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Hanna Pickard on the elusive middle ground between personal responsibility and systemic factors in our understandings of addiction.

May 23, 2021 at 10:25 pm by Sean Crommelin By the age of two, the brain of a child is almost three-quarters the size of an adult’s. However, within this brain exists notable distinctions between the growing and grown mind.  Courtesy of Zoe Liberman While research has shown that humans have remarkably malleable, or neuroplastic, brains compared to other animals — even into adulthood — early childhood is when the human brain is most malleable, and these formative years...

Professor Who Suggested Sex Is Binary Ousted from American Psychological Association Email List Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash 24 May 2021 A retired professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University was removed from the listserv of a division of the American Psychological Association (APA) after he asked questions via email that suggested there are only two sexes. John Staddon, who had been on the listserv of APA’s Division 6: Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychol...

Embed ANDREW MAMBO, BYLINE: Hey, everyone. Im Andrew Mambo, one of the producers of the show. Before we get into todays episode, we have a favor to ask. Here on the INVISIBILIA team, weve been talking about how confusing friendships can be, how its one of the most important types of relationships we have and yet one of the least clearly defined, so we want your stories about the spoken and unspoken norms of friendship and how you navigate them. Like, have you unlocked the mysteries of making ne...

M.Sc. Health Analysis, Policy & Management at Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow, invites applications for the M.Sc. Health Analysis, Policy & Management course starting in September 2021. This course takes a ‘systems thinking’ approach to improving decision-making in healthcare. Duration:12 months Eligibility: Minimum second-class Honours degree, or overseas equivalent in Management Sciences, Economics, Business, Public Health, Health Sciences, Mathem...

 E-Mail To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as the telephone consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and color, and sounds, such as ringing. In addition, there are actions, i.e. how we use a telephone. However, the concept of telephone does not only arise in the brain when we have a telephone in front of us. It also appears when the term is merely mentioned. If we read the word "telephone", o...

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the telephone’ consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and color, and sounds, such as ringing. In addition, there are actions, i.e. how we use a telephone. However, the concept of telephone does not only arise in the brain when we have a telephone in front of us. It also appears when the term...

Babies learn the difference between “us” and “them” fairly early in life. Social categorization (the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality) can be a useful strategy when you’re new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UCSB developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman. The act of creating groups — for instance, all the objects that can be catego...

You know that raw overwhelm people have been reporting after months of a pandemic, compounded by economic issues and social unrest? Does fatigue and compulsive social media scrolling strike a familiar chord?

Creative 17 Add to collection Psychological study from adam&eveDDB and PRETTYBIRD director Margot Bowman follows a girl caught unprepared for her period at school A psychological study is at the heart of a new campaign by Hey Girls, the social enterprise founded by Celia Hodson to tackle period poverty. The idea, created by adam&eveDDB, revolves around a film called ‘Seeing Red’ which has been carefully crafted to evoke anger that motivates positive action. The proposed dictionary definit...