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Here in California, we just finished another primary election, and I find it personally refreshing to get a short break from the phone calls and mailers, at least until November rolls around. As I watch little if any network television (with the notable exception of college football), I am at least spared the indignity of [...]
Parents appears to be surprised, even disappointed, to find out they don't influence whether their teen tries alcohol. But now for some good news: Parenting style strongly and directly affects teens when it comes to heavy drinking - defined as having five or more drinks in a row - as per a new Brigham Young University study........ :
In the news round-up this week, there has been a lot of media coverage around the installation of robots in a hospital in Scotland which will take on a number of roles (2). There are also studies looking at the associations of excess alpha synuclein (1), the limitations of classification software for discriminating mild cognitive [...]
Meat was an important source of nutrition for ancestral humans (as it is today, MacDonalds aside). It has been suggested that the importance of meat meant that men often traded it for other favours such as forging allegiances or for sex (Stanford, 1999 – see pages 101, 130 and 131 of our A2 Complete Companion). [...] The first "test tube baby" was born in 1978. With advances in reproductive science, an estimated one percent of all American babies are now born each year through in vitro fertilization (IVF). But IVF and other assisted fertility therapys appears to be solving one problem by creating another, suggests new evidence from Tel Aviv University........ As the World Cup action is underway this week, I’ve added a medical(ish) section at the end on football which links to a number of papers in this area. There is a particularly interesting paper on watching stressful matches which emphasises some of the potential risks and the authors comment on the implications. There are [...] A newly released study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) confirms the relationship between depression and abdominal obesity, which has been associated with an increased risk for cancer and cardiovascular disease. "We observed that in a sample of young adults during a 15-year period, those who started out reporting high levels of depression gained weight at a faster rate than others in the study, but starting out overweight did not lead to changes in depression," said UAB Assistant Professor of Sociology Belinda Needham, Ph.D. The study appears in the recent issue of the American Journal of Public Health........ 
The article reviewed here is Emotion Theory and Research: Highlights, Unanswered Questions and Emerging Issues’ by Carroll Izard and freely available here. This is a 25 page review article on emotions. In the abstract, Izard writes that ‘Emotion feeling is a phase of neurobiological activity‘ The paper is divided into theoretical principles of emotions, the [...] Quebec You don't always need to build up a big sweat to reap the healing benefits of physical activity. Research has observed that even a low-intense exercise program can reduce depression symptoms and boost physical treatment results in recovering stroke patients. "The power of physical activity to raise the spirits of recovering stroke patients is stronger than anyone suspected," Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher Dr. Jocelyn Harris told Canadian Stroke Congress, co-hosted by the Canadian Stroke Network, the Heart and Stroke Foundation, and the Canadian Stroke Consortium........ Research news this week includes the benefits of ‘friendly humour’ on mortality, research studies using the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative paradigm to compare data and the outcome of an international consensus group on antipsychotic dosing schedules. Analysis of 8 million year old fossils suggests that the ancestor of Homo Erectus would have had a diet [...] Scientists from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have identified a drug that improves communication between nerve cells in a mouse model of Phelan-McDermid Syndrome (PMS). Behavioral symptoms of PMS fall under the autism spectrum disorder category. The research will be presented Friday at the International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR) in Philadelphia........ Birds flock. Fish gather in schools. Bees swarm. Even amoebae clump together in mystifyingly clever constellations. Researchers have long wondered what is happening at the cellular and molecular level to bring about this amazing coordination of so a number of individual animals, insects and organisms into groups. It's a choreography seen throughout nature from the large-scale to the miniscule, with synchronized movements as precise as the dance lineup of a Broadway musical........ 
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May 18, 2010 The death of Richard Gregory was announced on Monday of this week. He was an extremely well-known figure in Psychology, most notably for his work on visual illusions and his classic book Eye and Brain. His website has examples of some of his illusions. He also researched artificial intelligence, was an inventor [...] It is well-known that maternal smoking during pregnancy can have long-term effects on the physical health of the child, including increased risk for respiratory disease, ear infections and asthma. New research shows that prenatal smoking also can lead to psychiatric problems and increase the need for psychotropic medications in childhood and young adulthood........ The paper reviewed here is ‘Theory of Mind Deficits in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury’ by Martin-Rodriguez and colleagues. As the title suggests, the researchers are looking at how adult acquired brain injury influences ‘Theory of Mind’ (ToM). ToM is an important component in various models of social cognition. For those not familiar with ToM, [...]
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clinicallypsyched.com Clinical psychology blog for psychology news from Clinically . Psyched Home About Psychology Events and Conferences Clinical Psychology News Select Category Clinical Psychology News Pages About Psychology Events and Conferences Recent Comments Ed van Eeden on Life With A Mentally Ill Parent A Reader’s Story Brad on Pain Hurts More If it is Intentional Susan Pavon on Life With A Mentally Ill Parent A Reader’s Story Den GoavakeEvitte on Life With A Mentally Ill Parent A Reader’s Story Clinical Psychology News Psychology Blog Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Tags bridgend suicides cigarette addiction clinically psyched clinical psychology clinical psychology blog Clinical Psychology News clinical psychology news twitter clinical psychology store mental A study of healthy new mothers in the April 1 issue of the journal Sleep observed that the perception of poor sleep and the conscious awareness of its impact on daytime functioning might be stronger predictors of immediate postpartum mood disturbances than actual sleep quality and quantity. Results indicate that both objective and subjective nighttime sleep significantly worsened with decreased total sleep time and sleep efficiency after giving birth. However, variables correlation to the subjective perception of sleep and sleep-related daytime dysfunction were stronger predictors of postpartum mood. After giving birth, subjective total sleep time at night fell from 437 minutes to 348 minutes, and mean subjective sleep efficiency decreased from 79 percent to 66 percent. Seventeen participants (46 percent) experienced some deterioration of mood after delivery........ A University of Alberta researcher is questioning the notion of "group think" a common psychological phenomenonthat has been used to explain some of the extreme things people do once they are within the confines of a group. Rob Wilson, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, rejects the popular idea that groups tend to have a mind of their own and says the notion of a collective mind is problematic........ 
The blog reviewed here is ‘Exploring Psychology’. In the About section, the author David Webb tells us that he has a Masters degree in Occupational Psychology and that he resides in Spain where he is a ‘distance learning tutor and research dissertation supervisor’. The aim of the blog is described thus ‘The exploring psychology blog [...]
Here is a list of articles that i’ve included under the heading of social psychiatry. Broadly speaking they include reviews of policy documents, cultural psychiatry and epidemiology (strictly speaking it could be included under biological psychiatry but i’ve included them here because the data is considered at the population level). Where the titles are self-explanatory [...] High school seniors, take note: A wise person once said, "It is better to shoot for the stars and miss than aim at the gutter and hit it". That's right on, says Florida State University Sociology Professor John R. Reynolds, who just completed a study to determine whether unrealized educational expectations are linked to depression among adults. Reynolds also is the director of the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State........ 
Toys are an important part of every child’s early development. However, choosing the right toy is essential.
Recently, I have been researching children’s educational toys and books and this Scientific American article about toys grabbed my attention:
Thinking Outside of the Toy Box: 4 Children’s Gizmos That Inspired Scientific Breakthroughs
The article contains several intriguing examples of scientists [...]
The document reviewed here is a Department of Health document ‘Attitudes to Mental Illness 2010′ and which is available here. I found the document slightly easier to read by starting at the back where the methodology is explained in detail. Random sampling took place and results were weighted according to the characteristics of the population [...]The paper reviewed here is ‘Impairment of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment’ by Ahn and colleagues and freely available here. In the conclusion, the authors write that ‘The patients with MCI showed impairments in the ability to perform complex ADL in comparison to healthy controls. IADLS’s related to memory [...]
Homework is an important part of your child’s daily routine. Good habits, established early in school, help children consolidate what they have learned at school.
Here are a few tips for parents to help with homework:
Develop a homework routine and schedule
Together with your child, establish a specific time and place for homework. Set a specific time [...]The paper reviewed here is ‘Dual-tasking and Gait in People with Mild Cognitive Impairment. The effect of working memory’ by Chertkow and colleagues and is freely available here. In the abstract the authors write that ‘Our findings suggest that cortical control of gait is associated with decline in working memory in people with MCI‘ In [...]
The podcasts reviewed here are the 18th and 19th episodes in the series of Mind Podcast by Arjen ter Hoeve. In the 18th episode in the series (available here) Hoeve talks about classical conditioning. He takes the audience through the process of classical conditioning explaining terms such as the conditioned stimulus and response, extinction and [...]