Tag Archives: definitions of abnormality
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 – 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 – 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 – Thursday 19th September 2019
1) Nudges The Year 1 induction task includes a section on nudges. Giles Yeo in the video we watch makes changes to the arrangement of drinks in the fridges of takeaways in order to push people to buy healthier drinks. This article explains a similar process with the online orders at McDonalds. 2) Contagious […]
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 29th April, 2018
1) Genetics Of Depression A new study has come out, identifying 44 genetic variants as risk factors for depression. Here is an account from the Institute Of Psychiatry, Psychology And Neuroscience where some of the researchers on the study were based. Here is an account from The Guardian. There are two salient points. Firstly, there […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday January 6th, 2018
1) Internet Gaming Disorder The new version of ICD, the International Classification of Diseases from the World Health Organisation will include internet gaming disorder. This is controversial. It’s important for a couple of reasons. If something appears in the ICD list, it is something that you can get treatment for: someone else will pay. Secondly, […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 21st May 2016
1) Food Advertising The way in which food is advertised and packaged gets a mention as a factor influencing attitudes to food and a factor influencing obesity. This article suggests that in addition to bans on television advertising, measures need to be taken to restrict billboard advertising and other forms of marketing. https://theconversation.com/advertising-has-the-power-to-make-children-fat-and-this-needs-to-stop-58899 As with […]
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