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Alzheimer‘s disease
- Alzheimer‘s symptoms reversed within minutes—human study
Anxiety & Stress
- APA: Stress a major health problem in the USA
- Mental health in South Africa
- Women more sensitive to the effects of stress than men—recent research round-up
- Floating effective for stress and pain
Depression
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation effective in treating major depression
Forensic psychology
- Can psychologists teach jurors anything?
Loneliness
- Loneliness affects our genes
- People create people to keep them company
- Consumer behaviour
Memory & imagination
- "Seeing" the future in the past
- Lack of imagination in older adults linked to declining memory
Psychometrics
- Self-report measures of anxiety may not be suitable for older adults
Psychotherapy
- 60 per cent of psychodynamic clients felt that therapy did not end on time
Sexual disorders
- Sexual dysfunction: exceptional opportunities for treatment
- The practice of mindfulness enhances patient treatment and outcomes
(Un)Ethical behaviour
- Shock treatment may continue at special education school
Willpower
- Indulge your chocolate cravings—resistance is futile
Focus on ...
... Parental alienation syndrome
- Challenges professionals face in treating Parental Alienation Syndrome
... Parapsychology, superstition and belief
- fMRI can distinguish between belief, disbelief and uncertainty
- First out-of-body experience induced in laboratory setting
- Using neuroimaging to study ES
- Experimenters may have influenced participants in the ganzfeld parapsychology experiments
- What do the ganzfeld experiments prove?
- Why do sceptics always report negative results? Investigating the 'sense of being stared at'
- A biological basis for superstition?
- Belief in the Tooth Fairy can create false memories
- Synchronicity and archetypes in paranormal experiences
Psychlits: on the psych radar
- Bright children become enlightened adults
- Children of lesbian couples are doing well
- Cocaine abuse blunts sensitivity to monetary rewards
Psych-pointers ... to relevant articles
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy: a systematic review of techniques, indications and empirical evidence
- Psychodynamic psychotherapy for social phobia: A treatment manual based on supportive–expressive therapy
Drugs & Medication
- APA warns against corporate funding and conflicts of interest
- Duloxetine does not relieve painful physical symptoms in depression
- Cymbalta promotion misleading—FDA
Conference & Events
