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Post Of The Week – Saturday 16th November 2019
1) Daraa In Year 1, we use a video about the early stages of the civil war in Syria to understand something about resistance to social influence. This feature from CNN tells the story of what happened in Daraa. 2) The Olfactory Bulb This is an area of the brain which is responsible for […]
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 – Tuesday 13th August 2019
1) Drug For Obesity When we study biological explanations of obesity, we consider the impact of the MC4R gene. We also consider this as a piece of socially sensitive research. One of the justifications of the research into the genes for obesity is that even though it labels and possibly stigmatises people, it gives them […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday, 11th July 2019
1) Screen Time Here is a piece of video from Andrew Przybylski about the effects of screen time. This piece from The Guardian also by him covers similar ground. It’s an example of popular fears being out of step with the science. 2) And On Gambling …. Andrew Przybylski comments at the end of […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st April 2019
1) Nicotine This article explains how nicotine replacement therapy works. It refers to a Cochrane Review which has just been published. 2) Kevin Mitchell – Innate We have used in Year 1 some video of Kevin Mitchell talking about the impact of genes on behaviour. Here is an excellent review of his recent book, […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday, February 10th 2019
1) Following On From Our Practical Firstly, the video extract we watched to explain the impact of the natural environment is now here. It’s powerful. This research paper came out last week. It comes from the Myriad team who are researching the introduction of mindfulness training into schools. For mindfulness to be accepted and be […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 15th July 2018
1) Using Virtual Reality To Treat Phobias A few months ago, I posted a link to a BBC article about virtual reality treatment for fear of heights. This week, a research study has been published in The Lancet. You can read about it here, along with using a link to the original study. Here is […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 21st April 2018
1) Genes For OCD This research came out in October last year but I only just found it. There’s a brief article here. The problem with understanding OCD to this point is that the evidence has been fragmentary. We know about genes, brain areas and serotonin but don’t know how they fit together. By isolating […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 8th July 2017
1) A Leading Happiness Researcher Says …. We’ve seen some very fine work done on research projects in the last few weeks. They have been prompted by a puzzling finding from last year: high levels of anxiety are associated with high aspiration. One group this year has found a correlation between future focus and stress. Another […]
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