Monthly Archives: March 2017

Post Of The Week – Saturday 25th March 2017

March 25, 2017 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Virtual Reality This week, as part of the phobias lessons in Year 1, we had a look at some video showing VR being used to treat PTSD. I explained that the video was quite old and that I hadn’t seen much about this recently. This article, from which the video above is drawn, was […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 18th March 2017

March 18, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Memory, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) The Brain: A Radical Rethink When we have studied anything to do with localisation of the brain this year, I have been keen to stress that increasingly we understand the brain in terms of integration, not localisation. This article makes the point rather more effectively than I do.   2) Approaches To Psychopathology In […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 11th March 2017

March 11, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Memory, Neuroscience, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) The Effects Of Stress We’ve just been doing fight or flight response in Year 1. Here’s a timely illustration of the effects of the stress response on health.   2) Mark Williams On Mindfulness Here’s Mark Williams, one of the founding figures of Mindfulness Based CBT explaining where it came from and what its […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 4th March 2016

March 4, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) Optogenetics People sometimes wonder why we focus on Biopsychology. The material we cover in our course provides a basis for understanding the rapid advances being made in studying and understanding the brain. This video explains one such advance, optogenetics. This article explains one advance in studying the brain.   2) Neuroscience And The Law […]