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by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Greeting, folks! Over the past two plus weeks, PBB has been on hiatus. The reason for our absence is a wonderful one: early in the morning on February 24, Joye and I welcomed our first... Read More »
Breakthrough or Breakdown?With rare exceptions, we seem to struggle in our desire to breakthrough. Yet, exactly what are we trying to breakthrough? Typically, it's about our desire to change or to become unstuck. The groove of old thinking, feeling and the rut of old behavior become deeply embedded. The older that we get the more anxious we may become that we won't be able to break free from the Read More »
This is the fourth in a series of articles on emotional intelligence for personal growth.Self-knowledge is something we all strive towards. But how many of us have done a complete review of our emotions and how they influence our thoughts and behavior? Most people find that pretty hard to do, especially since they struggle to put their feelings into words. We talk about "will power" as the ultima Read More »
There are it seems more reports and strategies concerning obesity than just about anything else. The strange thing is I have yet to read a bad strategy or poorly presented report, most of the papers are excellent. Its the scale and complexity of the problem that seems to be defeating us. The best report on the causes remain in my view the UK Government Foresight report, available on this site. Read More »
Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:The University of California has an interview with space psychiatrist Nick KanasThere's a thoughtful consideration of the recent New York Times article on whether depression has evolutionary benefits over at Neuron Culture.Time magazine discusses research finding that deaths from cocaine overdoses rise even when the weather warms up only sligh Read More »
I had lunch with Death. Some 12 or so years ago, as a chief resident in psychiatry, I sat eye-to-eye across the table from Death. One-on-one, over our faculty club lunches, he was a bit hard to converse with. In fact, the exact opposite of how he had been when presenting grand rounds just an hour before. In forensic circles, Dr James Grigson, now deceased, is arguably one of the most well recogni Read More »
Christians don't agree on the nature of their god. Their different ideas are many and varied, but one broad way of looking at it is that they tend to believe either in a personal god (one who takes an active, day-to-day interest in people's lives and also intervenes), or an impersonal, distant god (the sort of god who lights the blue touch paper at the moment of creation and then retires to a saf Read More »
When you come across a line like this in a paper, you can't help but laugh, "We now discuss and explain the cumulative number of sheep played in all rounds of the game." Yes, subjects played sheep. You may wonder how. I shall attempt to explain.In three papers based on work in South Africa and Namibia, Bjørn Vollan and, in one paper, his co-author Bernd Hayo investigate several different experim Read More »
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