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Post Of The Week – Saturday 27th March, 2021
1) Genes For Autism When the human genome was published 20 years ago, people thought it would be possible to identify genes for particular conditions. This has turned out not to be the case but the idea persists as an assumption. This article explains the problem. There are genetic variants associated with autism but these […]
Post Of The Week – Tuesday 30th July 2019
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 – Monday 17th June 2019
1) Nature And Well-Being This is a theme behind the practical we do in Year 1 comparing a mindfulness video and a walk in a biodiverse environment for their effect in reducing stress. This article and this article relate to same piece of research which is published here. It shows an association between spending two […]
Post Of The Week – Wednesday May 8th, 2019
1) Anna Freud Centre The Anna Freud Centre is moving to new premises. This article is a profile of its director, Peter Fonagy. His is an interesting story of the importance of therapy. The centre has also become multi-disciplinary, a reflection of the way in which Psychology is developing. 2) Missing Heritability We know with […]
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 – 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 – Sunday 3rd September 2017
1) More On Gender This article looks at how researchers argue about male and female brains. In our course, we understand that alpha bias involves exaggerating differences between the genders while beta bias involves diminishing them. From a feminist perspective, differences have been exaggerated while some neuroscientists maintain that male and female brains are structurally […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday, 16th July 2017
1) Biological Rhythms As an introduction to what biological rhythms are and why we have them, this is pretty good. 2) How do anti-depressants actually work? This article neatly sums up what we do and don’t know about how antidepressants work. We no longer study biological treatments for depression as part of our course […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday April 22nd 2017
1) More On Short Term And Long Term Memory More articles have appeared about research into the formation of memories in mice. There are two here and here. The key idea is that, rather than information passing from short term to long term memory, short and long term memories of an event are formed simultaneously. This […]
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