Category: Articles

  • Tech Support

    Article + resources: Social Networks a Lifeline for the Chronically Ill: People fighting chronic illnesses are less likely than others to have Internet access, but once online they are more likely to blog or participate in online discussions about health problems […] They are gathering on big patient networking sites like PatientsLikeMe, HealthCentral, Inspire, CureTogether…

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  • Birth Weight

    Not mental health per se, but with big psych impact:  A NYT article about how early habits (really early–starting in the womb) can get someone set on a course for obesity later in life.

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  • Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments

    From PsychCentral, a list of Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments.  Click around, help science, maybe have fun. At any given time, hundreds of online psychology experiments are going on. They are a great, cost-efficient method to gather experimental data from the multitudes of people online. These experiments can be fun to try, but also provide…

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  • Dealing with Chronic Pain

    A new post at my PsychologyToday.com blog, Crisis Knocks–an interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist, regarding Tension Myoneural Syndrome (TMS): Anyone who’s ever had a headache or stomachache as the result of stress has experienced TMS. For most, the pain goes away within a day or two, but for some it becomes a chronic…

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  • Zone of Greatness: More Internet Dating Stats

    For internet daters (and stats lovers), a series of new and old posts at the OkCupid.com blog: Interactive maps showing why men should be looking to date older women, among other things. Another entry looks at the data and comes up with Exactly What to Say in a First Message. Another looks at How Races and…

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