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Topics from Multidimensional Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Topics from Multidimensional Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Deric Bownds' MindBlog APS Wikipedia Initiative More than 3,300 psychological scientists and their students have joined the APS Wikipedia Initiative (APSWI) by editing and rating article quality and students, under the supervision of their professors, are using Wikipedia entries as course writing assignments. The goal of APSWI is to make information about psychology on Wikipedia as complete and accurate as possible. APS is calling on you to support the Association’s mission to deploy the power of Wikipedia to represent psychological science as fully as possible and thereby to promote the free teaching of psychology worldwide. Why Wikipedia? Teaching with Wikipedia The easiest way to improve psychology on Wikipedia is to make editing articles part of a course writing assignment, in which students contribute content to Wikipedia in place of a traditional research paper. Students gain valuable experience from writing Wikipedia articles: Other Ways to Help Become a Volunteer Editor. Become a Volunteer Rater. Ready to get started?

TechPsych Self-realization and Psychological Disturbances, by Roberto Assagioli By Roberto Assagioli , Source: Psychosynthesis Research Foundation. Issue No. 10 See all english psychosynthesis articles on Kentaur Training The study of the psychopathological aspects of human nature has contributed a vast mass of observations, theories and techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders. It has produced the widespread psychoanalytic movement and other aspects of dynamic psychology which have greatly enlarged and deepened our knowledge of the human psyche. However, this pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated emphasis on the morbid manifestations and on the lower aspects of human nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings. These limitations have been realized in recent times by a growing number of investigators who have started a healthy reaction. 1. 2. 3. 4. 1. 2.

NeuroLogica Blog Jan 13 2017 Cognitive Biases in Health Care Decision Making This was an unexpected pleasant find in an unusual place. The Gerontological Society of America recently put out a free publication designed to educate patients about cognitive biases and heuristics and how they can adversely affect decision making about health care. The publication is aimed at older health care consumers, but the information it contains is applicable to all people and situations. It is a well written excellent summary of common cognitive biases with a thorough list of references. What is most encouraging about this publication is the simple fact that it recognizes that this is an issue. The report is aimed simultaneously at health care providers and patients. Continue Reading » Jan 12 2017 Curcumin Hype vs Reality A recent systematic review of the alleged health benefits of curcumin show that, yet again, hype based on “traditional use” is not a reliable guide. The systematic review had two main findings: Jan 10 2017

The Illusion of the Self : An Interview with Bruce Hood Bruce Hood is currently the Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol. He has been a research fellow at Cambridge University and University College London, a visiting scientist at MIT, and a faculty professor at Harvard. He has been awarded an Alfred Sloan Fellowship in neuroscience, the Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Infancy Researchers, the Robert Fantz Memorial Award and voted a Fellow by the Association for Psychological Science. He is the author of several books, including SuperSense: Why We Believe the Unbelievable. This year he was selected as the 2011 Royal Institution Christmas Lecturer—to give three lectures broadcast by the BBC—the most prestigious appointment for the public engagement of science in the UK. In what sense is the self an illusion? For me, an illusion is a subjective experience that is not what it seems. If the self is not what it seems, then what is it?

Findings by Greg Miller Before this afternoon's social issues roundtable, I blithely assumed that neuroscience is mostly a good thing for society. It's all about understanding emotions, memory and cognition--the things that make us who we are--and tackling scourges such as Alzheimer's disease and depression. So I was thrown a bit off-guard by the opening remarks of the session moderator, Alan Leshner. (Full disclosure: Leshner is the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and executive publisher of Science, but I wasn't coerced, bribed, or even asked to show up at the roundtable or write about it.) The other speakers picked up this troubling thread and highlighted aspects of neuroscience research that have the potential to elicit unease in the general population. Greely went on to say that although he thinks that's possible, neuroscience is probably less likely to become a flash point in the culture wars than evolutionary science has been.

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