Monthly Archives: September 2018

Post Of The Week – Sunday 30th September, 2018

September 30, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Research Methods, Social Influence · Leave a comment

1) Sarah-Jayne Blakemore On The Teenage Brain She is on BBC Inside Science here: you need to wind about 19 minutes into the programme. She talks about recent experiments about risk taking. There’s an interesting example of how experiments about the effect of having a peer next to you in a driving simulation game is […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 23rd September, 2018

September 23, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Obedience, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Neurofeedback When we study phobias, we look at the way in which a conditioned fear response is replaced with a more positive response in systematic desensitisation. The problem with this is that the person still has to be exposed to their feared object or situation, albeit in stages. Neurofeedback gets round this in an […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 16th September 2018

September 16, 2018 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods · Leave a comment

1) The Complete Guide To The Science Of Mindfulness Later in the year in Year 1, we’ll looking at mindfulness in the context of the work we do on the fight or flight response. This article summarises what is know about the science of  mindfulness. In many ways, it is like other areas of psychology. […]

Post Of The Week – Tuesday 4th September 2018

September 4, 2018 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Learning, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Social Influence, Stress, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) Genes And Educational Achievement This article explains recent research about the influence of genes on educational achievement. It is bigger than you might think.   2) Parity Of Esteem Here is Will Self’s account of a friend being sectioned and placed in a mental hospital. He has some uncomfortable and controversial things to say […]