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Post Of The Week – Sunday 20th March 2016

March 20, 2016 · by · in Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Learning, Memory, Neuroscience · Leave a comment

1) Grid Cells One of the videos on the Types Of Memory webpage shows a lecture by Eleanor Maguire. It explains the significance of grid cells. These enable mice to navigate around simple mazes. They are the first example thinking recorded as brain activity. We can infer what the mouse is thinking directly from patterns […]

Post Of The Week – Sunday 19th July, 2015

July 19, 2015 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Tax Sugary Drinks A tax on sugary drinks is now being backed by the British Medical Association. Part of the proposal is to use the money to subsidise more healthy food. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-33479118 I first used a BBC World Service report on the proposal for sugar tax in New York City in early 2010. It […]

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. […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 29th November

November 28, 2013 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Memory, Neuroscience, Stress, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Driving And Risky Behaviour In Adolescence Along with all of Year 12, I went to Plymouth Pavilions today to watch a presentation about road safety. The presentation, from Learn 2 Live was hard hitting and at times harrowing. The adolescent brain, and in particular the way in which adolescents deal with social situations, is a […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 21st November

November 21, 2013 · by · in Attitudes To Mental Illness, Cognition And Development, Early Social Development, Treating Mental Disorders · Leave a comment

1) Eye Witness Testimony – The Innocence Project When we looked at the importance of Elizabeth Loftus’ research, we mentioned its application to cases of misidentification of criminals. The Innocence Project in the United States campaigns to exonerate prisoners who have been wrongly convicted of crimes. This exoneration often involves DNA evidence. I used to […]

Post Of The Week – Thursday 5th September

September 5, 2013 · by · in Addictive Behaviour, Cognition And Development, Depression, Eating Behaviour, Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience, Stress · Leave a comment

1) Soda Wars By the time you see this post, the fourth and final episode of The Men Who Made Us Thin will no longer be available. The programme looked at ways forward to deal with the crisis in obesity. One approach which has been taken is to tax or to limit the sale of […]