Tag Archives: Simon Baron-Cohen
Post Of The Week – Sunday 10th January 2021
1) The Pattern Seekers We look at Simon Baron-Cohen’s early research into theory of mind and autism as part of Cognition And Development in Year 2. He has just published a new book, The Pattern Seekers. He writes about it in this article in New Scientist which for now, at least, is not behind a […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 13th May, 2018
1) All In The Mind This radio programme is back for a new series. There is a piece about eye witness testimony in this episode. There is a piece about exercise and depression in this episode. 2) Britain’s Fat Fight The final episode for this is available here. There is so much Psychology in […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th March 2018
1) Stephen Reicher – Life Scientific In this programme, Stephen Reicher discusses social identity and crowds. 2) Addiction In Year 2, we have hit the idea of understanding addiction holistically. This article is from a couple of years ago but is highly relevant to this idea. It explicitly rejects the medical model of addiction […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 11th February 2018
1) My Amazing Brain – Richard’s War This programme tells the story of one man’s recovery from a serious stroke. It covers some essential elements of our course: plasticity, lateralisation, localisation, language. It’s much more than that though. It shows how far medicine has got in treating such complex problems and shows us what it is […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 20th November 2016
1) Autism In Adults This article tells the story of adults diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. It goes into depth on the nature of autism and how our understanding of autism is changing. It refers in particular to the issue of gender and autism, something we have been thinking about in Year 2. 2) Motherese In […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd October 2015
1) How Memories Form And How We Lose Them This is a TED-ED lesson aimed at a less specialist audience than us. It is still worth watching, touching on some of the issues in our course. 2) Suicide Prevention In Young People Here is a summary of some research into the effectiveness of interventions in […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 4th July 2015
1) Improving response inhibition systems in frontotemporal dementia with citalopram This is interesting in lots of ways. We frequently refer to the role of the pre-frontal cortex in the inhibition of risky or socially unacceptable behaviour. Our main focus is how this develops in adolescence. There is another side to this. When people develop dementia in […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 10th January 2015
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. […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday, July 19th 2014
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 […]
Post Of The Week – Thursday 22nd May
1) Mental Health In Adolescence I spent some tutor time recently with my Year 8 group working on adolescent health issues. We were supposed to be looking at drug use, eating disorders and self-harm. You can see the results of their work on my classroom wall. What emerged very quickly was an understanding that the […]
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