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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 21st August 2016
1) The Safety Of Interventions For Smoking When I started teaching the addictive behaviour option in 2012, drug treatments for addiction seemed dangerously experimental. This article shows how far we have come. It reports on a large scale, multi-centre RCT looking at the risks associated with bupropion, varenicline and NRT as interventions for smoking. There […]
Post Of The Week -Saturday 30th April 2016
1) Willem Kuyken on Mindfulness Based CBT A study has come out this week which shows that MCBT is effective in preventing relapse in people suffering multiple episodes of depression. You can read about that here. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can prevent recurrent depression Kuyken gives an extended interview about this study and other issues connected […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday April 17th 2016
1) Some Commentary On Addiction We’re about to finish Addictive Behaviour in A2. I’ve been reworking some of the webpages to bring them up to date. Here are three links which illustrate some of the things I have been thinking about. http://www.psypost.org/2016/04/treating-sugar-addiction-like-drug-abuse-study-42179 This article explains how Varenicline could be used to treat excessive sugar consumption. […]
Post Of The Week -Sunday 13th March 2016
1) A History Of The Brain http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b017b1zd/episodes/player This series of radio talks explores how the study of the brain has evolved over time. 2) The Mental Elf On Varenicline …. We’ll be looking at biological interventions to prevent smoking after the holidays. It is also on the new A Lebel course. Success has been […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 7th November 2015
1) Neurotribes This book is by Steve Silberman. I have included a link to his TED Talk on autism on the blog before. The book has just won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/rallying-call-respect-difference Here’s a review about it from The Psychologist. 2) Omega 3 For explanations for the success of dieting in A2, […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 18th October 2015
1) Randomised Controlled Trials In Education I have been teaching people for a few years now that education suffers from a lack of RCTs. This is fundamentally because people do not wish to see students allocated to a condition randomly which may not be optimal for their education. This was what we learnt Term 1 […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 10th May, 2015
1) Varenicline In Reduction As Well As Cessation Of Smoking Most trials of smoking cessation start with people who commit to stop smoking on a particular date and follow them to see for how long they can stop. This does not however reflect the way many people give up smoking: gradually reduce their level of […]
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