Tag Archives: Human Brain Project

Post Of The Week – Tuesday 30th July 2019

July 30, 2019 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Young, British And Depressed Channel 4 broadcast a programme with this title as part of Dispatches yesterday. I don’t have a link but it should be possible to find it however you access Channel 4. It looked at two specific issues. One was about whether it makes sense to put a label on the […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 13th August, 2017

August 13, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Biopsychology, Eating Behaviour, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

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 – Sunday 4th September 2016

September 4, 2016 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Surgery Ban Last week, I was working on biological explanations of obesity. I was looking for a news story I dimly remembered about people with obesity being denied surgery unless they could lose weight. I hunted around on the internet and found something. As it turned out, I needn’t have bothered as this has […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday, July 19th 2014

July 19, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

A couple of days late due to the end of term ….. 1) Varenicline, Nicotine Replacement Therapy And Smoking Elsewhere on this blog, we have seen research suggesting that Varenicline is an effective biological intervention to help people stop smoking. Varenicline seems to work well in combination with Bupropion. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140708165717.htm#.U71ERKFbwEw.twitter This article looks at what […]