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Post Of The Week – Tuesday 28th August 2019
1) Definitions Of Abnormality Here is Tony David from the UCL Institute Of Mental Health on defining mental health. This links to the definitions with which we deal in our course. 2) Is The Bystander Effect A Myth? Here is a piece of video from the BBC. 3) The History Of Genetics I’ve been […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 1st October 2017
1) Conspirators In Their Own Memory Loss We’ve been working this week in Year 1 on explanations of forgetting. We focused on two broader evaluation points. Interference and retrieval failure due to absence as cues as explanations of forgetting are based on inference. They are not based on direct observation but rather are based on […]
Post Of The Week -Saturday 19th December 2015
1) Plain Packaging For Cigarettes This link takes you to the breakfast show on BBC Radio Bristol. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03862bs#play If you wind to 2 hrs 12 mins on the programme, you can hear Olivia Maynard from the University Of Bristol explain some research into plain packaging. Essentially, the lack of visual cues on the packaging forces […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 26th September, 2015
1) Keeping A Spotless Mind We’ve been getting interested in cognitive neuroscience in AS this week. We’ve been looking at the idea of looking inside the brain if we want to understand what actually happens when we remember something. We have also been thinking about how insights from neuroscience move us away from the mechanistic […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 19th July, 2015
1) Tax Sugary Drinks A tax on sugary drinks is now being backed by the British Medical Association. Part of the proposal is to use the money to subsidise more healthy food. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33479118 I first used a BBC World Service report on the proposal for sugar tax in New York City in early 2010. It […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 20th September 2014.
1) The Biochemistry Of Depression The amine hypothesis is still our starting point for understanding the biology of depression. The idea is that depression is the consequence of imbalances in the key neurotransmitters, noradrenaline and serotonin. It’s an idea that has been around for the best part of half a century and one which is easy […]
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