Category: Articles
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Why CBT?
Read more: Why CBT?Judith Beck’s debut at the Huffington Post: The How and Why of Cognitive Behavior Therapy. [N]ot all psychotherapy is the same. Some modalities have a strong evidence base that demonstrates their effectiveness. Other modalities have never been shown to be effective. Yet they continue to be practiced by psychotherapists who consider an evidence base to be…
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Voice Blindness
Read more: Voice BlindnessAn NPR portrait of a very rare problem, phonagnosia, or voice blindness: According to phonagnosia researcher Diana Sidtis, the part of the brain that allows people to distinguish things like age, gender and emotional content in a voice is different from the part of the brain that makes sense of whether or not the voice…
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Sex, Drugs, Exercise, Fertility, CBT, and Shrimp
Read more: Sex, Drugs, Exercise, Fertility, CBT, and ShrimpStand-outs this morning from around the web… ScienceDaily: Combining sex and drugs reduces rock and roll NYT: Your Brain on Exercise WebMD: Getting Pregnant: Easy Ways To Encourage Fertility PsychCentral: Therapist Competency Important for Treatment Success ScienceDaily: Antidepressants make shrimps see the light
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Angry Patriotism
Read more: Angry PatriotismScienceDaily: Anger Drives Support for Wartime Presidents, Study Finds Contrary to popular opinion and previous speculations among psychologists, Lambert’s study shows that the impulse to support the president in times of war has little to do with feelings of anxiety or uncertainty or needing a president to somehow make us feel safe.
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Depression Treatment (on a Budget)
Read more: Depression Treatment (on a Budget)PsychCentral looks at ways to get the most out of depression treatment during tough economic times. Suggestions include: Ask your doctor if a generic form of your medication exists and if it would be all right for you to take. Target and Walmart are just a few of the pharmacies that offer generic medications for as little…