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Post Of The Week – Saturday 27th February 2021
1) Human Genome In working on the Biological Approach in Year 1, I have been trying to explain how developments in brain imaging and in genetics in the 1990s led to the belief that it would be possible to offer sufficient explanations of behaviour and disorders in terms of biology. This article explains how, in […]
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 – Sunday 31st March, 2019
1) The Future Of Depression Treatment In Year 1 last week, we were looking at how understanding the biology of OCD might lead to better treatment. If the genetic basis of OCD in each individual case is understood, then treatment can be personalised. This video looks at how research in relation to depression addressing this […]
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 28th February 2015
1) Psychotherapy Does Not Work For Everyone The problems of biological therapies in the form of drugs for depression are well rehearsed. There’s evidence that they work but they clearly don’t work for everyone and the extent to which they work in reducing and eliminating symptoms is debated. We don’t really know what they do […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st December 2014
A day or so late, but it is the holidays. 1) Thomas Insel – Best Of 2014 Thomas Insel starts this article with some sobering figures. Worldwide, Ebola has killed about 6,000 people. Last year, about 800,000 people killed themselves. From this sobering start, Insel finds some good news to report. http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2014/best-of-2014.shtml He talks about […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 13th December 2014
1) Understanding Other People’s Actions In A2, we learn about mirror neurons. The AQA line, which we repeat in lessons, is that the mirror neuron system is fundamental to social cognition because it enables our brains to shadow the actions or expressions of others and understand what they are thinking and feeling. James Kilner from […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 19th December
1) Autism – Intense World Theory As part of our study of the development of a sense of self, we look at the idea that people with autism lack a theory of mind. The assumption is that there is something in the developmental process which prevents people with autism from developing the ability to see […]
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