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Why being reminded of your own ignorance is a good thing

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:46:46 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

My own experience is that if I'm not running into places of my own ignorance very often, I'm not pushing myself enough, not exposing myself to enough new ideas. Staying inside a bubble where only your current knowledge is enough to understand the world is like deciding that you'll never listen to any music that wasn't popular when you were growing up.

Tags: psychology, philosophy, learning, making-lighyt

Admissions to mental wards for drugs and alcohol up a third

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:25:47 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

The number of patients admitted to mental health wards because of drug or alcohol abuse has risen by almost one third in three years, latest figures show.

The rise come despite a drop in the overall number of patients in psychiatric units, from a high of 214,000 in 1998 to just over 180,000 in 2006.

Official figures released earlier this year show that one in three British adults admits to having tried illegal drugs.

Doctors have warned that high strength types of cannabis are increasing mental health problems.

Earlier this year a study showed that people who use skunk cannabis, which can be up to 10 times stronger than other types of the drug, were 18 times more likely to develop psychosis than those who smoke milder forms.

"Mental health problems that are triggered by alcohol or drug problems have to be tackled at the source by improving the nation's public health. This is yet more evidence that drugs and alcohol have a significant and detrimental effect on the nation's well-being."

Tags: drugs, alcohol

Tri-City Psychology

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:34:17 GMT

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Tri-City Psychology

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Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:01:19 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Scientists believed the frontoparietal cortex was influencing the visual cortex, but the brain scanning approach they were using, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can only complete scans about once every two seconds, which was much too slow to catch that influence in action. When researchers applied Granger causality, though, they were able to show conclusively that as volunteers waited for the stimulus to appear, the frontoparietal cortex was influencing the visual cortex, not the reverse.

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Scientists have used a technique originally developed for economic study to become the first to overcome a significant challenge in brain research: determining the flow of information from one part of the brain to another.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Florida Atlantic University report the new capability in The Journal of Neuroscience. It will provide important insights into brain organization and function, advancing efforts to help patients recover from brain injuries and mental disorders.

The approach involves comparisons of streams of data known as time series, such as fluctuations in the stock market index and changes in employment levels.

author Steven L. Bressler, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, suspected the technique might help reveal if one brain area was passing data to or influencing another brain area.

Tags: brain, information flow in the brain

Risk and reward compete in brain

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:43:47 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver

Clip Source: www.brainmysteries.com

That familiar pull between the promise of victory and the dread of defeat - whether in money, love or sport - is rooted in the brain's architecture, according to a new imaging study.

Neuroscientists at the USC Brain and Creativity Institute have identified distinct brain regions with competing responses to risk.

Both regions are located in the prefrontal cortex, an area behind the forehead involved in analysis and planning.

By giving volunteers a task that measures risk tolerance and observing their reactions with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers found that activity in one region identified risk-averse volunteers, while activity in a different region was greater in those with an appetite for risk.

"We can see risk as a battle between two forces," said Antoine Bechara, professor of psychology at USC. "There is always a lure of reward. There's always a fear of failure. These are the two forces that are always battling each other."

Tags: neuroscience, behavior, emotions, risk, fear

Think McCain may be a bit "off" - you may be right

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:36:52 GMT

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Clip Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com

Why Josh Marshall is Exactly Right about McCain’s Psychology

As a clinical psychologist I have been watching John Mccain’s behavior toward Barrack Obama with increasing concern. There have now been several small incidents that indicate that McCain is actually having a very paranoid reaction toward Obama, and I fear that the recent descent of the McCain campaign into unacceptable levels of hatred may be a result. Here are the incidents that concern me:

the Effects of Fear on Creativity

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:08:35 GMT

clipped by: bjkeltz

Clip Source: blogs.psychologytoday.com

It helps to think of yourself as playing at whatever you're doing. If it feels like work and nothing but work, maybe you're doing it wrong. Because you can't fail. You just try again, or you try something else, or you try in a different way.

Tags: fear, flow, creativity, susan perry, psychology today

Cuba's contribution to public health

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:39:13 GMT

clipped by: gingembre
clipper's remarks: If Cuba can do this, why can't the USA and Canada?

Clip Source: story.brazilsun.com

Cuba breaks national record with 200,000 medical students
Brazil Sun
Thursday 9th October, 2008
(IANS)

Cuba broke its record for domestic and foreign students studying medical sciences in the communist island country, with a total of 200,000 this year, the Communist Party daily Granma reported citing public health ministry sources.

Close to 23,000 of the students are foreigners, most of them coming from developing countries, Granma said, claiming that this is a result of the Cuban government's 'traditional policy of internationalistic solidarity.'

Cuba holds its free health system as a flagship government programme. At Cuban universities medical sciences include medicine, stomatology (study of mouth and its diseases), nursing, health technology and health psychology.

Cuba has four medical science institutes, 24 schools of medicine, four of stomatology and four devoted to nursing and technology, Granma said. More than 26,000 people teach medical science courses on the island.

Tags: cuba, medicine

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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:29:46 GMT

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Horse moms tend to be nicer to sons

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:05:47 GMT

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Horse moms tend to be nicer to sons

Mothers in overall poor condition, though, invested more in their daughters

Do mothers inherently favor sons over daughters? They do if the mom is healthy and she is a wild horse, according to a new study on literal horseplay, but researchers suggest the equine findings could carry over to other polygynous animals, including humans.

"Polygynous" refers to species with males that can mate with more than one individual over a relatively short period of time, with the pairings all possibly resulting in pregnancies.

"Mothers are advantaged differently by investing in sons or daughters in relation to their own condition and the future reproduction of their offspring," lead author Elissa Cameron told Discovery News.

Tags: horse, polygamus, male, offspring, psychology

Plunge in market brings another kind of depression

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:50:34 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Porter Ranch murder-suicide is an extreme example of the stresses gripping the American psyche, experts say. Mental health professionals say referrals have soared.

Karthik Rajaram, an unemployed financial advisor, left a suicide note saying that his financial state left him few options but to kill his wife, three children and mother-in-law. Los Angeles Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore described Rajaram, 45, as a man stuck in a rabbit hole of despair.

The tragic case of the Rajaram family is at the bleakest edge of the economic turmoil that is rattling Americans' emotional well-being. Worries about home foreclosures, job losses and plunging stock prices have sparked a surge in mental health problems.

What drove him over the edge to total despair is a mystery.

he believed he had no options,"

Rates of depression and suicide tend to rise during hard economic times

people often begin to isolate themselves

they sink into hopelessness.

Tags: economic stress

Angst is rising,but many must forgo therapy

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:26:40 GMT

clipped by: Tri-City Psychology

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

In the latest sign of the deepening economic crisis, more people are considering cutting back on their mental-health therapy, even as they become more stressed.

Across the country, psychiatrists and psychologists say they are seeing an increasing number of patients who are worried about paying for treatment. Some are reducing the amount of time they spend in therapy. Others are trying to negotiate a reduced fee

Help For Stressful Times

If you are suicidal or in crisis, call your therapist or a crisis hotline.
Do not reduce or stop taking your medication without your doctor's approval.
If you really can't afford your therapist's fee, ask for a reduced rate, based on what you can afford.
If your therapist cannot provide a reduced rate, ask for a referral.
A crisis hotline can help you find a therapist with a reduced feeor can steer you to community services.
Many pharmaceutical companies provide medications to people who cannot

Tags: economic crisis, wall street journal, mental health therapy

Conspiracy & Order: The psychological need for pattern

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:44:46 GMT

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People see false patterns in all types of data, imagining trends in stock markets, seeing faces in static, and detecting conspiracies between acquaintances. This suggests that lacking control leads to a visceral need for order – even imaginary order,

Clip Source: www.sciencefriday.com

New research indicates that in situations in which a person is not in control, they're more likely to spot patterns where none exist, see illusions, and believe in conspiracy theories. In a series of experiments, researchers created situations in which people had less control over their situation, and then tested how likely the participants were to see imaginary images embedded in snowy pictures. The researchers also had participants write about either a situation in which they had control, or a situation in which they didn't, and then presented stories involving strange coincidences. People who had written about a situation in which they were not in control were more likely to draw non-existent connections between the coincidences, the researchers found.

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Betrayal, forgiveness and money...

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:21:56 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Citizen Enforcers Take Aim

The public urge for punishment that helped delay the passage of Washington’s economic rescue plan is more than a simple case of Wall Street loathing

The fury is based in instincts that have had a protective and often stabilizing effect on communities throughout human history

recent research suggests that in individuals, the fairness instinct is a highly variable psychological impulse, rising and falling in response to what is happening in the world

hardens in times of crisis and uncertainty

From the point of view of evolution, it’s not a problem but a solution

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

psychologists demonstrated how easy it was to influence how often, or how intensely, people acted on such urges to punish.

Running thousands of computer variations of the investment game, scientists have found that the strategies that pay off the most are tipped toward cooperation.

most successful strategies is the simplest one: tit for tat

another, called firm but fair

forgiveness instinct

as wired

Tags: society, psychology, banks

Study: Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:50:44 GMT

clipped by: RayWatkins

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

A new University of Georgia study suggests that online social networking sites such as Facebook might be useful tools for detecting whether someone is a narcissist.

"We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others," said lead author Laura Buffardi, a doctoral student in psychology who co-authored the study with associate professor W. Keith Campbell.

The researchers, whose results appear in the October issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, gave personality questionnaires to nearly 130 Facebook users, analyzed the content of the pages and had untrained strangers view the pages and rate their impression of the owner's narcissism.

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Why being reminded of your own ignorance is a good thing

Admissions to mental wards for drugs and alcohol up a third

The number of patients admitted to mental health wards because of drug or alcohol abuse has risen by almost one third in three years, latest figures show.

Tri-City Psychology

Scientists adapt economics theory to trace brain's information flow

Risk and reward compete in brain

Think McCain may be a bit "off" - you may be right

the Effects of Fear on Creativity

Cuba's contribution to public health

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Horse moms tend to be nicer to sons

Horse moms tend to be nicer to sons

Mothers in overall poor condition, though, invested more in their daughters

Plunge in market brings another kind of depression

Father kills family and himself,...

Coping with tough times

Angst is rising,but many must forgo therapy

Help For Stressful Times

Conspiracy & Order: The psychological need for pattern

Betrayal, forgiveness and money...

Citizen Enforcers Take Aim

Study: Facebook profiles can be used to detect narcissism