Monthly Archives: May 2017
Post Of The Week – Sunday 28th May 2017
1) The Mind-Body Problem We’ve been struggling a bit with reductionism and levels of explanation in Year 2 revision: it is the issue/debate which has given us the most trouble. This article contains not only a useful account of fMRI but also an account of the debate between dualism and materialism which goes back to […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 20th May 2017
1) Anorexia Nervosa In Young Children This article starts by looking at anorexia nervosa in pre-pubescent children and moves on to a more general and authoritative overview of what anorexia nervosa is and isn’t. The article focuses on family therapy while playing down the validity of family systems theory. Whilst social pressures and traumatic events […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th May, 2017
1) Freud’s Birthday Here’s a video via TED-Ed exploring some of the key principles of Freud’s theory. 2) Placebos It’s obvious from randomised controlled trials that some people get better even though they receive only a placebo treatment. The effect of thinking that a treatment will do some good is positive. This article looks at […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 6th May 2017
1) Split Brain Patients This article refers to a piece of research about split brain patients which was published a couple of months ago. Sperry’s split brain research is designed to show how each half of the brain works separately in patients whose corpus callosum has been severed. An object presented to the left visual field […]
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