Monthly Archives: October 2018
Post Of The Week – Sunday 28th October 2018
1) E-Cigarettes We don’t study e-cigarettes as part of our course when we look at methods of reducing addiction. That doesn’t mean to say though that people do not use them as a way of reducing their use of tobacco. The problem is that the evidence about how safe they are is mixed and complex. […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st October 2018
1) Stages Of Sleep This article describes research into the function of stages of sleep. When we study ultradian rhythms, we identify as a strength of the research describing each stage that it has been influential because it has raised the question of what these stages are for. Slow wave sleep appears to help us […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 14th October 2018
1) Body Clock – What Makes Us Tick This programme from the BBC is about circadian rhythms. It mixed a partial replication of Siffre’s pioneering research and attempts to alter the 24 hour cycle to replicate jet lag with stories of people with problems with sleeping and waking. The science was clear in separating endogenous […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 7th October 2018
1) Machine Reductionism We’ve come across this idea in Year 1 when looking at memory. Whether or not it is appropriate to think of the brain as a computer is a highly complex question. This article explores some of that complexity. 2) The Anatomy Of Loneliness The BBC in collaboration with the Wellcome Collection […]
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