Description: Sometimes you may run across references to large scale studies that take broad, general looks at parts or sectors of the population and sometimes those large survey studies take a look at aspects of mental health. Before taking the results of such studies at face value it is well worth taking a moment or… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Psychophysical Disorders Health Psychology
Psychology and Covid-19: When We Did Not Know We Had the Rugs That Were Yanked
Description: I am sure you have heard the phrase “having the rug pulled out from under you,” before. Interpreted literally, it obviously means having the very thing you are standing on violently shifted from under you, typically with catastrophic results. The “magic” act of whipping a table clothe out from under a fully set table… Read more »
Indigenous Psychology and Psychological Ethics
Description: How does (or just Does) Psychology deal with culture? How does (or just Does) Psychology deal with historical trauma? How universal are Psychology theories and applications? How these questions are understood and how they are addressed are important for how Psychology comes to terms with its past, present and future engagements with indigenous persons…. Read more »
Alzheimer’s: When Potential Treatments Fail
Description: Imagine you are a biochemist and you have been working on finding substances that could be used against the two main toxic proteins involved in Alzheimer’s, amyloid beta and tau. Further imagine that you have found a substance that seems to do what you want, at least when tested on the proteins in petri… Read more »
Symtoms that are “In Your Head” can be Very Real
Description: What would you think if you went to the emergency at your local hospital with intense stomach pain and were told after examination that they could find nothing wrong with you and that maybe the pain was “just in your head”? Does that mean you are crazy (to use the technical term)? Well the… Read more »
What Might Woodpeckers be able to tell Football Players About Concussion?
Description: As I write this it is Sunday February 5 and I am getting some work done to clear up my late afternoon and early evening so I can watch the Superbowl. I must admit to a bit of guilt over looking forward to the game as I have read a lot over the past… Read more »
Football, Will Smith and CTE
Description: The recently released Will Smith film, Concussion, dramatizes a rising concern over the long-term effects of head injuries suffered by professional football players (among other athletes). This video story reports on a study in which the brains of former NFL players would passed away were autopsied and studied in detail for the effects of… Read more »
When are Synapses Impacted in the Emergence of Alzheimer’s?
Description: In relation to Alzheimer’s disease, the races on to properly understand not only the underlying causes of the disorder but also the order in which these causes unfold. This article talks about recent research that seems to be located the point in the disease development process for the actual synapses in the neural system… Read more »
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Talk versus Light Therapy?
Description: As we head into winter and the amount of natural light available to us diminishes some of us will start to experience the effects of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). You may have heard about light therapy as a treatment for this disorder but how do you think the effects of light therapy compare to… Read more »
Depression, Bipolar Disorder and “Fuzzy” Thinking
Description: Feeling like your thinking is less sharp or even describable as “fuzzy’ is a fairly common subjective report offered by people struggling with depression or bipolar disorder. However, there has been debate as to whether such feeling are reflections of actual changes in brain function or related, instead to changes in mood or motivation… Read more »
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