Monthly Archives: January 2017
Post Of The Week – Sunday 29th January 2017
A two week break due to the mocks. 1) Ruby Wax And David Baddiel On Mindfulness The podcast you need is currently at the top of this list. Ruby Wax and David Baddiel discuss their experience of mental illness and therapy. Ruby Wax has just written a book about mindfulness. There’s an f word towards the […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday January 15th 2017
1) Mindset We’ve been thinking a lot about research methods over the past couple of weeks. This article looks at the popularity of growth mindset and at the research which underlies it. The central claim is that the evidence is not as strong as you’d think it would be. Peer review, significance, replicability and objectivity […]
Post Of The week – Saturday 7th January, 2017
1) How Do Connectomes Contribute to Human Cognition? The answer to this question is explained in this brief article from Scientific American. It sums up neatly how we understand structure and plasticity within the brain. 2) Eating Disorders In Males We quote the figure of 9:1 for the ratio of female to male diagnosis of […]
Post Of The Week – Monday 2nd January 2017
1) A Little Bit OCD This article explores the presentation of OCD in HBO’s “Girls”. It explains how it moves away from depicting OCD as being tidy and fastidious to explore the anxiety and misery at the heart of the condition. This article gives a fuller overview of how OCD is defined and understood. […]
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