Articles Tagged ‘psychology’
Psychiatry & Psychology | By May 24, 2008 | By Jared Tanner, MS | 7 Comments
Neuroscience: Psychotherapy’s Executioner?
Within the field of psychology more and more research is based on the functioning of the brain. Even in fields such as social psychology, which traditionally was opposed to looking at the relationship between brain and behavior, is neuroscience growing. More and more psychological disorders are being explained in relation to neurological function or dysfunction. Depression is caused by too few or too many neurotransmitters. Schizophrenia is caused by a “mis-wired” brain. Anxiety is caused by a hyper-reactive sympathetic nervous system (and possibly an abnormal amygdala). We are overweight because of hypothalamic problems and can’t sleep because our reticular activating systems are out of whack. Read more →
- Encephalon, Forthy-Third Edition
- The Top Ten Secrets in the Mental Health Field, Part I
- Can You Teach the Pursuit of Happiness Online?
- Shazeda Khan Appointed New Editor of Brain Blogger
- Brain Imaging Techniques or Technocolor Phrenology
We at Brain Blogger are honored to the host the Encephalon for the our second time. Since 2006, this blog carnival has inspired countless discussions on matters related to the brain and mind — and everything in between. In this edition, I review just a few quality blog entries worth checking out.... Read more →
Starting today, I’m going to maintain a list of the ten biggest secrets in the Mental Health field. I humbly request that anyone who feels something is missing (or should be elevated or demoted), please post your opinion. If you have time, please give the rationale. I’ll be writing about... Read more →
William McDougall, Harvard social psychologist, wrote that people can be happy while in pain and unhappy while experiencing pleasure. While the philosophical and semantic ramifications of the term “happiness” are still far away from being well-defined on a universal basis, it is generally... Read more →
To our readers: As a new editor and as an activist for public awareness, I shall be promoting knowledge in this field to its fullest extent for all to enjoy. Currently, I am studying psychology at Baruch College in New York City. Psychology has long been an area of passionate intrigue for me; with its... Read more →
Brain imaging techniques are increasingly being utilized to investigate cognition. This branch of research is referred to as cognitive neuroscience. Some have suggested that these techniques run the danger of simply emerging as “techno-color phrenology”, where no insights are actually gained... Read more →
Saturday, July 5, 2008
- The Anti-Psychiatry Movement
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Should Doctors Have Guns?
- Extremist Muslim Doctors Do More Than Heal
- Woman Comparable to Men in Domestic Violence: Stereotypes and their Consequences
- The Bipolar Trend
- The Biopsychosocial Model of Health & Illness
- Unhinging from Theory: Autism and Opinions
- The Implications of Implanted Chips
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn't Mess Around
- Meditation for Troubled Minds: Can the Mind Heal the Mind?
- Encephalon, Thirty-Third Edition
- Mind-Body: We Want Evidence, Don't We?
- Usually It's Cheaper to Pay Than to Go To Court
- God And Religion: Is It All In Our Heads?
- Integrating Schizophrenia Management
- Is War A Psychosis?
- Encephalon, Forthy-Third Edition
- Acknowledging Vaccination Concerns
- Staying the Course Prescribed for Major Depressive and Bipolar Disorders: A Family's Journey Thus Far
- Ethical Obligations of Health Care Workers During a Pandemic
- Treating Psychiatric Disorders - Something Smells Fishy
- Going Beyond Informed Consent
- Anti-Smoking Campaign Doesn’t Mess Around
- Vaccines - A Two-Edged Sword
- Prescriptive Authority - Are Pharmacists “Write”?
- Should Patients with Schizophrenia Receive Free Medication?
- Should Doctors Unionize?
- Blood Glucose and the Brain: Sugar and Short-Term Memory
- Should Doctors be Paid by Drug Companies for Research?
- How Do We Feed Our Children?
- Ethics 101 - Patients Who Hide The Truth
- Food Additives, Hyperactivity, and Common Sense
- Concierge Medicine - The Future or the Past?
- Brain Blogging, Thirty-Fifth Edition
- Are Placebos A Betrayal?
- New Technology for Intracranial Aneurysms
- Stem Cell Research - Man vs. God
- Using Infrared Light to Diagnosis Alzheimer’s
- Mozart, MD - Music for the Mind and Body
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