Psychology

Mental Health Disorders Are Not Like Measles, Which Makes It Difficult To View Them Using A Medical Lens

With two recent mass homicides, one by someone who endorsed " white supremacist " views and one that supported " Antifa " violence, the search is on for commonality between two people in opposition to each other in many ways. One commo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 6 2019 - 12:41pm

Military Aeromedical Patient Evacuations: Yet Another Way Dogs Rule

Members of the United States military who are injuried abroad often return to the U.S. for treatment and must be transported by aeromedical evacuation between medical facilities. Evacuations can lead to their own chronic and acute stress, on top of the inj ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2019 - 10:13am

Optimists Live 15% Longer

Scholars from  from Boston University School of Medicine), National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have used statistical correlation to conclude that individuals with greater optimism are more l ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2019 - 6:07pm

75% Of Democrats Say Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The United States

In recent Pew Survey data, 75 percent of moderate Democrats believe global climate change is a major threat to the well-being of the United States while 94 percent of Democrats who skew farther left believe that, up 30 percent from 2013. Overall, more Amer ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 28 2019 - 2:09pm

Is "Groupthink" A Problem For Climate Science?

When the Australian federal environment minister, Sussan Ley, went snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in August, she told waiting reporters on the shore that she’d seen “amazing wildlife, fish, turtles, clams … a reef teeming with life”. Such an upbeat ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 20 2019 - 5:00am

A Lot Of People Have Impostor Syndrome- Here's How To Deal With It

Impostor syndrome is where people feel like frauds even if they are actually capable and well-qualified. A new group of interviews finds that impostor syndrome is quite common and uncovers one of the best-- and worst-- ways to cope with such feelings. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2019 - 10:07am

Reduce Suicides By Intervening At...Animal Shelters?

HILLSBORO, Ore. — On Kimberly Repp’s office wall is a sign in Latin: Hic locus est ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitae. This is a place where the dead delight in helping the living. For medical examiners, it’s a mission. Their job is to investigate deaths an ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2019 - 6:54am

In An Experiment 'That Voice' Makes Modern Teens Less Likely To Respond To Moms- But In Real Life...

Older people often talk about how they knew they had gone too far with their mothers. While a father might yell more a mother's tone would change into "that voice" and they knew they had gone over an invisible line. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2019 - 9:10am

Paracelsus Horror: Environmental Working Group Tapwater Claims Take Chemical Cocktail Nonsense To The Next Level

Environmental Working Group, the trial lawyer organization that claims modern pesticides are killing us but the old kinds labeled as "Organic"(™) create healthier families,  has a new conspiracy tale out, this time that a "chemical cocktail& ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 2 2019 - 11:57am

Does Brexit Talk Make You Psychotic? You're Not Alone

Political events can take a serious toll on mental health- at least in one case. A man with a brief episode of acute psychosis convinced a doctor it was triggered by the 2016 Referendum on Brexit--the process of the UK leaving the European Union (EU), whic ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2019 - 12:06pm