Monthly Archives: December 2018
Post Of The Week – Sunday 30th December, 2018
1) What Makes Me, Me? This is the third of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures. It’s aimed at an audience younger than sixth form but deals with some of the content of our course – natural selection, lactase persistence – as well as presenting contemporary controversies about genes and environment. It is worth sticking […]
Post Of The Week – Wednesday 20th December 2018
1) Recovery After Trauma We think about this in Year 2 Biopsychology. Here are some individual stories of trauma and recovery sensitively told. 2) How imagination can help people overcome fear and anxiety In our course, we look at the effectiveness of systematic desensitisation and flooding in treating phobias. SD works on the principle […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 9th December 2018
1) Hyperthymesia This video from SciShow explains hyperthymesia, also known as highly superior autobiographical memory. There are references to the work we do on memory and also on OCD. This article makes a link to the practical we run on false memory at the start of Year 2. 2) How The Brain Works This […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 2nd December 2018
1) Broca’s Aphasia This video features Sarah Scott. She had a stroke when she was 18, resulting in the development of aphasia. She talks in this video about losing and then regaining the use of speech. Here she is at an earlier stage of her recovery having her brain scanned. 2) Neural Networks In […]
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