Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Neurons, News | Posted on 11-01-2011 | 
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ScienceDaily (2011-01-10) — Researchers have found that within the brain’s neocortex lies a subnetwork of highly active neurons that behave much like people in social networks. Like Facebook, these neuronal networks have a small population of highly active members who give and receive more information than most other members. By identifying these neurons, scientists will [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News, psychology, psychotherapy | Posted on 03-01-2011 |
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Dear Psychology Corner readers, I invite you to be a part of my newest project involving the Sic Cogito Institute. The Romanian Journal of Psychology, Psychotherapy and Neuroscience is a semestrial open-access journal, published online by the Romanian „Sic cogito” Institute, starting June 2011. The goal of such a scientific material is that of [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Neurons, News | Posted on 02-01-2011 |
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ScienceDaily (2011-01-01) — An unexpected process that is required for regeneration after severe neuron injury has been discovered in the part of the neuron that receives information from other cells and from the outside world. The scientists hope that the discovery will provide insights for researchers who are developing drug therapies for patients with nerve [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 24-12-2010 |
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Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 12-12-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-12-11) — A new study shows that when you imagine eating a certain food, it reduces your actual consumption of that food. This landmark discovery changes the decades-old assumption that thinking about something desirable increases cravings for it and its consumption. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 03-12-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-11-30) — So, he or she has cheated on you for the umpteenth time and their only excuse is: “I just can’t help it.” According to researchers, they may be right. The propensity for infidelity could very well be in their DNA. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 27-11-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-11-26) — Successfully treating and reversing the effects of multiple sclerosis, or MS, may one day be possible using a drug originally developed to treat chronic pain, according to experts. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 09-10-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-10-06) — Is an adult with a history of childhood bullying more likely to be homeless, a compulsive liar, or someone who scams another person out of money? According to a new study, the numbers indicate just that. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 03-10-2010 |
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More information about the event on the “Sic cogito” Institute website. (Lang: Ro)
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 29-09-2010 |
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More information about the event on the “Sic cogito” Institute website. (Lang: Ro)
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 14-09-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-09-13) — Cognitive scientists have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. The researchers found that video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this benefit doesn’t just make them better at playing video games, but improves a wide variety [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News, Relationships | Posted on 24-08-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-08-23) — Relationships that start with a spark and not much else aren’t necessarily doomed from the get-go, new research suggests. Couples who became sexually involved as friends or acquaintances and were open to a serious relationship ended up just as happy as those who dated and waited. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 15-08-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-08-13) — Severe mental illness is more common among college students than it was a decade ago, with more young people arriving on campus with pre-existing conditions and a willingness to seek help for emotional distress, according to a new study. The data support what college mental health professionals have noted for some time. [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 30-07-2010 |
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Dear Psychology Corner devotees, My name is Wray Herbert. I am a long-time science writer and blogger in Washington, DC. I write the “We’re Only Human” blog for the Association for Psychological Science, the “Full Frontal Psychology” blog, and–beginning now–the “On Second Thought” blog for Psychology Today. “On Second Thought” is also the name of [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 29-07-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-07-28) — Michelangelo, the 16th century master painter and accomplished anatomist, appears to have hidden an image of the brainstem and spinal cord in a depiction of God in the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, a new study reports. These findings by a neurosurgeon and a medical illustrator may explain long controversial and unusual features of [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News, quality of life | Posted on 18-07-2010 |
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Photo source: Science Daily ScienceDaily (2010-07-08) — Happier youths are also healthier youths, according to new research. Adolescents’ positive emotions and moods, as well as their satisfaction with life, could be more important than their anxiety or depression levels for predicting their physical health, they argue. Read full article here.
Posted by Remez Sasson | Posted in News | Posted on 13-07-2010 |
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- How many times a day, do you watch the news on TV? - How many times a day, do you listen to the news on the radio? - How much time do you spend reading the newspapers everyday? - Are you a news addict? - Do you really need to stuff your mind with [...]
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Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 08-07-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-07-07) — Soccer referees may have an unconscious bias towards calling fouls based on a play’s direction of motion, according to a new study. Researchers found that soccer experts made more foul calls when action moved right-to-left, or leftward, compared to left-to-right or rightward action, suggesting that two referees watching the same play from [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 22-06-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-06-21) — Researchers are the first to identify brain abnormalities in children at high risk for schizophrenia shortly after birth. The finding could lead to earlier detection of schizophrenia and enable better prevention and treatment. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News, psychology | Posted on 09-06-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-06-08) — Exposure to secondhand smoke appears to be associated with psychological distress and the risk of future psychiatric hospitalization among healthy adults, according to a new report. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 02-06-2010 |
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Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 25-05-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-05-24) — Exposure to specific bacteria in the environment, already believed to have antidepressant qualities, could increase learning behavior, according to new research. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Brain, Neurons, News, Stress | Posted on 11-04-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-04-11) — Stress can literally warp your brain, reshaping some brain structures that help cope with life’s pressures. In the short term, the stress response can be helpful — i.e., fight or flight — but over time it leads to a wear and tear that can cause disease in both the brain and other [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Brain activity, News | Posted on 06-04-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-04-05) — A new study of brain activity in depressed and anxious people indicates that some of the ill effects of depression are modified — for better or for worse — by anxiety. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 26-03-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-03-26) — Researchers have found that even before infants begin to speak, words play an important role in their cognition. For 3-month-old infants, words influence performance in a cognitive task in a way that goes beyond the influence of other kinds of sounds, including musical tones. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Brain, Neuroscience, News | Posted on 15-03-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-03-15) — The brains of psychopaths appear to be wired to keep seeking a reward at any cost, new research finds. The research uncovers the role of the brain’s reward system in psychopathy and opens a new area of study for understanding what drives these individuals. Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Neuroscience, News | Posted on 28-02-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-02-27) — Many modern dolphin brains are significantly larger than those of humans and second in mass to the human brain when corrected for body size, says a scientist. Some dolphin brains exhibit features correlated with complex intelligence, including a large expanse of neocortical volume that is more convoluted than that of humans, extensive [...]
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Brain, Neuroscience, News | Posted on 23-02-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-02-23) — Neuroscientists have mapped the brain structures that affect general intelligence. The study adds new insight to a highly controversial question: what is intelligence, and how can we measure it?
Read full article here.
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 12-02-2010 |
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Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in News | Posted on 11-02-2010 |
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As a member of the organizing committee, I have the pleasure to invite you to the “17th European Congress of Psychotherapy”, that will be taking place in Bucharest, from July 1st to the 4th.
The event, called “Crisis: change or challenge” will benefit from the extraordinary participation of special guests invited by the Romanian Schools of [...]
Posted by Doncrack | Posted in News | Posted on 12-01-2010 |
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Do you ever conceive to yourself, or hit someone tell you that you over analyze things? I undergo this is a trait that I have, and I also undergo many other grouping with the aforementioned tendency.
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Posted by Doncrack | Posted in News | Posted on 09-01-2010 |
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ScienceDaily (2010-01-07) — Neuroscientists have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted to specific neurons, they could potentially lead to new treatments for abnormal brain activity associated with disorders including chronic pain, epilepsy, brain injury and Parkinson’s disease.
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Posted by Doncrack | Posted in News | Posted on 06-01-2010 |
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Self-effacing people are secretly confident
Despite appearances, most people think highly of themselves.
"No matter how meek they might appear, most people are endowed with the same self-confidence, new research reveals. For some, however, that confidence is buried deep inside.
Within the United States as well as across cultures—and stereotypes —all individuals hold a positive inner confidence.
“A given person with high implicit [or inner] self-esteem may be outwardly self-promoting or may be outwardly very modest,” said study team member Anthony Greenwald, a psychologist at the University of Washington.
The results are detailed in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science."
Posted by Doncrack | Posted in News | Posted on 06-01-2010 |
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Adam Smith, the author of the Wealth of Nations (the outline for capitalist economies) would be quite perturbed if he saw the state of public schools in our country. Why? Because they go against everything he stood for.
A capitalist economy is based on supply and demand, accountability, and above all humanity's innate greed. Being the antithesis of socialism, where people are supposed to be motivated by promoting the common good, capitalism correctly assumes that an individual's desire for self promotion is usually stronger. So why is our education system based on socialist philosophies, free of competition, or accountability? The public answer we are given is: Because no child can be left behind. But the "simple fact [is] that one of the surest ways to leave a kid "behind" is to hand him over to the government."
"Americans want universal education, just as they want universally safe food. But nobody believes that the government should run 90% of the restaurants, farms and...
Posted by Doncrack | Posted in News | Posted on 04-01-2010 |
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The last few posts have brought to light some of the interesting dichotomies that plague America today... On one hand, we are taught to believe that we are the most advanced in terms of human rights, given our long-standing commitment to and foundation in the concept of freedom (i.e. see Constitution and Bill of Rights). Yet, at the same time, while we sometimes over-value life, for example, the debate on stem cells, at other times, we just as easily undervalue it, for example see the value of a mexican post.
What kind of culture do we live in where an unborn fetus that is only a few cells large has more rights than an actual human being?
Posted by Lucia Grosaru | Posted in Dyslexia, High IQ, News, Reading | Posted on 20-12-2009 |
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ScienceDaily (2009-12-19) — Contrary to popular belief, some very smart, accomplished people cannot read well. This unexpected difficulty in reading in relation to intelligence, education and professional status is called dyslexia, and researchers have presented new data that explain how otherwise bright and intelligent people struggle to read.
Read full article here.
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ScienceDaily (2009-12-09) — Researchers are challenging long-held beliefs that human beings are wired to be selfish. In a wide range of studies, social scientists are amassing a growing body of evidence to show we are evolving to become more compassionate and collaborative in our quest to survive and thrive.
Read full article here.
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ScienceDaily (2009-12-06) — Even the anticipation of sweets may cause our muscles to start taking up more blood sugar, say researchers. That message is delivered via neurons in the brain’s hypothalamus containing the chemical known as orexin and the sympathetic nervous system, the studies in mice and rats suggest.
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