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• in Technorati Women
  Study Focuses on Genetic Links to ADHD
  Medical research is shedding new light on the genetics associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  by jenna3967 / on Dec 6, 2011
• in Film
  The Living Ghost (1942) Is Frightful
  The Living Ghost…’eh, it’s not as scary as The Dead Ghost.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 18, 2011
• in Film
  Netflix Noir: I Wake Up Screaming (1941), Shock (1946), and Fear in the Night (1947)
  That dream you had last night…are you sure it was only a dream?
  by missbobetier / on Feb 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “psychiatry”

 

• Stuff – Therapy Tales #321

  
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  This one is almost a direct illustration for a stack of research papers I was reading on the role of the therapist in the room – and the essential impossibility of achieving anonymity/blank screen (and yes, some still try no matter what y’all say..). Firstly, there is still the physical person of the therapist ...
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• The Brain May Disassemble Itself in Sleep (preview)

  
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  Compared with the hustle and bustle of waking life, sleep looks dull and unworkmanlike. Except for in its dreams, a sleeping brain doesn’t misbehave or find a job. It also doesn’t love, scheme, aspire or really do much we would be proud to take credit for. Yet during those quiet hours when our mind is on hold, our ...
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• Body Image/Self Perception: Training Our Brains To See Ourselves In A More Attractive Light

  
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  Researchers at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology have designed a programme called Mirate bien (Take a good look at yourself). It is a tool designed to enable us to learn to love our bodies and faces; and to improve our physical self-concept. Initiatives of this kind are routinely applied at ...
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• Mental Health Drug Research Presented At Major Psychiatric Meeting Concentrates On Positive Results

  
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  When thousands of psychiatrists attend their fields largest annual meeting each year, the presentations they hear about research into drug treatments report overwhelmingly on positive results. Thats the finding of a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology by two young psychiatrists from the ...
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• Mind-Pops: Psychologists Begin to Study an Unusual form of Proustian Memory

  
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  Lia Kvavilashvili sat in her office at the University of Hertfordshire, mentally reviewing a study she had recently published. She knew that there was a particular statistical measure that might have been useful in the study, but she could not remember its name. Frustrated, she got up to make a cup of tea. [More]
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• Industry Slants Drug Benefits in Presentations to MDs

  
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  In an era of evidence-based clinical care, a new study finds that research presented to psychiatrists during their annual meeting is overwhelmingly biased on the positive contributions of new medications. At the same forum, cognitive-behavioral therapy receives less attention even though emerging evidence suggests ...
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• Climate Of Anger And Marital Disagreements

  
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  How good are married couples at recognizing each others emotions during conflicts? In general, pretty good, according to a study by a Baylor University researcher. But if your partner is angry, that might tell more about the overall climate of your marriage than about what your partner is feeling at the moment of the ...
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• Rethinking Stigma

  
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  The word "stigma" comes up again and again in the conversation about depression. The more that people can understand mental disorder as a biological phenomenon, the argument goes, the less they will suffer from stigma. The problem is it may be completely wrong. read more
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• Rethinking Stigma

  
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  In the conversation about depression, the word "stigma" comes up again and again. The more that people can understand mental disorder as a biological phenomenon, the argument goes, the less people with depression they will suffer from stigma. The problem is that this reasoning may be completely wrong. read more
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• The Mental Illness Taboo

  
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  Building on one of the eight modern cultural taboos discussed yesterday, I want to talk about the way our society views and deals with the issue of mental illness . There are two distinct aspects of this: 1) How we as individuals approach mental illness in our own lives. and 2) How we as a group approach ...
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• Queue – Therapy Tales #319

  
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  Well the British do like a queue.. so why not apply the principle to our public mental health services? Many thanks to a couple of my online MH consumer friends for the unintended and unrelated inspiration. MORE CARTOONS
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• Direct Brain Stimulation Decreases Hallucinations in Schizophrenia

  
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  Transcranial direct stimulation may help some patients with schizophrenia, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry . Although still considered an experimental therapy , direct brain stimulation (DBS) has been in practice for several years and has been tried out as a treatment for ...
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• New Tools for Psychological Science Research – Facebook and Smartphones

  
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  New Tools for Psychological Science Research – Facebook and Smartphones Whether you’re an iPerson who can’t live without a Mac, a Facebook addict, or a gamer, you know that social media and technology say things about your personality and thought processes. And psychological scientists know it too – ...
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• Diagnosing Childhood: Can We Do Better?

  
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  My first real experience in psychiatric research came in 1983 when I graduated from college and took a job as a research assistant. Psychiatry had recently undergone a sea change in how diagnoses were made. In 1980, DSM-III was published, and for the first time provided a set of criteria for a wide range of ...
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• Diagnosing Childhood: Can We Do Better?

  
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  My first real experience in psychiatric research came in 1983 when I graduated from college and took a job as a research assistant. Psychiatry had recently undergone a sea change in how diagnoses were made. In 1980, DSM-III was published, and for the first time provided a set of criteria for a wide range of ...
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• Skylab is Falling! Skylab is Falling!

  
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  Skylab was a satellite about the size of a small house. There came a time when it was falling out of orbit. It was known that it was going to crash on earth within a five hour period, but it was not known where on earth, literally, it was going to strike. It could be anywhere. read more
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• Skylab is Falling! Skylab is Falling!

  
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  Skylab was a satellite about the size of a small house. There came a time when it was falling out of orbit. It was known that it was going to crash on earth within a five hour period, but it was not known where on earth, literally, it was going to strike. It could be anywhere. read more
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• More DSM-5 changes: Facebook or Droid Addiction?

  
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  The APA Diagnostic DSM-5  which is dues out next year, is likely going to result in a boom industry in addictions treatments.  It may even mean there will be a mental health diagnosis to accompany your Droid or Facebook  addiction. The changes that are planned will generally relax the criteria to qualify ...
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• Ultrasound and Autism - a connection?

  
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  Could the increased use of ultrasound during pregnancy be implicated in the rise in autism? read more
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• Ultrasound and Autism—A Connection?

  
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  Could the increased use of ultrasound during pregnancy be implicated in the rise in autism? read more
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