The article “Mental Health Professionals in the ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Room” on the cover of this issue provides an invaluable service. It documents psychologists’ and physicians’ involvement in enhanced interrogation programs.
BISD hires more school psychologists (The Brownsville Herald) The Brownsville Independent School District has decided to hire additional Licensed Specialists in School Psychology to help tame a mountain of pending evaluations for special education students.
The Special Issue Spotter We trawl the web so you don't have to:Stress-induced depression and comorbidities: From bench to bedside. (PLoS One).Mathematics in brain imaging. (NeuroImage).Assortment structure and choice (Psychology and Marketing).Episodic memory and healthy ageing (Memory).Coming soon: Celebrating a century of psychological research (British Journal of Psychology). Over the past 100 years, the British Journ
The 'Science Books for Undergrads' blog meme Well now. Pleiotropy has tagged me in a blog meme! Here it is:Imagine: YOU are asked to assign a half-dozen-or-so books as required reading for ALL science majors at a college as part of their 4-year degree; NOT technical or text books, but other works, old or new, touching upon the nature of science, philosophy, thought, or methodology in a way that a practicing scientist might gain from.Post yo
The Human Brain Is On The Edge Of Chaos Researchers have provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos," at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study provides experimental data on an idea previously fraught with theoretical speculation.
The Brain Maintains Language Skills In Spite Of Alcohol Damage By Drawing From Other Regions Researchers know that alcoholism can damage the brain's frontal lobes and cerebellum, regions involved in language processing. Nonetheless, alcoholics' language skills appear to be relatively spared from alcohol's damaging effects. New findings suggest the brain maintains language skills by drawing upon other systems that would normally be used to perform other tasks simultaneously.
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