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Anxiety & stress
- Genes, environment and stress
- How ketamine relieves depression
- Fear can literally curdle your blood
Autism
- Sensory integration therapy helpful for children with autistic spectrum disorders
- Facial recognition: it's in your eyes
Body language: Talking to yourself
- Folding your arms can help you persevere
Decision-making
- Making choices is mentally exhausting
- The roads not taken
Depression
- How serotonin can cause depression and anxiety
- Can low energy production be responsible for the physical symptoms in depression?
- The conflict of reward in depression
Domestic violence
- Men's mental health affected by domestic violence
Eating disorders
- Night-eating disorder deserves wider recognition
- Body image programme reduces onset of obesity and eating disorders
Group dynamics
- Good ideas can prevent groups from generating great ideas
- Working alone is better for productivity
- Not such a selfish species after all
- Cooperate or compete—which would we choose
- Low-power positions can hinder people from getting ahead
Learning difficulties
- Separation from parents can cause learning difficulties in children
Neuroscience
- First peek at the human brainstem
- New receptor complex identified in the brain
- Brain network linked to contemplation
Personality & emotions
- Dominance represented in vertical terms
- Happiness: having what you want, or wanting what you have?
- Subliminal emotions
Psychotherapy
- Couple Power Therapy: commit first, communicate later
- Transference more pronounced when we are tired
- Structured writing therapy a promising alternative treatment for stress disorders
- Family-based CBT can help young children with OCD
- Internet and group CBT for minor depression benefits those with an agreeable personality
- Length of psychodynamic therapy predicts long-term outcomes
Schizophrenia
- Award for schizophrenia research
Sleep disorders
- Sleep deprived people suffer ―power failures
Substance abuse
- Brain imaging shows how alcohol decreases brain sensitivity to threats
- Computer-assisted CBT helps addicts stay clean for longer
The psychology of economics
- "Phantasie" should form part of economic models—Psychoanalysing the stock market
- Testosterone levels could predict stock market success
Psychlits: on the psych radar
- Severe stress raises schizophrenia risk in early pregnancy
- Why teenagers get hooked more easily, and find it harder to quit
- 20 minutes per week of physical activity boosts mental health
- The role of spirituality and meaning in severe depression
- Hope for SAD patients in discovery that eye processes light differently from sight
- Making friends randomly
- Migraine and temperament linked to handedness in major affective disorder
- Migraine associated with psychiatry disorders
- New evidence for a schizoaffective spectrum of disorders
- Preschool children should be encouraged to talk to themselves
- Three age-of-onset subgroups in bipolar I disorder identified
- Early childhood separation from mother increases risk of schizophrenia symptoms in later life
Psych–pointers ... to relevant articles
- Influence through ignorance
- Theory-of-mind as a unifying construct
- On the hazards of being a stranger to oneself
- REBT with children and adolescents in educational settings
Drugs & Medication
- Neupro recommended for approval for restless legs syndrome: European Medicines Agency
- FDA approves Seroquel for maintenance treatment in Bipolar Disorder
- Dimebon improves thinking and memory in Alzheimer's patients
Alternative & complementary therapies
- Green tea ameliorates brain deficits related to sleep apnea
Books & Publications
Videos
Conferences & Events
