Monthly Archives: September 2016

Post Of The Week – Saturday 24th September 2016

September 24, 2016 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) RCTs One the things that has been bothering me for a while with RCTs (randomised controlled trials) is how it is possible to justify giving participants randomly allocated to a control group an inferior intervention. I was taught in week 1 of my Psychology Of Education masters degree course that this was not acceptable […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th September 2016

September 18, 2016 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Stress And Depression I’ve not had time to listen to more than a fraction of this but it sounds really interesting. Carmine Pariante from King’s College London explores the links between stress and depression. This is important for what it tells us about the relationship between nature and nurture as well as about the […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th September 2016

September 10, 2016 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Mental Illness In South Asian Communities We will be looking at cultural bias as part of the Year 2 course this year. We’ll look at ethnocentrism: judging other cultures by the standards and values of one’s own culture. We’ll also be looking at cultural relativism: the idea that standards and values can only be meaningful and […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 4th September 2016

September 4, 2016 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Surgery Ban Last week, I was working on biological explanations of obesity. I was looking for a news story I dimly remembered about people with obesity being denied surgery unless they could lose weight. I hunted around on the internet and found something. As it turned out, I needn’t have bothered as this has […]