Tag Archives: split brain
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd July, 2021
Unlocking The Secrets Of The Brain – Matt Roser Matt Roser researches the brain at Plymouth University. In this podcast, he talks about split brain research and about where brain research is going now. He refers to the new centre opening up next to the Derriford Hospital which you can read about here. This centre […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 3rd April 2021
1) Online Apps For Depression One of the strengths of CBT for depression which we consider as part of our course is that CBT can be adapted for online use, making it accessible for people who might not want to see a therapist face to face. This article suggests that such therapy can be effective. […]
Post Of The Term – Saturday 19th December 2020
The blog has been inactive for a while. It’s been a busy term. Here are some Psychology highlights of the last three months related to our course. 1) The Battle Over Dyslexia In Psychology, much depends on how we define disorders. This article tells the story of how dyslexia was originally diagnosed, how that diagnosis […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 2nd November 2019
1) Anorexia nervosa rates increase among 8 to 12-year olds That is the title of this news release from the IOPPN. As the article indicates, this might be connected to changes in social pressures on young children. It might also be connected to changes in the way in which data is collected. 2) Ways […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 14th October 2018
1) Body Clock – What Makes Us Tick This programme from the BBC is about circadian rhythms. It mixed a partial replication of Siffre’s pioneering research and attempts to alter the 24 hour cycle to replicate jet lag with stories of people with problems with sleeping and waking. The science was clear in separating endogenous […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 5th August 2018
1) Addiction To Online Gaming Here is Mark Griffiths talking sense about what is or isn’t addiction to online gaming. That should remind us that when psychologists use the term “addiction”, they mean something quite specific. The details are here. 2) The Great God Of Depression How we think of mental illness changes as […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 31st December, 2017
1) Royal Institution Christmas Lectures These were given this year by Sophie Scott. She is a professor at UCL and specialises in neuroscience. The webpage on the BBC is here. There’s a great demonstration of Broca’s area near the start of the third lecture. 2) P-Values We’ll be again trying to get our heads […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 24th September, 2017
1) The Pursuit Of Ignorance Stuart Firestein is a neuroscientist at Columbia University. In this TED Talk, he explains that science should be about what we don’t know more than about what we do know. Knowledge should just make us ask more questions. When we evaluate as part of our course, the idea of identifying […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 28th May 2017
1) The Mind-Body Problem We’ve been struggling a bit with reductionism and levels of explanation in Year 2 revision: it is the issue/debate which has given us the most trouble. This article contains not only a useful account of fMRI but also an account of the debate between dualism and materialism which goes back to […]
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