Recent Posts Tagged With 'behavior'

• White Bears – The Paradox of Mental Suppression

  Posted on Wednesday December 9th, 2009 at 21:41 in Mental Illness, mind, behavior, studies, cognition, suppression, thought control, psychiatry & psychology, mental suppression

  Whatever you do, don’t think of a white bear. Go on, close your eyes, relax, but don’t think of a white bear… So, what happened? Most likely, you were overwhelmed by thoughts of a white bear. This mini-experiment highlights the fascinating para...

• Why So Serious About The Self?

  Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 06:00 in Mental Illness, mental health, research, behavior, studies, stigma, psychiatry & psychology

  You have seen movies in which characters have acted violently. Many times, these characters also have a mental illness. Violence is one common stereotype of psychological disorders, along with rebellion and child-like behavior. In The Dark Knightand ...

• Effect of Early Life Stress on Behavior and Cognition

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 07:00 in baby, depression, infant, adhd, stress, behavior, cognition, hypothalamus, fetus, adrenal, dysthymia, pituitary

  The human brain undergoes rapid development from late gestation to early childhood. The brain structures that are developing or undergoing age-related changes are more vulnerable to the effects of stress. Trauma at different time points in an individ...

• Social and Physical Pain Share Neural Architecture

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 08:00 in survival, behavior, pain, rejection, fmri, cerebellum, insula, frontal cortex, thalamus, neuroanatomy, neuroscience & neurology, social pain

  The old adage, “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me,” may be more defensive than accurate. Indeed, most languages rely on words that represent pain — hurt feelings, heartache, broken hearts — to communic...

• Emotions and the Brain

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 07:40 in MEN, women, Opinion, Emotions, psychiatry, brain, behavior, emotional, conditioned, compartmentalize, cognitive process

  I’ve recently started to think about emotions. I’m not a very emotional person. I guess I’m just like many other men. I admit that I’m stereotyping here so I hope you don’t mind. However, I often wonder why men and women tend to differ so m...

• Smoking Behavior and the Transtheoretical Model of the Stages of Change

  Posted on Sunday January 25th, 2009 at 10:13 in life, health, lifestyle, smoking, behavior, ttm, cessation, behavior change, biopsychosocial health, transtheoretical model

  Welcome to the New Year. Have you made any resolutions for 2009? Have you ever wondered what motivates people to change their behavior? There are some who are always seeking self-improvement. Others may feel content and they may see no reason to chan...

• Brain Blogging, Forty-Second Edition

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 08:43 in life, happiness, awareness, genes, autism, brain, behavior, suicide, study, stroke, neurology, brain blogging carnival

  Welcome to the forty-second edition of Brain Blogging. In this round, we discuss the profession of neurology, the transforming power of stroke, whether suicidal behaviors should make the DSM V, potential location of autism genes, and many more topics...

• Pulling Your Hair Out - Complexities of Trichotillomania

  Posted on Tuesday December 2nd, 2008 at 09:33 in depression, anxiety, children, Treatment, youth, therapy, research, hair, stress, body, behavior, study

  Many of us have felt overwhelming anxiety or worry that has made us want to “pull our hair out.” There is a real psychological disorder where sufferers actually yank out their hair as a result of unwanted emotions or feelings called trich...

• Giving Thanks All Year Long

  Posted on Sunday November 30th, 2008 at 11:28 in religion, life, Psychology, Spirituality, well-being, social, experience, gratitude, behavior, attitude, feelings, state

  The Roman philosopher Cicero postulated, “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” With Thanksgiving behind us, Americans were compelled to list all the things for which we were thankful. But, what...

• Are We Worshipping Celebrities or Heroes?

  Posted on Thursday November 20th, 2008 at 10:50 in health, celebrity, Psychology, smoking, Worship, stars, personality, behavior, borderline, neuroticism, psychiatry & psychology, parasocial relationship

  The American historian and educator Daniel Boorstin once wrote, “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.” We have just experienced an historic presidential campaign of unprecedented proportions, our economy is in peril, our military ...

• The Scent Trail - Encoding Memory

  Posted on Friday October 24th, 2008 at 10:54 in novel, memory, understanding, behavior, childhood, cerebral cortex, role, marcel proust, encoding, olfactory, behavioral changes, neuroscience & neurology

  Marcel Proust’s 3,200 page novel À la recherche du temps perdu has in it the famous scene where dipping pastry into his tea flooded him with his childhood memories. It was the odor which provoked it, and it has gone into psychoanalytical liter...

• Sleep Deprivation, Behavior, and the Young

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 10:37 in depression, work, coffee, insomnia, sleep, self esteem, stress, behavior, suicide, study, adolescents, sleep deprivation

  These days, sleep is often seen as an expendable resource. With so much work to do and limited time to accomplish tasks, going to sleep later and waking up earlier seems so natural. For some people, lack of sleep was used to prove toughness and stami...

• Cheating Husbands - What His Genes Tell Us

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 10:08 in relationships, activity, divorce, Emotions, genes, husband, man, brain, behavior, study, bonding, formation

  If you knew that your husband was twice as likely to be unfaithful in your marriage than another man, would you still marry him? Scientists have discovered a gene that may be able to tell just that. The question is: would you want to know if he had t...