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Post Of The Week – Sunday 19th February 2017

February 19, 2017 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) MRI We make frequent reference to the use of fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging,  as a method of studying the brain during our course. The man who invented MRI, on which fMRI is based, died last week. This article explains a bit about him and his invention.   2) Sex Differences In Cognition Alpha […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday December 18th 2016

December 19, 2016 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Biopsychology, Cognition And Development, Depression, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Depression And Cardiac Arrest This article explains how depression following a heart attack is treated. There’s a bias towards giving people drugs for this, in part because they are already receiving drugs for  their heart condition and in part because in Canada, as in many other countries, access to a psychiatrist who prescribes the tablets […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 31st July 2016

July 31, 2016 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Genes For Obesity The story about genes for obesity is similar to other stories in Psychology. We know obesity runs in families but can’t yet say which particular genes are involved. That is changing though as more sophisticated genetic analysis comes on stream. We’ve known about the variant of FTO gene for a while […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 24th July 2016

July 24, 2016 · by · in Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Research Methods, Social Influence, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Turning Protest Into Powerful Change In the social change sub-topic, we look at how consistency, commitment and flexibility in the face of new evidence work to enable a minority to influence a majority. We look also at the role of majority social influence through normative and informational influence and at the role of authority figures. […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th January 2015

January 10, 2015 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Obedience, Relationships, Social Influence, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Connectome We have a look at the work of Sebastian Seung when we study the multistore model of memory. His big idea is that we are our connectome. In other words, it is how neurons are connected in our brains which make us who we are. He’s just published a book about his ideas. […]