Tag Archives: fMRI
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd July, 2021
Unlocking The Secrets Of The Brain – Matt Roser Matt Roser researches the brain at Plymouth University. In this podcast, he talks about split brain research and about where brain research is going now. He refers to the new centre opening up next to the Derriford Hospital which you can read about here. This centre […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st February 2021
1) Characteristics Of Depression We’ll be looking at clinical characteristics of depression in Year 1 in the next few weeks. This article explains how loss of interest and pleasure in activities is a characteristic of depression. It also explains why reactivating such activities is beneficial. 2) Nicotine Replacement Therapy We’ll be looking at this as […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 2nd November 2019
1) Anorexia nervosa rates increase among 8 to 12-year olds That is the title of this news release from the IOPPN. As the article indicates, this might be connected to changes in social pressures on young children. It might also be connected to changes in the way in which data is collected. 2) Ways […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 4th November, 2018
1) Seven To Eight Hours Of Sleep This article reports research which suggests that everyone needs 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night. That’s important for the research we look at on circadian and ultradian rhythms. 2) Improving Antidepressant Outcomes When we write about the effectiveness of a therapy, we assume that we […]
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 28th August 2018
1) Sleep And Studying The Brain This article from BBC Future looks at how brain imaging is used to understand what happens in our brains when we sleep. It shows who research moves on. The research that Dement and Kleitman did in the 1950s used EEG to demonstrate different stages of sleep. Modern methods can […]
Post Of The Week – Monday 13th August 2018
1) T Tests Here is a video from Crash Course explaining t tests. You don’t need to know everything on here for the exam but it’s good background on why for a t test you need similar distributions and standard deviations. 2) Screen Time This article on screen time makes a powerful point about […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 6th May, 2018
1) A New Prime Suspect For Depression We’ve seen in recent weeks how research gradually fills gaps in our knowledge. Recent research into OCD looks at how the gap between what we know about genes, serotonin and the basal ganglia is gradually being filled. There’s something similar happening in this article about depression. It looks at […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 13th August, 2017
1) Smartphones This article looks at the effect of smartphones on children and adolescents. It challenges claims by Jean Twenge, whose work we look at in the context of locus of control, about the damaging effect of phones on well-being. It’s useful for us in a couple of ways. Firstly, it raises some research methods […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th June, 2017
1) Gene Editing This video from the Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust describes the process of gene editing. We spend a fair bit of out time thinking about genetic explanations for things. The assumption in the longer term is that, if you know what these are, you can do something about them. 2) […]
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