Technology Articles
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- Texting, Sexting… What’s Next?
A mother with her three teenage daughters sat in my office the other day. Two of the girls were there for sick ...
- The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct
Among the definitions of the noun compass, one from Merriam-Webster is "any of various nonmagnetic devices that indicate direction." This is the type of compass you will discover in Francis P. Cholle's first book, The ...
- Does Facebook Help Students Adapt to College?
Recent psychological research suggests that social networking can help university students feel supported in their first few weeks at school. Investigating the possibility, ...
- Is Using Technology To Treat OCD a Good Idea?
For people who are suffering for any reason, the Internet can offer ready-made support. Those with OCD, for ...
- 7 Ways Successful Entrepreneurs Stay Productive and Overcome Pitfalls
Last month, we spoke with five incredibly successful bloggers and entrepreneurs who shared their secrets to getting ...
- Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals About Our Everyday Deceptions
There are literally thousands upon thousands of books about magic—on its history, secrets, teachings, traditions, and rules—but to the extent of the authors’, and this reviewer’s, knowledge, Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic ...
- Is Technology Running Your Life? Set Some Boundaries
I am not very good at separating my work from my life, partially because my work is a big ...
- Schizophrenia and Genetics: Research Update
Fortunately, we’ve come a long way since the theory that less-than-affectionate mothers cause schizophrenia. Today, it’s widely accepted that a complex interplay ...
- 10 Tips for Setting Boundaries Online
Good boundaries are important for healthy relationships, but when it comes to our online lives, we rarely think to ...
- Future Babble
At the end of the movie Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown says to Marty and his girlfriend “Your futures haven’t been written yet; no one's has; so make it a good one”. ...
- Tips for Keeping a Parent Emotionally Connected while Geographically Apart
The 2006 Census reported that 3.6 million married Americans were not living with their spouses. ...
- The Use of Technology in Mental Health: Applications, Ethics and Practice
A growing number of people have lived with the Internet all their lives, with concomitant increase in the use of new communications technologies in therapy and in training mental health practitioners. Editors Kate Anthony, DeeAnna ...
- Is Anxiety Over Cell Phone Towers Justified?
From the beginning of mobile communications, concerns have been voiced over human exposure to electric and magnetic fields from the cell phone ...
- Motivational Strategies for Children with ADHD
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can have problems getting work done. For example, kids with predominantly inattentive ADHD or combined type ADHD have difficulty sustaining their attention during a task, do not always ...
- Teens and Internet Pornography
What should parents do when they discover that their young teen or preteen has been looking at pornography sites online? And what does it mean?
Based on a survey of online victimization conducted by the ...
- Cyberbullying and Teen Suicide
The headline took my breath away. In a town close to mine, a 15-year-old had committed suicide due to cyberbullying. Described as a charming and well-liked young girl, she nonetheless crumbled when targeted ...
- What’s the Matter with Kids Today?
The word of the year seems to be “entitled.” Get a group of older adults together and you’ll hear a fair amount of grumbling about the self-centeredness and selfishness of the 20- and 30-somethings. They’re ...
- Facebook: Enough Already!
I have now heard it said by a few different people: Facebook is over. The social networking tool that the world fell in love with has become so thoroughly embraced that it is ...
- Psych Central’s Online Resources Review Guidelines
We've been indexing and reviewing online resources since 1992, beginning with Internet newsgroups in psychology and support topics (like support groups for depression). In 1995, we expanded my efforts to include websites and in 1996, ...
- Evaluating the Quality of Mental Health Websites
Since the advent of the Web in the early 1990s, tens of thousands of consumer-oriented mental health Web sites have been created. Over 12 million results come up in the Google search engine when searching ...
- Neurofeedback Training for Your Brain
Neurofeedback is a relatively new biofeedback technique that focuses on helping a person train themselves to directly affect brain function. Although it sounds like science-fiction in nature, it's actually a reputable and scientifically-proven technique practiced ...
- My Genes Made Me Do It
Americans are increasingly likely to attribute their own — and others' — behavior to innate biological causes. At best that may relieve guilt about behavior we want to change but can't. The quest for genetic ...
- Types of Brain Imaging Techniques
Brain imaging techniques allow doctors and researchers to view activity or problems within the human brain, without invasive neurosurgery. There are a number of accepted, safe imaging techniques in use today in research facilities and ...
- What is Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)?
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, is a technique for measuring brain activity. It works by detecting the changes in blood oxygenation and flow that occur in response to neural activity – when a brain ...
- Coping with Video Game Addiction
While it has long been suspected that video games can cause problems in a person's life if they play them for too long, too often, more recent research confirms that video games do have ...
