Tag: psychology
group name: brain-talk
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November 13, 2006 02:00 AM EST --
Handwriting is brain writing. People do change and so does their handwriting. The handwriting of a very changeable person will have various slants, thickness and weight of strokes. . . . more
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June 02, 2007 02:54 PM EDT --
I have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and there is a flip side to ADD that not many people know about: when our attention does get fixed on something, it stays fixed! This is called "hyperfocus" . . . more
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May 19, 2008 01:52 PM EDT --
Due to the sensitive nature of this topic and out of respect for Gather members of all persuasions, I will refrain from naming this condition. However my readers are perfectly free to use generally . . . more
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May 14, 2006 10:43 PM EDT --
I have been meditating on different ways of being human in this world. I had gone through a series of steps arriving at the Jungian personality types. They say most of the human population . . . more
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February 19, 2007 09:09 PM EST --
Sometimes, when I hit rock bottom – and I still do – I think maybe writing about it will give it that attribute they call “redeeming moral value”.
I’m not saying . . . more
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May 19, 2006 11:00 AM EDT --
The medulla oblongata is in the brain stem, which connects the brain to the spinal chord. Although the spinal chord is very important, . . . more
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August 25, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
Shown here is the brilliant Russian neuroscientist and writer Dr. Alexander Luria.
Here is an older Luria on the right. Unfortunately he is now deceased.
Luria was a psychologist . . . more
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May 10, 2006 04:13 PM EDT --
Evolutionary Neuropsychology of Depression
Based on recent reading about mouse stress experiments and their
conclusions about effects of different kinds of stressors on
genetically different mice in . . . more
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May 19, 2006 10:38 AM EDT --
This drawing by Wilhelm Wundt is . . . more
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November 29, 2006 10:19 AM EST --
Janie thought it would be good for me to write a little about our anger.
Sometimes I am angry in her presence, and sometimes she is angry in mine. There may be any number of legitimate reasons for . . . more
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May 18, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
This image of Wilhelm Wundt is in the public domain in the US because it was first published prior to 1923.
Shown here is a drawing from Princliples of Physiological Psychology, which was . . . more
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May 19, 2006 11:21 AM EDT --
The drawing, in German, was by Wundt. The caption of the figure was translated into English in 1904.
Again the drawing, by Wundt in 1902, . . . more
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August 25, 2006 09:02 AM EDT --
Introduction
Although Soviet psychiatry has been criticized for abuses, there has been brilliant research. Soviet psychiatrists have been accused of putting dissidents in mental hospitals. I do . . . more
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May 28, 2007 12:41 AM EDT --
The Brain from Top to Bottom
How are we to hope that, one day, the ‘man’ that we all carry within us might free himself from the animal that we also carry within us, if he is never informed . . . more
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May 20, 2006 04:53 AM EDT --
Below are some links to recent news story related to the brain, nueroscience or brain injury. Please peruse and read more on those topics of interest to you.
Attention Shoppers: Researchers . . . more
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February 21, 2007 09:43 AM EST --
You could easily observe that I am as comfortable with my point of view as any “You” in my world, and so who am I to advocate openmindedness (with the full audacity of suggesting it start with . . . more
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April 21, 2007 12:15 PM EDT --
As the bouquets of sorrow are heaped ever higher on the campus of Virginia Tech the survivors of last weeks rampage look for answers to help explain what to them, in the depth of their despair, seems unexplainable. . . . more
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February 02, 2008 11:44 AM EST --
Introduction
Psychology is the science of behavior. The science of normal behavior was studied extensively by Wilhelm Wundt of Germany. He wrote many versions of a text called Physiological . . . more
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July 22, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
Denmark's Prisons to try Meditation
(There were several photos - especially of the Romany Gypsy culture - to this final article, but nothing in the upload ffeatures . . . more
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February 13, 2007 03:35 PM EST --
Two of the most common cognitive mistakes, Confirmation Bias and Attribution Error, have far reaching consequences in everything from politics to auto repair.
Attribution Error is where, given . . . more
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