Monthly Archives: March 2018

Post Of The Week – Sunday 25th March 2018

March 25, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Depression, Nature - Nurture, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Genetic Basis Of Educational Achievement Here’s the latest from the IOPPN on genetics and educational achievement, looking ate differences in polygenic scores between students in different types of school. This should get us thinking about nature and nurture. Students, you won’t be surprised to hear, are different from each other.   2) Psychological Treatment […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th March 2018

March 18, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Memory, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Stephen Reicher – Life Scientific In this programme, Stephen Reicher discusses social identity and crowds.   2) Addiction In Year 2, we have hit the idea of understanding addiction holistically. This article is from a couple of years ago but is highly relevant to this idea. It explicitly rejects the medical model of addiction […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday March 11th 2018

March 11, 2018 · by · in Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Neurogenesis When we study plasticity of the brain, we touch on the controversy of whether adults can develop new neurons. It was thought for many years that adults could not grow new neurons. 20 years ago, research began to emerge which suggested that the brain could produce new cells in the same way as […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 4th March 2018

March 4, 2018 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Genetic Basis Of Autism I’ve been working on the Biological Approach this week in preparation for the work we will do in Year 1. I’ve been looking in particular at the idea that with OCD, we cannot link a particular gene to a particular neurochemical abnormality in a particular part of the brain. This […]