Psychology

Smokers Dumber Than Non-Smokers?

Tracking 18- to 21-year-old men enlisted in the Israeli army, researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have demonstrated an important connection between the number of cigarettes young males smoke and their IQ--young men who smoke are likely dumber tha ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2010 - 6:50pm

Video games: A parent's best friend

When I was the president of an international private coeducational boarding school for teenagers with dyslexia and other kinds of learning disorders, I was frequently asked by parents to curtail their children's use of video games. I often wondered wh ...

Blog Post - James Moon - Apr 3 2010 - 3:40pm

Autism Awareness-Pain tolerance

A loose quote or two from and old Autism of America  handout sheets that were pre Rain Man. "Non cuddly babies that will not move to be comfortable in mothers arms" "pain toleance- shows no reaction to pain"  Of course with normal peop ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:53pm

Does Christianity Encourage Racism?

Psychologists at Baylor University say that people primed with Christian concepts are likely to express  racial prejudice and general negative views toward African-Americans. The researchers don't know why the association exists but speculate that it ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2010 - 4:40pm

autism Hero invents Computer /WWII hero

Alan Turing 1912-1954 Alan Turing an autisitc guy from the glory days of Autism before the Rain Man Era Curse was able to absently overcome autism and like many of us learned a different kind of human thought process the results were OUTSTANDING-he was fa ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:53pm

Testing For Autism Pain Tolerance

From the dark ages of autism when we did some sort of traditional life.  Experience is the only teacher in life and the experts of autism just can't fathom the ideal (nor can contemporary medicine) of a pain free human.  Perhaps we were the circus act ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 14 2010 - 12:23pm

Surging Autism Diagnoses Driven By Social Influence

The surging number of autism diagnoses is driven in part by social interaction between parents, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sociology. The study found that children living near a child who has been previously diagnosed with au ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2010 - 11:59am

Arthur & Autism Planet With Indy

The PBSKids show "Arthur" ran an episode featuring a new character, Carl, who has Aspergers Syndrome.  Aspergers is either an autism-like condition or a form of high-functioning autism, depending on which definition you subscribe to.  Its marked ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 10 2010 - 11:42pm

Unfinished picture thoughts

Picture thoughts-before they are converted correctly to words. Eonverye taht can raed tihs rsaie yuor hnad.. To my 'selected' strange-minded friends: If you can read the following paragraph, forward it on to your friends and the person that sent ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:48pm

Jealousy Can Blind You, Literally

University of Delaware psychologists say that jealously may literally impair vision. In a recent study published in Emotion, the researchers found that women who were made to feel jealous were so distracted by unpleasant emotional images they became unable ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2010 - 3:27pm