Download PsychDigest 200808 Vol 2 no 5
ADHD
- Biofeedback may help improve concentration
Alzheimer's disease & dementia
- High levels of calcium in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease
- Immune-based approach results in rapid improvement in verbal ability
- Hypnosis slows down the symptoms of dementia
Anxiety & stress
- The mind-body effect: Relaxation can influence genes associated with stress
- Traumatic response to events can be minimized
- Oxytocin can inhibit the symptoms of social anxiety disorder
- Genes can predispose people to anxiety
Autism spectrum disorders
- Social difficulties in autism due to disrupted communication networks in brain
Decision-making
- Sleeping on it does not lead to better decisions
Depression
- Deep brain stimulation continues to show promise in treatment-resistant depression
- Cause of postpartum depression may have been found
- Brain circuitry keeps depression patients vulnerable to relapse
Developmental psychology
- How babies understand the world around them and their place in it
- Children's ability to plan for the future
Educational psychology
- Reading ability predicted by sensitivity to speech rhythms
- Brain can rewire itself to overcome dyslexia
Forensic psychology
- Life events influence suggestibility under interrogation
Health psychology
- Obesity--keeping up with the Joneses
- Close your eyes and motivate yourself
- Obesity linked to brain's reward system
- Reflecting on values makes people less defensive
- Running slows down aging, results of 20-year study shows
Memory
- Sleep enhances emotional memories
- Replay of memories during sleep--an indicator of aged-related memory loss?
- The Power of Peter Piper: How alliteration enhances poetry, prose, and memory
Neuroeconomics
- Preference, genetics and brain activity linked
Neuroscience
- Trigger for the brain's ability to learn identified
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- OCD linked to brain activity
Organizational psychology
- Managers' implicit assumptions about personnel
Personality
- Trust game and brain imaging expose borderline patients' inability to cooperate
- Motor empathy enhanced in psychopathic individuals
Psychotherapy
- Personal responsibility key to CBT success?
- Focusing on clients' strengths enhances therapeutic outcome
Social psychology
- Unconscious mimicry as an attempt to fit in
Sex & gender
- Contraceptive pill influences a woman's choice of partner
- Women less happy than men in later life
Substance abuse
- 'Erasing' drug-associated memories may prevent recovering drug abusers from relapsing
- Personality, reward, and endorphins
PsychLits: On the psych radar
- Average age for encountering Internet pornography
- Intriguing clues to autism
- Skin-patch test could predict inflammatory disorders
- Foetal alcohol syndrome--preventing damage to the foetal brain
- MDQ found to be useful in screening for bipolar disorder
- Serious school failure can lead to depression for girls, but not boys
- Stereotypes about overweight workers refuted
- Breast-feeding helps protect the child against anxiety and stress
Psych-pointers ... to relevant articles
- The cases for and against polygraph testing of sex offenders
