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Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st February 2021
1) Characteristics Of Depression We’ll be looking at clinical characteristics of depression in Year 1 in the next few weeks. This article explains how loss of interest and pleasure in activities is a characteristic of depression. It also explains why reactivating such activities is beneficial. 2) Nicotine Replacement Therapy We’ll be looking at this as […]
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 – Sunday 28th April, 2019
1) All In The Mind – Clarke And Carrie Carlisle Clarke Carlisle was a professional footballer. He has suffered severe depression. He and his wife talk about their experience in this episode of All In The Mind. It is extraordinarily good. We’ve been thinking about the definition of abnormality in terms of failure to function […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 21st April 2019
1) Nicotine This article explains how nicotine replacement therapy works. It refers to a Cochrane Review which has just been published. 2) Kevin Mitchell – Innate We have used in Year 1 some video of Kevin Mitchell talking about the impact of genes on behaviour. Here is an excellent review of his recent book, […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 14th April 2019
1) Sci Show On Genetic Testing Here’s Hank with an overview of genetic testing, showing what genetic testing can and cannot tell us. 2) Precise brain stimulation boosts memory This news story from the BBC explains research which has used brain stimulation to boost working memory. The effects are short lived but surprising. […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday, February 10th 2019
1) Following On From Our Practical Firstly, the video extract we watched to explain the impact of the natural environment is now here. It’s powerful. This research paper came out last week. It comes from the Myriad team who are researching the introduction of mindfulness training into schools. For mindfulness to be accepted and be […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 28th October 2018
1) E-Cigarettes We don’t study e-cigarettes as part of our course when we look at methods of reducing addiction. That doesn’t mean to say though that people do not use them as a way of reducing their use of tobacco. The problem is that the evidence about how safe they are is mixed and complex. […]
Post Of The Week – Monday 20th August 2018
1) Tobacco And Psychosis One of the evaluation points we use when evaluating methods of reducing addiction in relation to tobacco is that many people use tobacco to help them deal with mental health problems. Methods of reducing tobacco use are likely to be ineffective if the problem underlying tobacco use is somewhere else. This […]
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