Marqués à vie. «Les victimes d'intimidation, comme celles d'autres formes de mauvais traitements dans l'enfance, en ressentent les effets jusque dans la cinquantaine», soulignent les auteurs.
Leur recherche porte sur près de 8000 personnes nées en Angleterre, en Écosse et au pays de Galles en 1958. En analysant les données recueillies à divers moments de leur vie, les chercheurs ont constaté que ceux qui avaient été la cible d'intimidation entre l'âge de 7 et 11 ans présentaient des taux de détresse psychologique plus élevés dans les décennies suivantes. Suicide: Do Public Mental Health Campaigns Work? Instead, she was a tourist wanting Hines to take her picture.
The look of desperation on his face apparently didn’t register. Elation crumpled into despair. “Nobody cares,” he thought. “Absolutely nobody cares.” Hines soon hurdled a railing, stepped out onto a ledge 25 stories above San Francisco Bay and jumped. Thirteen years removed from his attempt, Hines is now an author and lecturer, and doing quite well considering his experience. “When you learn to be self-aware with mental illness, you can save your own life,” Hines says. In May, the Centers for Disease Control released data showing that in 2010, 38,364 people weren’t able to save themselves. As more Americans commit suicide, some in the field question the effectiveness of current prevention programs. One program sits at the intersection of those two approaches. At the Waterfall The bridge phone inside New York City’s suicide prevention call center only rings about once a month. 'Hyper Empathy' From Brain Surgery. In a strange case, a woman developed "hyper empathy" after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case.
Empathy is the ability to recognize another person's emotions. The case was especially unusual because the amygdala is involved in recognizing emotions, and removing it would be expected to make it harder rather than easier for a person to read others' emotions, according to the researchers involved in her case. During the woman's surgery, doctors removed parts of her temporal lobe, including the amygdala, from one side of the brain. The surgery is a common treatment for people with severe forms of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) who don't respond to medication. After the surgery, the seizures she had suffered multiple times a day stopped. She also described an increased ability to decode others' mental states, including their emotions, the researchers said. Kinds of empathy The missing amygdala. Inside the Nazi Mind at the Nuremberg Trials.
Thomas Piketty and his ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ are white hot, but he’s no ‘Tocqueville for Today’—and he and his fan club have Tocqueville all wrong.
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new Frenchman in town. Armed with progressives’ two favorite things—statistics and a European accent—the celebrity economist Thomas Piketty has hit American shores in support of his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The New Science of Mind. A Point of View: Why embracing change is the key to happiness. 7 September 2013Last updated at 20:54 ET Human happiness may rely on our ability to conquer a natural fear of upsetting the status quo, says AL Kennedy.
Imagine three identical boxes. L'apprentissage prénatale du langage existe-t-il? - Psychologie. Le langage en construction(s) « [L'acquisition du langage] est un travail qu'on ne voit pas et qu'il faut reconstruire théoriquement».
J.K. Rowling's Secret: How a Forensic Linguist Figured It Out. It sounds like something out of, well, a detective novel: the U.K.’s Sunday Times broke the news yesterday that Robert Galbraith, the “first time” writer behind the critically acclaimed crime novel The Cuckoo’s Calling, was, in fact, the nom de plume of Harry Potter creator J.K.
Rowling. Galbraith was described as a former military police investigator with a surprising knack for language — that is, before “he” was unmasked as the megafamous author, who told the Times that writing under a fake name was “liberating.” As explained by the New York Times, a writer for the British paper received an anonymous tip via Twitter, in which a now deleted user claimed that Rowling was the real author of The Cuckoo’s Calling.
(Is it possible that the anonymous user was the book’s publisher? As the New York Times notes, there’s no way to rule it out.) (MORE: Lev Grossman Reviews The Casual Vacancy) How to Trick Your Brain Into Thinking Your Day is Longer. Désir mimétique. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.
Notre troisième cerveau: Amazon.fr: Jean-Michel Oughourlian. Lecture et pathologies du langage oral. Les systèmes d’écriture varient selon les cultures.
Les Chinois utilisent un système largement idéographique (une idée est associé à un signe) alors que les Occidentaux emploient un système alphabétique, le système des Japonais étant « mixte ». Pourtant, malgré la diversité des types d’écritures, tous les lecteurs du monde utilisent les mêmes zones cérébrales pour écrire.