Archive for January, 2012

Ritalin Gone Wrong

Sunday, January 29th, 2012






 

Click Here to Read:  Ritalin Gone Wrong By L. Alan Sroufe in the New York Times on  January 28, 2012.

Dangerous Method: on the set of David Cronenberg’s new film

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Click Here to Read:  A Dangerous Method: on the set of David Cronenberg’s new film By David Gritten on the  on the Tlegraph.UK website on January 28, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Jung Love: Sabina Spielrein, a forgotten pioneer of psychoanalysis By Nisha Lilia Diu
On the Telegraph.uk website  August 28,  2011.

Click Here to Read:  Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.

 

The Peripatetic Psychoanalyst By Chuck Fisher

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Click Here to Read: South Africa Letter from Chuck Fisher on this website.

Click Here to Read: The Peregrinating Psychoanalyst (Try Repeating): Chuck and Leah Fisher now in Argentina on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Psychoanalyst III: Perchance to Dream on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Continues: Rio Favelas: the Analyst, the Dance and the AK47?s by Chuck Fisher on this website.

Click Here to Read: Peripatetic Psychoanalyst (Almost) Dances in Ghana by Chuck Fisher on this website.

Executive Editor position available at the International Journal of Psychoanalysis

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

 

 Click Here to Read: Executive Editor position available at the International Journal of Psychoanalysis on the guardian jobs website.

Behavioral priming paradigm needs update

Sunday, January 29th, 2012


Behavioral priming, in which behavior is changed by introducing subconscious influences, is a well-established phenomenon, but a new study shows that the cause may be different than what was previously assumed.

In schizophrenia research, a path to the brain through the nose

Sunday, January 29th, 2012


A significant obstacle to progress in understanding psychiatric disorders is the difficulty in obtaining living brain tissue for study so that disease processes can be studied directly. Recent advances in basic cellular neuroscience now suggest that, for some purposes, cultured neural stem cells may be studied in order to research psychiatric disease mechanisms. But where can one obtain these cells outside of the brain?

Taking another look at the roots of social psychology

Sunday, January 29th, 2012


Psychology textbooks have made the same historical mistake over and over. Now the inaccuracy is pointed out in a new article published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Notion in Motion: Wireless Sensors Monitor Brain Waves on the Fly

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

Click Here to Read: Notion in Motion: Wireless Sensors Monitor Brain Waves on the Fly By Amber Dance in the Scientific American on January 27, 2012.

.“TIP OF THE ICEBERG”: NeuroSky, Inc.’s brain-computer interface shown here just scratches the surface of what is possible thanks to advances in mobile electroencephalographic brain-wave detection technology, says University of California, San Diego’s Scott Makeig.

Being ignored hurts, even by a stranger

Saturday, January 28th, 2012


Feeling like you're part of the gang is crucial to the human experience. All people get stressed out when we're left out. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that a feeling of inclusion can come from something as simple as eye contact from a stranger.

Research reveals power of the subconscious in human fear

Saturday, January 28th, 2012


The human subconscious has a bigger impact than previously thought on how we respond to danger, according to research led by the University of Exeter. This new study shows that our primitive response to fear can contradict our conscious assessment of danger.