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Study Bolsters Link Between Routine Hits to Head and Long-Term Brain Disease - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The growing evidence of a link between head trauma and long-term, degenerative brain disease was amplified in an extensive study of athletes, military veterans and others who absorbed repeated hits to the head, according to new findings published in the scientific journal Brain.
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Africa For Norway - New charity single out now! - YouTube - 0 views

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    Great for schema theory
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Gamification: Is it game over? - 0 views

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Gamification technology psychology

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    Taking the rules of video games and applying them to everyday life was billed as the next big thing, something that would transform everything from dull office work to how we exercise. But can it really work?
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Evolved Foraging underlies sex differences in shopping - 0 views

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    This study documents that men and women experience and perform consumer shopping differently, and in ways consistent with adaptations to the sexually dimorphic foraging strategies utilized during recent human evol
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BBC - Future - How fake images change our memory and behaviour - 0 views

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    Doctored images can affect what we eat, how we vote and even our childhood recollections. The question scientists are asking is why there's nothing we can do to stop it.
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Controversial Surgery for Addiction Burns Away Brain's Pleasure Center | TIME.com - 0 views

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    How far should doctors go in attempting to cure addiction? In China, some physicians are taking the most extreme measures. By destroying parts of the brain's "pleasure centers" in heroin addicts and alcoholics, these neurosurgeons hope to stop drug cravings. But damaging the brain region involved in addictive desires risks permanently ending the entire spectrum of natural longings and emotions, including the ability to feel joy.
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Pretend play may not drive child development as much as once thought - 0 views

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    Using only the power of their imaginations, children can transform a box into a boat, or a living room into a peril-fraught jungle. But while many famous theorists, including Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, have posited that pretending fuels children's intellectual and creative development, that may not be the case, suggests University of Virginia psychology professor Angeline Lillard, PhD, online in Psychological Bulletin.
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Nancy Lublin: Texting that saves lives | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking - they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy 'can reduce depression' - 0 views

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    Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can reduce symptoms of depression in people who fail to respond to drug treatment, says a study in the Lancet.
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BBC - Future - Psychology - 0 views

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psychology general resources

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    A great source of current research in psychology
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Dementia patients in Dutch village given 'alternative reality' - 0 views

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    A dementia care home in the Netherlands is experimenting with a new way of treating patients by offering them an "alternative reality".
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Kinder children are more popular - 0 views

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psychology relationships Empathy

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    Performing deliberate acts of kindness makes pre-teen children more popular with their peers, say scientists.
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Understanding the Effects of Social Environment on Trauma Victims - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Psychological trauma dims tens of millions of lives around the world and helps create costs of at least $42 billion a year in the United States alone. But what is trauma, exactly?
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Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
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    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
John Crane

Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? - 0 views

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psychology CLOA motivation work Ariely emotion

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    What motivates us to work? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it isn't just money. But it's not exactly joy either. It seems that most of us thrive by making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely presents two eye-opening experiments that reveal our unexpected and nuanced attitudes toward meaning in our work.
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The Human Spark . Alan Alda | PBS - 0 views

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    Complete series
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Eating disorders: New solutions - 1 views

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    Psychologists are developing promising new treatments and conducting novel research to combat eating disorders.
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