Brain And Behavior | World of Psychology

Bye Bye Asperger’s Syndrome?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Is the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome -- a mild form of autism mostly diagnosed in boys -- heading the way of the dodo bird? A new article ...

Read more... »

Group Therapy for Binge Eating

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Binge eating disorder is characterized by a person having frequent episodes of eating what others would consider an abnormally large amount of food, while ...

Read more... »

Introducing Weightless: A Blog About Body Image

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

You really can't help but be overwhelmed by the amount of focus these days on how a person looks. The people who are most harmed by this shallowness are women, especially young adults, as so ...

Read more... »

The Fear of Relapse: 5 Cognitive Tools

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

A reader recently wrote to me about her overwhelming fear of relapse. She said, "I'm struggling now with it, obsessing over it, and I'm ...

Read more... »

Depression, Lifestyle and Processed Food

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

We know that people who are depressed don't eat as well as people who don't have depression. So not ...

Read more... »

5 Ways to Tackle Perfectionism

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

This week I have the pleasure of interviewing Michelle Russell, who writes the fantastic blog, "Practice Makes Imperfect." Since we talk about perfectionism a lot on Beyond ...

Read more... »

Design Can Encourage Greater Self-Disclosure

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Every day, our behavior is directly influenced by a number of factors, some of which we may not even ...

Read more... »

Oprah: The 7 Year Old With Schizophrenia

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

On October 6, 2009, the popular television show Oprah aired a program about a 7 ...

Read more... »

5 Emotional Vampires and How to Combat Them

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

...

Read more... »

Behavioral Economics: This Is Your Brain On Money

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that with recession-related anxiety saturating the very air we breathe, we might be a bit slow to trust our financial decisions. For ...

Read more... »

Why Sleeping On It Helps

Monday, October 26th, 2009

We're often told, "You should sleep on it" before you make an important decision. Why is that? How does "sleeping on it" help your decision-making ...

Read more... »