Stretch your memory with fun challenges designed by experts. Your answers will help University of Edinburgh experimental psychologists with their research.
Most people will not be able to get everything right. People with normal memories can have low scores.
Duration: about 20 minutes
Source: BBC-Science & Nature: Human Body & Mind
New fathers don’t receive a how-to manual when they hold their little bundle of joy for the first time. The book “Why Fathers Count: The Importance of Fathers and Their Involvement With Children,” provides information and tips for fathers and those who support them at all stages of parenting — from new fathers to grandfathers. It also contains information and insight on fathers and families on a wide variety of topics such as fathers and daughters, fathers and play, working fathers, fathers who are divorced and fathers and a child’s education.
According to the book, the most important work that men do is being totally involved in the lives of their children and families. This contemporary edited anthology focuses on key issues in fathering and father involvement. The book is edited by Sean Brotherson, associate professor of family science, North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D., and Joseph White, research scientist at the Institute for Research and Evaluation, Salt Lake City, Utah. It is available at http://www.whyfatherscount.com and at http://www.mensstudies.com. [continue reading…]
New evidence shows that the brains of adults with autism are “wired” differently from people without the disorder, and this abnormal pattern of connectivity may be responsible for the social impairments that are characteristic of autism.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, a team of researchers affiliated with the University of Washington’s Autism Center also found that the most severely socially impaired subjects in the study exhibited the most abnormal pattern of connectivity among a network of brain regions involved in face processing. [continue reading…]
Psychiatrists have cautioned against the use of antidepressants alone in people with bipolar disorders,
saying they could worsen a patient’s condition by causing a destabilisation in mood.
Dr Ajeet Singh and Professor Michael Berk, consultant psychiatrists from the University of Melbourne,
state in the current edition of Australian Prescriber that the goal of treatment in bipolar disorder is to
stabilise mood, and antidepressants may defeat this purpose if they are not taken with other drugs.
“Patients may need an antidepressant, but this must be taken with a mood-stabilising drug.
Antidepressants place patients at risk of switching to elevated phases of the disorder and rapid cycling
patterns,” they say in the article. [continue reading…]
