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Ed Pazicky 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon Drawing by Chato Stewart After a long period of hospitalization in 1992-93, Ed connected with a local drop-in center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he began his recovery. He helped to organize a Print Shop at the center and started advocating for members of the center. He became [...]
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Joe Kraynak 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon Drawing by Chato Stewart Joe Kraynak is a freelance writer who has authored and coauthored dozens of books on topics ranging from personal computers to slam poetry. Joe received his degree in bipolar disorder from the College of Hard Knocks. On December 10, 1999,… READ MORE See Your [...]
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It was all from a single leaf. “I had no idea,” she said. “I thought I knew exactly what they felt like, I was shocked. When I think about it, I realize now how reactive I am to things around me. I think I know exactly who this person is or whether I’ll like a [...]
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Most of us want to get along well with other people. One way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If you make a person feel smart and insightful, that person will more likely enjoy your company. The point is not to be manipulative, but to help other people feel good [...]
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Maybe the best outcome of the brutally stereotypical article about the narcissism of Millennials is this: it's brought out a lot of folks eager to defend young people.read more
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¿Has escuchado alguna vez el caso de alguien que después de la amputación de un miembro -p. ej., un brazo- haya experimentado o referido movimiento o sensaciones "extrañas" en ese miembro que ya no tiene? ¿O, incluso, dolor o parálisis? Ese es el caso del "miembro fantasma" y, aunque suene algo tenebroso, no obedece a la sugestión de la persona, ni al duelo ni a que una "parte del alma" se haya
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The Irish poet Brendan Behan is, I think, credited with the phrase: "There's no bad publicity except an obituary". One wonders how appropriate this phrase might be to the 'diagnostic Bible' (except that it isn't) which is DSM-V which is poised to make its entrance into the World in the coming days.The real Homer @ Wikipedia Indeed, the story of DSM-V even before it hits the diagnostic shelves of all good psychiatric bookshops, has the makings of an epic piece of poetry or literature, […]
Ian B Hickie1, Jan Scott, Daniel F Hermens, Elizabeth M Scott, Sharon L Naismith, Adam J Guastella, Nick Glozier & Patrick D McGorry (2013). Clinical classification in mental health at the cross-roads: which direction next?, BMC Medicine, 11 126. Other: Link
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Over the past 4 years, the Neuroscience Information Framework systematically scanned the literature, internet and social buzz for all things neuroscience (& biomedical science). This tedious bookkeeping has resulted in the largest, most comprehensive catalog of neuroscience-relevant information ever amassed – with the added bonus of semantically enhanced search functions. And now, we would like [...]
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Over the past 4 years, the Neuroscience Information Framework systematically scanned the literature, internet and social buzz for all things neuroscience (& biomedical science). This tedious bookkeeping has resulted in the largest, most comprehensive catalog of neuroscience-relevant information ever amassed – with the added bonus of semantically enhanced search functions. And now, we would like [...]
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*Stream Neuroscience, **VIII Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics” (AACIMP-2013)* The stream “Neuroscience” includes a broad range of topics from subcellular level to cognition and social behaviour considered mainly from computational point of view. It provides all required information to understand the biological bases of modelled processes. *Preliminary topics of [...]
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A few weeks ago, as I was sitting with some friends over dinner, there were multiple times when a lot of “shoulds” circulated through the conversation. “He should have picked you up for the date,” or “he shouldn’t act like that.” I myself was guilty as charged, “should-ing” here and there as well. And then, [...]
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Why does it matter if one person decides to tell the world that she’s gotten a double mastectomy? Well, if that one person happens to be Angelina Jolie, it means that there will suddenly be a whole lot more people who now know about the harmful consequences of having a faulty BRCA1 gene, a genetic [...]
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Ibrahim Iujaz via Compfight Life was so messy and topsy-turvy before my ADHD diagnosis, these days I make a conscious effort to notice how (and when) things have changed for the better. Otherwise, I might just notice the places where I’m still messy, still awkward, still completely incapable of assembling small furniture or a batch [...]
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When the Australian special forces soldier identified as only "Trooper M" returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, his frequent nightmares and anxiety led him to seek professional help. In an interview with Lateline, the 23-year old veteran reported...
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Today's post is part of the Carnival of Evidence-Based Parenting. The theme, transition to motherhood, makes me sentimental even though I've been a parent for 12 years. This month Jessica Smock hosts the carnival on her blog School of Smock. Check out the links to the other posts there. You can catch us on Facebook too where we welome links to similarly evidence-based posts. I'm dedicating this to my bestie who with hubby just welcomed two little girls into this world.
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When things are going well, the rocks and pebbles that traverse your path seem like temporary and tolerable roadblocks. But throw in a sleepless night, conflict with a loved one and an illness, and any minor issue as tiny as a grain of sand can feel as painful as a shard of glass. On days [...]
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Sometimes people in therapy want to dig really deep. They wrestle with such existential questions as “Will I die when I die?” I let them wrestle first and keep my mouth shut. Then I socractically prod with such questions as “What is life? What is death? What is this thing you call “I”? But here’s [...]
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Do fluent presenters make
learning feel too easy?
Eloquent and engaging scientific communicators in the mould of physicist Brian Cox make learning seem fun and easy. So much so that a new study says they risk breeding overconfidence. When a presenter is seen to handle complicated information effortlessly, students sense wrongly that they too have acquired a firm grasp of the material.
Shana Carpenter and her colleagues showed 42 undergrad students a one-minute video of a science lecture […]
Carpenter, S., Wilford, M., Kornell, N. & Mullaney, K. (2013). Appearances can be deceiving: instructor fluency increases perceptions of learning without increasing actual learning, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI: 10.3758/s13423-013-0442-z
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Eine neue Studie zeigt: Meditation kann nicht nur die Zufriedenheit steigern und Einsamkeit lindern - von den Glücksgefühlen profitiert auch unser Herz. Sogar messbar. Jeder versteht unter Glück etwas anderes. Eine harmonische Partnerschaft hier, beruflichen Erfolg dort. Doch fernab individueller Unterschiede steht ebenso fest: Menschen sind besser dran, wenn in ihrem Herz und ihrer Seele [...]
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In their 1968 book Pygmalion in the Classroom, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson presented their groundbreaking research that showed teacher expectations are self-fulfilling prophecies. If two students start the school year at the same achievement level, the student the teacher is told is a high achiever will make more gains than the student the teacher believes is [...]
Sorhagen, N. (2013). Early teacher expectations disproportionately affect poor children's high school performance., Journal of Educational Psychology, 105 (2) 465-477. DOI: 10.1037/a0031754
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O’Brien et al. (2012). A Taxometric Investigation of Developmental Dyslexia Subtypes. Dyslexia, 18, 16-39. Keywords: developmental dyslexia; subtypes; double deficit hypothesis; taxometric analysis Long-standing issues with the conceptualization, identification and subtyping of developmental dyslexia persist. This study takes an alternative approach to examine the heterogeneity of developmental dyslexia using taxometric classification techniques. These methods were used with [...]
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image source: carmenlaffon1.blogspot.comOf course, those of us here at ScienceOfRelationships.com don't need convincing, but a recent article over at The Atlantic details some of the evidence for the claim that relationships matter more than ambition (and all the good things that come with ambition).
Read our related articles on The Need to Belong here, and what types of regrets tend to hit us the hardest here.
