Category Attitudes To Mental Illness
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 27th July, 2021
1) Neocortex And Cerebellum Here’s Hank Green talking about these two areas and why they might be important for what makes us uniquely human. This is useful for showing us how neuroscience changes as assumptions are challenged. 2) Disorders In our course, we study Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as an example of a pathology. In doing […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 19th June 2021
The blog’s been away for a few weeks as the assessment cycles took their course. There are a few things now on which to catch up. 1) This BBC news feature covers some of the research we look at in Year 2 when studying obesity. It looks in particular at how research into the genetic […]
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 4th May 2021
It’s been a busy time with assessments. Nevertheless, Psychology carries on. Here are some recent highlights. 1) Steven Pinker On Milgram Here is the lecture from his Harvard series. Steven Pinker recommends watching Milgram’s own film. You can find that here. 2) The Reunion – Romanian Orphanages Here’s a radio programme about the Romanian orphanages […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th April 2021
1) Meet Your Microglia This video from SciShow Psych is well worth watching. When we study Biopsychology, we focus on neurons. There is a good reason for that. We have known about them for well over a hundred of years, we can detect their activity using EEG and can see them in post-mortem studies of […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd April 2021
1) Online Apps For Depression One of the strengths of CBT for depression which we consider as part of our course is that CBT can be adapted for online use, making it accessible for people who might not want to see a therapist face to face. This article suggests that such therapy can be effective. […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st March 2021
1) OCD And The Adolescent Brain We’ll be looking at biological explanations of OCD in Year 1 next week. Here is an article about OCD and the adolescent brain. It contains ideas about how OCD in adolescence might be researched. 2) Change The Story This is a link to a fund raising campaign for the […]
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 22nd October 2019
1) Siblings Of Problem Gamblers When we study risk factors in addiction, we look at the idea of personality as a risk factor, linking this to genetic differences in impulsivity between individuals. As evidence, we use work done by Karen Ersche which featured in a BBC news report a few years ago. This evidence from […]
Post Of The Week – Monday 17th June 2019
1) Nature And Well-Being This is a theme behind the practical we do in Year 1 comparing a mindfulness video and a walk in a biodiverse environment for their effect in reducing stress. This article and this article relate to same piece of research which is published here. It shows an association between spending two […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 28th April, 2019
1) All In The Mind – Clarke And Carrie Carlisle Clarke Carlisle was a professional footballer. He has suffered severe depression. He and his wife talk about their experience in this episode of All In The Mind. It is extraordinarily good. We’ve been thinking about the definition of abnormality in terms of failure to function […]
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