by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Welcome back to PBB, everyone. Today, I want to jump start our conversations by discussing an interesting study that has been coming up in a number of different forums in recent days (including the comment...
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Publication bias in psychotherapy for depression
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Accessibility Level: Intermediate One theory of dyslexia is that it stems from abnormal brain connectivity -- that faulty connections between different language areas result in reading difficulty. Now, some evidence from another condition offers some support for this theory.Periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH) is a neurological condition in which neurons don’t migrate to the correct...
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Roald Dahl's Marvelleous Medicine
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Author Roald Dahl was particularly well known for darkly humorous children's books that form a riotous part of almost every childhood in Britain. Less well known is that he also made some significant contributions to neurology, as detailed in a brief article for Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation.The article is available online as a pdf and starts by noting that several of his b
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How Loss Creates Depression And Growth
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The Creative Destruction of Loss:Can We Grow More Than We Wither?tweetmeme_source = 'colebitting';tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly';tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.goodfables.com/blog/how-loss-creates-depression-and-growth.html';11. The capacity to tolerate distress and efficiently develop greater internal resources creates the greatest possibility for posttraumatic growth. Posttraumatic growth and posttr
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Today's youth aren't 'ego-driven slackers' after all
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Today's youth are generally not the self-centered, antisocial slackers that previous research has made them out to be, according to a provocative new study.
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I thought today for some light relief I would post my undergrad dissertation. As I can actually read it and feel OK about it, i reckon its not too bad, it also got quite a good grade It can be downloaded in full here. Don't submit it as your own! That's cheating! Any questions email me!The study was based on the using TARGET framework to influence motivational climat
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Falling in love with epilepsy and St Valentine
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I was surprised to find out that as well as being the patron saint of love, St Valentine is also the patron saint of epilepsy. I've just found a study that analysed six centuries of artistic depictions of the holy figure where he is often accompanied by people having seizures.The paper has a good description of St Valentine's historical association with what was known as the "falling sickness" or
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How to Stop Smoking
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1. Don't smoke.2. See 1.This is essentially what Simon Chapman and Ross MacKenzie suggest in a provocative PloS Medicine paper, The Global Research Neglect of Unassisted Smoking Cessation: Causes and Consequences.Their point is deceptively simple: there is lots of research looking at drugs and other treatments to help people quit smoking tobacco, but little attention is paid to people who quit wi
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