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This blog is a slight departure from my usual posts as a recent news story has raised some thoughts for me that I wanted to write about. As a therapist, I’m always interested in human behavior, especially when it comes to inequality. I understand that humans often act irrationally, and I think discrimination is often [...]
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Welcome to Psych Web! This Web site contains lots of psychology-related information for students and teachers of psychology.
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I read a lot of bloggers; I feel it's important to keep connected to what other parents are dealing with, and to read a diversity of autistic bloggers, as well as blogs dealing with disability.One of the things that I can't help but focus on is how we are all involved in similar life experiences. All of us will deal with health issues, all of us will deal with the loss of loved ones, with financial struggles, with the big questions of why we are here and what our purpose is.On many blogs, where […]
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I grew up in an affluent home, but there I was at 16 years old shooting heroin. It didn’t matter that I was living the "American Dream", I still became the "American Nightmare."
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According to author Laura Vanderkam in her newest e-book What the Most Successful People Do At Work: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Career, the secret to “astonishing productivity” lies in daily disciplines. In the book Vanderkam outlines seven of these disciplines: mind your hours; plan; make success possible; know what is work; practice; [...]
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Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a study showing development of individuality in genetically identical mice. It's not the genetics, and it's not the environment. Rather, it's how you experience your environment that makes an individual difference. Head over and check it out! (Source)
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{via etsy by ColorMeLucky} Every Monday features a tip, activity, inspiring quote or some other tidbit that helps boost your body image, whether directly or indirectly — and hopefully kick-starts your week on a positive note! Got a tip for improving body image? Email me at mtartakovsky at gmail dot com, and I’ll be happy [...]
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Does thinking too specifically about a bet make you more likely to lose?
Making Habits, Breaking Habits
In his new book, Jeremy Dean--psychologist and author of PsyBlog--looks at how habits work, why they are so hard to change, and how to break bad old cycles and develop new healthy, creative, happy habits.
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Often in my college programs I share the story of how my best friend from kindergarten started out our 6th grade year by telling me I was too fat to be her friend. She told me it was because she wanted to be popular in middle school and I was too fat to be seen [...]
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"I'm a sociopath"
"Are you scamming me?"Read more →
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We all hope to stay physically and mentally active as we grow older but the reality is often very different. Research has demonstrated that certain cognitive abilities tend to decease as we grow older, including perceptual speed and episodic memory,...
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SAN FRANCISCO—Standing at a podium in front of an audience of psychiatrists, clinicians and scientists, Firdaus Dhabhar brings up a video of his infant son on a large projector screen and presses play. Smiling and wriggling, Dhabhar’s son rests on his back in a doctor’s office—perfectly content. “Watch for the immediate reaction,” Dhabhar tells the [...]
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I am frequently asked “What is mindfulness?” I start by saying something poignant like “It’s being aware and in the present moment” or “It’s about allowing each experience to wash over us like a cool spring rain, without attachment or judgments.” I love these answers and they generally tend to spawn a lively conversation about [...]
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Publication of US psychiatry's updated diagnostic code has provoked renewed debate in recent weeks over the extent to which mental illness ought to be framed as a psychosocial or a biological problem. The answer of course is that it is both. A new Canadian study captures this interplay, showing how close friendships appear to mitigate the risk for girls whose genes mean they are more vulnerable than average to depression.
Mara Brendgen and her colleagues studied 294 pairs of twins aged ten […]
Brendgen, M., Vitaro, F., Bukowski, W., Dionne, G., Tremblay, R. & Boivin, M. (2013). Can friends protect genetically vulnerable children from depression?, Development and Psychopathology, 25 (02) 277-289. DOI: 10.1017/S0954579412001058
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I'm gonna try and be fairly brief in this post on the paper by Valerio Napolioni and colleagues* (open-access) looking at plasma cytokine profiles in cases of autism and their asymptomatic siblings. Brief because (a) the paper is open-access and (b) the participant groups (autism: n=25; sibling controls n=25) were relatively small so one has to be quite careful in extrapolating the findings with any large degree of confidence.Siblings by Paul Klee @ WikiPaintings Just in case you are […]
Napolioni V, Ober-Reynolds B, Szelinger S, Corneveaux JJ, Pawlowski T, Ober-Reynolds S, Kirwan J, Persico AM, Melmed RD, Craig DW & Smith CJ (2013). Plasma cytokine profiling in sibling pairs discordant for autism spectrum disorder., Journal of neuroinflammation, 10 38. PMID: 23497090
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Kristin Selby Gonzalez 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon Drawing by Chato Stewart Kristin Selby Gonzalez received a grim fate on Oct. 15, 2004. She was told her son, Jaxson had Autism and that he would never look, talk, have any friends and would be in a group home by the time he was 8 years [...]
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Bobby Durham 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon Drawing by Chato Stewart I was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. 10th of eleven children. I have two beautiful grown daughters and a grandson, age 5. I remarried in 1999 and have been since. I was diagnosed manic depressive in 1999 but knew prior to that that [...]
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People often think that successful people are attractive. But what about their less successful counterparts? Are they destined to be seen as less attractive? In a study involving hypothetical job applicants, those candidates described as being “underdogs” -- i.e., they were unlikely to get a particular job due to unfair circumstances beyond their control (e.g., their application had been misplaced by a secretary) -- were rated as especially physically attractive and desirable to
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Victoria Cannon 2013 Mental Health Hero Cartoon-A-Thon Drawing by Chato Stewart ” I’m a cheerleader, cheering others on for better mental health!” I have had depression and anxiety since childhood, but I refused to get treatment because even at a young age I knew the shame of seeing a “shrink”. In 1993 I was living [...]
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NIMH Director Thomas Insel on working toward a new understanding of the brain.
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To reach your full potential: follow your passion, set goals, structure your day, develop good habits, and seek feedback. You'll be amazed by what you achieve.What To Do When You’re Not Living Up To Your Potential is a post from the positive psychology blog, Soon I Will Be Successful.
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