Tag Archives: social cognition

Post Of The Week – Saturday 20th February, 2016

February 20, 2016 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Learning, Memory, Nature - Nurture, Treating Mental Disorders, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

1) In The Mind When this blog started two and a half years ago, references to public perception of mental health in the media were rare enough to include a link in a post. They have now become so common that it would be foolish to include everything which comes up. The centrepiece of the BBC […]

Post Of The Week – Saturday 4th July 2015

July 4, 2015 · by · in Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Models Of Abnormality, Neuroscience, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

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 6th September, 2014

September 6, 2014 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Depression, Early Social Development, Eating Behaviour, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

A day or two late. It has been a busy week ….. 1) Ashya King I’ve been following the story this week, mostly because the hospital from which he was taken by his parents, Southampton General, is the hospital in which I was born. It has, however, been interesting from  a Psychology point of view […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 24th October

October 24, 2013 · by · in Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Nature - Nurture, Neuroscience, Stress · Leave a comment

1) Inside Science – Steve Jones and Robert Plomin There’s been some controversy over the last couple of weeks about genetics and intelligence.  There are several articles online about what Dominic Cummings, an adviser to Michael Gove, said or didn’t say about genetics and intelligence. Much more sensible is this discussion between two highly respected […]