mindless or deindividuated but are rather adopting the identity of the crowd, an identity which can change as events unfold. John Drury’s research […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 16th January 2016
1) Naked Scientists Here is Steve O’Rahilly from Cambridge University talking about obesity, leptin and exercise. You have to click on the link and wind about 35 minutes in. https://www.acast.com/naked_scientists_podcast/obesity-appetite-exercise-and-weight-loss 2) Gene For Autism Research into “genes for” typically starts with the people diagnosed with the condition and looks at the genes they have in […]
Post Of The week – Saturday 9th January, 2016
1) Brains And Guts This TED Talk explores the complexity of the systems inside our guts which help us regulate what we eat. It explains this in the context of big brain theory, an idea we explore as an evolutionary explanation of eating behaviour in A2. We can understand the relationship between gut and brain as […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 3rd January 2016
1) 0 To 3 Years This radio programme features David Willetts who used to be a government minister. In it, he explains why we have got it wrong if we as a society invest a high proportion of our resources into children in the first three years of their lives. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sggdk I’ve been thinking again […]
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