Yearly Archive for 2012
Therapeutic Analysis of Dreams – A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
The two activities that we spend a third of our lives doing are sleep and dreaming. Everyone dreams, but only 1 in 3 of us recalls dreams consistently. Dreams account for about 20% of the time sleeping. Most persons enter and exit dreaming approximately four to give times per night with about 90 minutes between cycles. They last from 10 to 25 minutes with increasing duration as sleep unfolds. Decreased sleep latency, the time to actually fall asleep, is strongly associated with clinical depression. Psychoactive and psychotropic substances and medications are known to alter sleep and dream architecture.
Small Groups Make Women Stupid
Ladies, do you ever feel less than intellectually adequate when you sit in a business meeting or attend a cocktail party? According to a new study, you might be right. Small groups reduce IQ performance, according to the researchers, especially in women.
Psychotherapy and Clinical Boundaries
Many forms of psychotherapy are known to be quite efficacious in the treatment of a variety of clinical disorders. Several pooled analyses indicate that 75 to 80% of psychotherapy patients have a positive response. Prochaska and Norcross indicate that there are four indicators that account for much of the positive impact: 1) clients realize that have more choices; 2) they have an opportunity to experiment, as a result, they are capable of changing their feelings, thoughts, and behaviors; 3) psychotherapy is cathartic; and, 4) enhanced awareness. Further, the therapeutic alliance along with specific client factors, accounts for 85% of the positive impact in psychotherapy.
The Brain’s Buying Power
Some television commercials and advertising campaigns just seem to stick in your head. (Many people can still sing jingles that appeared in ads decades ago.) Marketing gurus might have considered these powerful, long-lasting ads pure luck, stumbled upon after months of ineffective campaigns. But, now, marketing professionals are using science to shape advertising. The application of neuroscience technology to the field of marketing has garnered considerable controversy, but also considerable traction, and the use of so-called “neuromarketing” will likely increase in the coming years, according to industry experts.
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Future Posts
- Drug-Induced Mystical Experience
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Latest Posts
- Therapeutic Analysis of Dreams – A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
- Small Groups Make Women Stupid
- Psychotherapy and Clinical Boundaries
- The Brain’s Buying Power
- Aging Intelligently
- A Nicotine Patch a Day Keeps the Cognitive Impairment Away
- The Many Emerging Roles of Astrocytes
- Diabetes Impairs Cognition
- Media Violence Leads to Real Violence
- Intelligence – Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
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