AddictionFeb 5, 2021
Is Addiction a Disease?
Addiction is a condition that has long baffled physicians and philosophers, to say nothing of those struggling with it and those ...
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AddictionFeb 4, 2021
Causes of Addiction
There are many theories about the causes of addiction, the use and abuse of legal and illegal psychoactive substances. Biology ...
Trauma and stressFeb 3, 2021
America Needs a Psychologist-in-Chief
"We are all much more simply human than otherwise, be we happy and successful, contented and detached, miserable and mentally ...
TraumaFeb 3, 2021
How to heal the 'mass trauma' of Covid-19
When the pandemic is over, how should we process the memories of what happened? Ed Prideaux discovers counter-intuitive answers ...
NeuropsychologyFeb 2, 2021
MRes Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. The ...
TraumaJan 31, 2021
Trauma-informed approaches to primary and community mental health care: protocol for a mixed-methods systematic review
Introduction Exposure to different types of psychological trauma may lead to a range of adverse effects on trauma survivors ...
AddictionJan 30, 2021
Gambling addiction experts see familiar aspects in Robinhood app
While the broader public may have gotten its first glimpse this week of the troubling and addictive nature of trading apps like ...
Cognitive PsychologyJan 29, 2021
Pandemonium’s friendly demons
Oliver Selfridge was an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and in 1959 wrote a classic paper outlining a system by which simple units, each carrying out a specialised function, could be connected together to…
Diversity & CultureJan 29, 2021
Recognizing Implicit Bias To Promote Diversity And Support A Culture Of Inclusion And Innovation
The goal of any business should be to hire the most qualified person for every job role. Regardless of a person’s age, race ...
Sensory-processing concernsJan 28, 2021
Why Sensory vs. Behavioral Is Not Actually a Thing
A few days ago, a client asked me a question I've heard at least once a week for the past year. Her three-year-old daughter, who ...
Withdrawal supportJan 28, 2021
Online Antidepressant Withdrawal Support Groups
I stress, first, that it is unwise to make decisions about coming off, reducing, or staying on medication on the basis of one ...
Health PsychologyJan 27, 2021
Can large fluid-filled spaces in the brain help identify those at risk of dementia?
People with enlarged fluid-filled spaces in the brain around small blood vessels may be more likely to develop cognitive problems and dementia over time than people without these enlarged spaces, according to a new…
Child PsychologyJan 27, 2021
Detecting ADHD with near perfect accuracy
A new study has identified how specific communication among different brain regions, known as brain connectivity, can serve as a biomarker for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
HIPAA & PrivacyJan 26, 2021
Notice of Privacy Practices (HIPAA)
This Notice of Privacy Practices explains how St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, its medical staff members, employees ...
NeuropsychologyJan 26, 2021
Domino effects and synchrony in seizure initiation
In a brain with a neurological disorder like epilepsy, synchronization between groups of neurons can grow to a dangerous extent when a collection of brain cells begins to emit excess electricity. Researchers used a…
Clinical PsychologyJan 24, 2021
Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association
As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as good at treating the person.
Clinical PsychologyJan 24, 2021
Innovations in Psychopharmacology Education in U.S. Psychiatric Residency Programs.
Medications available to treat psychiatric illnesses continue to increase, in conjunction with a shifting of outpatient ...
Seeking SafetyJan 22, 2021
Why Some People Don’t Seek Mental Health Services
Many of us know someone who is depressed or anxious yet reluctant to seek professional help. While every case is unique, a new ...
TraumaJan 21, 2021
Addressing Trauma as a Pathway to Social Change
In the 1860s, American abolitionist Frederick Douglass noted that people invested in social change “endeavor to remove the ...
HIPAA & PrivacyJan 20, 2021
Transforming Mental Health And Addiction Services
Even with great advances in behavioral health policy in the last decade, the problems of mental illness and addiction persist in ...
AI & TechnologyJan 16, 2021
Teletherapy reaches people in need at home
Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the ...
NeuropsychologyJan 11, 2021
Elusive link between seizures, cell signaling protein ID'd in zebrafish
A team of scientists has identified a new link between seizures and connexin 36 deficiency. The discovery found that this interaction may make the brain more prone to having seizures.
Cognitive PsychologyJan 10, 2021
What Is Consciousness?
Consciousness is what allows you to think, remember, and feel things. The term can refer to someone's actual experience of the ...
NeuropsychologyJan 7, 2021
Functional seizures associated with stroke, psychiatric disorders
In a large-scale study of electronic health records investigators determined the prevalence of functional seizures and characterized comorbidities associated with them. Functional seizures are sudden attacks or spasms…
Desire and arousal concernsJan 1, 2021
Sexual Arousal Is Not a Reliable Sign of Sexual Desire
Good sex is sex that is desired. It may thus seem intuitive that sexual arousal and orgasm will be facilitated by high mutual ...
Child PsychologyDec 30, 2020
A pursuit of better testing to sort out the complexities of ADHD
The introduction of computer simulation to the identification of symptoms in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has potential to provide an additional objective tool to gauge the presence and…
FibromyalgiaDec 28, 2020
Coping With Fibromyalgia
Widespread muscle pain and tenderness is the hallmark symptom of Fibromyalgia. The pain can vary in intensity and at times can be ...
Clinical PsychologyDec 27, 2020
History of Psychotherapy: Continuity and Change
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AddictionDec 23, 2020
AI-designed serotonin sensor may help scientists study sleep and mental health
Researchers have described how they used advanced genetic engineering techniques to transform a bacterial protein into a new research tool that may help monitor serotonin transmission with greater fidelity than current…
AddictionDec 18, 2020
CAPTUREing Whole-Body 3D movements
Neuroscientists have made major advances in their quest to study the brain; however, there are no tools to precisely measure the brain's principal output -- behavior -- in freely moving animals. Researchers present…