Psych Central Week in Review Video #3
Happy Saturday! Welcome to the weekend. Time to kick back, relax, and let the workweek stress just melt away. (Wouldn’t it be nice if we could melt stress away on command?)
If you had a busy week, you probably missed out a few of Psych Central’s most interesting news stories. But, do not fear: I’ve summarized three of our top brain, tech, and workplace news stories in this week’s “Week in Review” video podcast. In this episode, we answer the following questions:
- How do metaphors affect your brain?
- Can a Smartphone determine when you’re depressed?
- What causes a loss of $225.8 billion per year in the US alone?
Check out our latest video podcast below for the answers:


We usually think of psychologists as seeing clients, conducting research, teaching at universities or holding high administrative positions.
Many people would love to work from home. You can wake up whenever you want. You can spend the day in your PJs. You can work from the couch. And your schedule can be as wide open as you like.
The unemployment rate today has skyrocketed to approximately 10% and is forecast to stay above 9.5 percent for the rest of 2011. For the first time in American history, more women are working than men because close to 80 percent of the people laid off in the recent recession were men.
Creativity is essential for any profession (whether you’re working for yourself or someone else) or even pastime (perhaps with the exception of TV-watching). It’s a major contributor to one’s success. But sometimes people simply get stumped. The ideas stop flowing, and the well becomes empty. For most of us, a creative drought isn’t just frustrating, it’s demoralizing.
With the economy going nowhere fast in the U.S., more and more unemployed workers are looking toward endless unemployment with little hope for their future.
Eleanor Concepcion “Connie” Mariano has quite an impressive resume — even for a doctor. Not only was Dr. Mariano — or, Dr. Connie, as she’s more intimately known by a few — the first Filipino-American to become a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, but she was also the first American woman to be appointed the Director of the White House Medical Unit.
Thank goodness the Wall Street Journal isn’t known for its outstanding health reporting.
Idiots.