Brain = Computer? No, according to new study
The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. Instead, the mind should be thought of more as working the way biological organisms […]

Teen Mental Health Declining in the United States
Adolescents in the United States are more likely to suffer from a mental health disorder than ever before, but getting these teens diagnosed and cared for is a challenge that is not being met, a new book warns.
These findings are detailed in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health […]

Call for abstracts and a current abstract list is available on the website of the 3rd International Conference on Psychophysiology of Panic Attacks, being held in Philadelphia, PA on October 15-16, 2005.

Study: Dads can suffer postnatal depression too
Although it occurs most often in mothers, fathers can also suffer postnatal depression and it can influence their children’s early behavior, British researchers said on Friday. Baby boys seem to be particularly affected by depressed dads and have twice as many behavioral problems in their early years as other […]

Patients’ Diversity Is Often Discounted
When UCLA researchers reviewed the best available studies of psychiatric drugs for depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and attention deficit disorder, they found that the trials had involved 9,327 patients over the years. When the team looked to see how many patients were Native Americans, the answer was . . .
Zero.
“I don’t […]

Back on June 11, 2005, New Scientist let us know about this amazing scientific breakthrough:

Genes blamed for fickle female orgasm
Only 14 per cent of the women reported always experiencing orgasm during intercourse. Another 32 per cent of the women reported that they were unable to achieve orgasm more than a quarter of the time, while […]

I can’t believe summer is here, and June is almost gone. The time flies!!! It flies, I tell you, flaps its wings and swoops over my head and out the window. Almost as if it had wings made of fire.
It’s Friday afternoon, I must be getting punchy. Yay weekend!

Combination of diabetes, depression ups death risk
The combination of diabetes and depression increases a person’s risk of dying early, beyond that linked to either condition alone, a new study suggests.
The implication, according to researchers, is that patients with diabetes should be routinely screened for depression.
They found that among more than 10,000 U.S. adults in a […]

This is a lesson in creating valid scientific instruments that actually measure something, rather than providing pretty numbers that purport to measure something. Infoworld is one of a number of weekly IT magazines that is distributed freely to IT professionals working in the IT world. Some cynics would argue that these types of periodicals are […]

Electronic connectivity isn’t all that great, warns computer guru at NJIT talk
“Although sophisticated electronics gadgets are making the world appear smaller, distance should not die,” said computer guru Darl Kolb earlier this week at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Kolb, a visiting professor from the University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand, championed redefining […]

Multitasking: You can’t pay full attention to both sights and sounds
The reason talking on a cell phone makes drivers less safe may be that the brain can’t simultaneously give full attention to both the visual task of driving and the auditory task of listening, a study by a Johns Hopkins University psychologist suggests.
The study, published […]

How do I love thee? Which of the nine ways?
UK researchers in the British Journal of Social Psychology in early June claimed to have identified nine varieties of love. Only 9? It sounds all so scientific (after all, it was published in a journal!). But dig a little deeper and you see the study had […]