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Understanding Dyslexia Online Course | Studying Teaching and Learning | Scoop.it - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 20 Oct 12
     
    This free ALISON online dyslexia course will be of great interest to all professionals in the areas of education, child development, and adult literacy who would like to learn more about the causes of and treatment for dyslexia, and to all learners who would like a greater understanding of this common condition. Understanding Dyslexia is originally from and published by OpenLearn and has a duration of 2-3 Hours for the average learner.
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Psychology Programs Online and On Campus: Overview | Psychology Matters | Scoop.it - 0 views

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    Want information about psychology programs online or on campus? This page will tell you about their content, where to locate suitable programs, the prospects, and more ...
Amira .

Memories are made of this. Kandel outlines how brains manage data, and are changed by i... - 0 views

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shared by Amira . on 10 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • “The brain is a creativity machine,” Columbia University neuroscientist Eric Kandel told his Harvard audience on Feb. 8. “We get incomplete information from the outside world, and we make a whole lot of things up. This is why the brain can be deceived so easily — because it’s guessing all the time.”
  • “If you remember anything about this lecture, it’s because genes in your brain will be altered,” said the Columbia University professor, who shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his studies on memory. “If you remember this tomorrow, or the next day, a week later, you will have a different brain than when you walked into this lecture.”
  • “Memory, as you know, makes us who we are,” Kandel said. “It’s the glue that binds our mental life together. Without the unifying force of memory, we would be broken into as many fragments as there are moments in the day.”
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  • “Long-term memory differs from short-term memory in requiring the synthesis of new proteins,” Kandel said, adding that there’s a high threshold for information to be entered into long-term memory. “Something really has to be important to be remembered,” he said. Long-term memory stimulates protein syntheses, Kandel said, by altering gene expression. While the genes themselves remain unchanged, their activity levels are tweaked by the molecules involved in the creation of long-term memory.
  • “Many of us are accustomed, naively, to thinking that genes are the determinants of our behavior,” he said. “We are not accustomed to thinking that genes are also the servants of the mind.” The genes affected, he said, lead the brain’s 100 billion neurons to grow new synapses, or connections with other neurons. A typical neuron, he said, connects to about 1,200 others. But neurons that are subject to repeated stimuli have been found to have much denser networks, with up to 2,800 synapses.
  • The brain is especially susceptible to forming such new connections early in life, he said, when its structure is highly malleable, or plastic. “This is why almost all great musicians, all great basketball players, all great anything, all get started very early in life,” Kandel said.
  • “There are a lot of cells up there,” he said. “Each one of them connects to 1,000 other cells, so you’ve got more synapses than there are stars in the universe. When you finish counting those stars in the universe, I will be ready for the connectome.”
Amira .

Mind - Past Adversity May Aid Emotional Recovery By Benedict Carey | NYTimes.com Jan 3,... - 0 views

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  • It is clear that with time, most people can and do psychologically recover from even devastating losses, like the death of a spouse; but reactions to the same blow vary widely, and no one can reliably predict who will move on quickly and who will lapse into longer-term despair.
  • The role of genes is likewise uncertain. In a paper published online Monday in The Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers at the University of Michigan who analyzed more than 50 studies concluded that variations in a single gene determine people’s susceptibility to depression following stressful events. But an earlier analysis, of fewer but similar studies, concluded that the evidence was not convincing. New research suggests that resilience may have at least as much to do with how often people have faced adversity in past as it does with who they are — their personality, their genes, for example — or what they’re facing now. That is, the number of life blows a person has taken may affect his or her mental toughness more than any other factor.
  • “Frequency makes a difference: that is the message,” said Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. “Each negative event a person faces leads to an attempt to cope, which forces people to learn about their own capabilities, about their support networks — to learn who their real friends are. That kind of learning, we think, is extremely valuable for subsequent coping,”
  • Amira . on 15 Jan 11
     
    It is clear that with time, most people can and do psychologically recover from even devastating losses, like the death of a spouse; but reactions to the same blow vary widely, and no one can reliably predict who will move on quickly and who will lapse into longer-term despair.
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On Death Row, Fate of Mentally Ill Is Thorny Problem - 1 views

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    By GARY FIELDS December 14, 2006; Page A1 On Death Row, Fate of Mentally Ill Is Thorny Problem http://online.wsj.com/article (for paid subscribers) NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- At 8:30 a.m., Gregory Thompson, his hands cuffed to his waist, has already swallowed eight of the 12 pills he takes a day.
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