Tag Archives: connectome
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 – 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 – Sunday 25th February 2018
1) Effectiveness Of Antidepressants A large scale study was published this week about the effectiveness of antidepressants. Here is the BBC story. There’s been a bit of debate about what this research actually means. The Mental Elf has something important to say here. This is very good from Neuroskeptic. 2) Test For Autism In […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 23rd July 2017
1) Nigel Owens On Bulimia Nervosa Eating disorders is an area of Psychology where alpha bias has persisted. They are seen as being peculiarly female problems. This is challenged in this article by Nigel Owens, the rugby referee. The article reminds us that eating disorders can affect males as well as females. It also reminds […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 11th March 2017
1) The Effects Of Stress We’ve just been doing fight or flight response in Year 1. Here’s a timely illustration of the effects of the stress response on health. 2) Mark Williams On Mindfulness Here’s Mark Williams, one of the founding figures of Mindfulness Based CBT explaining where it came from and what its […]
Post Of The week – Saturday 7th January, 2017
1) How Do Connectomes Contribute to Human Cognition? The answer to this question is explained in this brief article from Scientific American. It sums up neatly how we understand structure and plasticity within the brain. 2) Eating Disorders In Males We quote the figure of 9:1 for the ratio of female to male diagnosis of […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th September 2014
1) Diets Again I posted last week a link to a BBC story about diets. There’s a dispute going on at the moment between supporters of low carb and low fat diets. This story seemed to suggest that really it doesn’t matter which you choose provided that you stick to it. This blog offers a […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 15th August
1) Memory I thought it would be good to write something about memory this week to continue to redress the bias towards A2 in previous posts. Here’s Sebastian Seung talking about the connectome in a TED lecture. This represents a way of thinking about memory radically different from the older theories we study in the […]
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