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Post Of The Week – Saturday 8th October 2016

October 8, 2016 · by · in Cognition And Development, Memory, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Super Recognisers We’re on eye witness testimony in AS/Year 1. The research behind this link concerns officers whose job it is to recognise people from still images and CCTV: “super recognisers”. The research identified members of the public using a test in the Science Museum who were exceptionally good at this task. It found that […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 6th September, 2014

September 6, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

A day or two late. It has been a busy week ….. 1) Ashya King I’ve been following the story this week, mostly because the hospital from which he was taken by his parents, Southampton General, is the hospital in which I was born. It has, however, been interesting from  a Psychology point of view […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 21st August 2014

August 21, 2014 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Obedience, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) Uta Frith On The History Of Autism http://sfari.org/news-and-opinion/blog/2014/guest-blog-london-as-a-crucible-for-autism-in-the-1950s In this article, Uta Frith explains some of the background to the development of autism as a diagnosis. Three important ideas emerge from this. Firstly, it is worth reminding ourselves how recent the classification and diagnosis of autism is. Uta Frith started a PhD in 1964 at […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 12th June

June 12, 2014 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Learning, Memory, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) “In My Room” by Jim Lucey Jim Lucey is a psychiatrist in Dublin. The room in the title refers both to the room in which Jim Lucey sees his patients but also to the idea of creating a space for our own mental health. The book focuses on the stories of individual patients: Lucey explains in […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 29th August

August 29, 2013 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience, Relationships · Leave a comment

1) The Men Who Made Us Thin (Again) This programme has continued to cover research relevant to our course.  Here’s a link to Programme 3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b038913v One section of this deals with the controversy generated by Dr. Katherine Flegal’s research which challenges the claim that a BMI of more than 25 is associated with poorer health outcomes. […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 18th July

July 18, 2013 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Mental Illness And Stigma The BBC3 season on mental illness continues to challenge us to think in a different way. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01b3s86 Last night’s programme was called “Diaries Of A Broken Mind”. It used a video diary format to tell the stories of 25 young people. I didn’t enjoy the format (because I am old) […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 11th July

July 11, 2013 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Neuroscience, Stress · Leave a comment

1) Gender And Attitudes To Mental Illness The best research I have seen this week has been in-house, not online. We’ve seen significant results from two of three groups investigating gender and attitudes to mental illness, with the third group posting marginally insignificant results. There is good evidence that boys have a less positive attitude. […]