Cognitive Psychology
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Dugas, Michel J. & Robichaud, Melisa [Dugas, Michel J.]

Worry Awareness Training Once the first model has been presented (and the importance of worry underscored), the next phase is introduced; namely, worry awareness training. As mentioned beforehand, one must ...
( Category: Anxiety Disorders April 10,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Gary Wenk [Wenk, Gary]

SUMMARY Drugs that enhance the function of dopamine and norepinephrine (e.g., cocaine, mescaline, amphetamine, and its related chemicals such as ecstasy) produce a pleasurable feeling of euphoria and enhanced arousal; ...
( Category: Neurology March 31,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-11-04 | Author:Harrison, Guy P. [Harrison, Guy P.]

CONSPIRACY THEORIES I was fascinated by the speed of the conspiracy theories that were generated after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. Within days, if not hours, of ...
( Category: Cognitive March 29,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:Jonah Lehrer [Lehrer, Jonah]

In a second study, Jia found that Indiana University students were much better at solving a series of insight puzzles when told that the puzzles came from California and not ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-11-28 | Author:Valentino Braitenberg [Braitenberg, Valentino]

Figure zi Learning by internal repetition of one-time events. I is the input. D is the Darwinian brain which emits judgments on the desirability of the input and sets two ...
( Category: Cognitive March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-26 | Author:Redish, A. David

Player 1 cooperates Player 1 defects Player 2 cooperates Player 1 gets $50 Player 2 gets $50 Player 1 gets $80 Player 2 gets $0 Player 2 defects Player 1 ...
( Category: Psychiatry March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sam Parnia

CHAPTER 9 The Afterlife We Know FIREFIGHTER DON HERBERT WAS battling a raging fire inside a house in Buffalo, New York, on December 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed and ...
( Category: Cardiology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Deacon W. [W., Deacon, Terrence]

This complementarity of morphodynamic processes can produce far more than merely the creation of a kind of molecular bottle. Their reciprocity produces a special kind of emergent stability, unavailable to ...
( Category: Phenomenology March 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-26 | Author:Sharon Begley [Begley, Sharon]

Quieting the OCD Circuit As discussed in the two preceding chapters, scientists were piling up examples of how sensory input—signals carried into the brain from the outside world—can alter the ...
( Category: Neurology March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Jeffrey Fleishman [Fleishman, Jeffrey]

thirteen Kurt and I went back into my room. Vera was still sleeping, her macramé purse, the one with the gun in it, lay beside her on the bed. Kurt ...
( Category: Psychological March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-19 | Author:Shelley Carson [Carson, Shelley]

Dr. Paul Ellwood, Thomas Scully, and Joe Kanter In articulating such a vision, Dr. Ellwood stated, “The health system will continue to be out of control until we establish a ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-04 | Author:Scott Barry Kaufman [Kaufman, Scott Barry]

Some of the beekeepers are clever. Are all artists clever? One participant remarked, “I thought of all the little … artists in the room and imagined they all had beekeeper’s ...
( Category: Creativity & Genius March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-10-10 | Author:Daniel G. Amen, M.D.

5. TELL YOUR BRAIN WHAT YOU WANT, AND MATCH YOUR BEHAVIOR TO GET IT. Since your mind takes what it sees and makes it happen, it is critical to visualize ...
( Category: Neuropsychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Hood

Relativity in the Brain Dan Ariely is a behavioural economist from Duke University who makes the argument that humans are not only poor at risk analysis but they are, in ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-15 | Author:Kevin Dutton [Dutton, Kevin]

Generation Me I put it to Pinker, over lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club, that we’ve got a bit of a conundrum on our hands. On the one hand we ...
( Category: Pathologies March 26,2014 )