World of Psychology

Archive for February, 2008

Can a Person Change their Brain Structure? Yes

Friday, February 29th, 2008
Excuse us while we do some spring cleaning around here and publish a few entries that have been sitting in our "draft" pile longer than I care to admit... In a bit of research done in ...

Friday Flashback for February 29, 2008

Friday, February 29th, 2008
While I'm down in Texas enjoying some sunshine and the ranch life, I'm happy to present to you some of the golden oldies from Psych Central's archives. Have a great weekend! 10 Years Ago on Psych ...

Communicating with the One You Love

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
All of us have our insecurities, and some of us have our secrets. Sometimes we share these with the ones we love, and sometimes we feel trapped, ashamed or simply unable to do so. Sometimes ...

Lessons From the Family Bathroom

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
We'd like to give a hat tip to the New York Times health blog, written by the intrepid Tara Parker-Pope, for her entry on our article published earlier this week by our resident expert, ...

LifeTip: Planning for Your Own Passing

Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Look, you might be 22 or 42, but there are some things you should think about even if you think it's premature or "I'll get to that later." While it's a morbid topic for some, ...

Forcing the Mentally Ill to Move in Greater Boston

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
There's no easy way to do this, but when a state wants to cut costs (and ostensibly "improve" treatment, although that remains to be seen) and close a sprawling old mental hospital, and move its ...

La récupération de mme. Trudeau

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Margaret Trudeau, Canada's lively and lovely former first lady turned bipolar advocate, talks about her recovery (récupération in French) process to stay balanced. "You need to develop a sense of forgiveness," she says. "Forgiving myself and ...

Antidepressant Data Showed Not as Effective as Thought

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Meta-analyses are great research tools, because they allow researchers to look at data across large sets of data published by multiple studies, and see if there are more powerful (or less powerful) effects that no ...

Coping with Existential Depression

Monday, February 25th, 2008
People and professionals often divide up depression into different types, such as "clinical" depression versus "non-clinical" depression, "biological" depression versus "situational" depression. The diagnostic manual professionals refer to, however, doesn't make any distinctions about theorizing ...

Mentally Ill Unfairly Portrayed as Violent

Monday, February 25th, 2008
As I've banged the drum previously here and here about the lack of a significant relationship between violence and mental illness, I was happy to read an editorial published in today's Boston ...

Eating Disorder Awareness 2008

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Eating disorders are usually thought of a teen issue, but increasingly men, adult women and girls as young as seven also suffer. They don't fit into the usual treatment programs designed for adolescent girls. ...

Mentally and Physically stimulating environments delay dementia

Sunday, February 24th, 2008
I’ve been reading a lot of articles in the past couple of years supporting mental exercises to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s. However, today I came across a study which states that physical ...

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