[This is Part IV of Making a Psychologist. In the last two posts, I described how to create an app that continuously records data from your phone, then interprets that raw data as a series of behavioral “episodes”.…
This is Part III of Making a Psychologist, a blog series describing how to passively collect continuous real-world behavioral data then build algorithms to predict future actions and mental states.…
This is part 2 of Making a Psychologist, a blog series written in part to promote my good new textbook, Fundamentals of Biological Psychology: A Critical Perspective.…
Groups grew out of years of watching real groups struggle and succeed. The aim was to create something you could use in the room, in real time, and not just cite in a paper.…
[This is Part 1 of a blog series called Making a Psychologist—about how AI is enablingscientists, big tech companies, and obscure Redditors alike to build systems that aresimultaneously horrifically invasive, but also enormously powerful, and if we’re lucky, verygood for our well-being.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for December is ‘Enhancing the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses‘ and the blog is written by authors Rebecca Strawbridge, Deepika Sharma, Steve Kisely, Ioana A.…
The fully updated second edition covers all major methods including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, multimodal imaging, and brain stimulation methods.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for September is ‘A better future for mental health science‘ and the blog is written by author Niall Boyce and the article is published in The British Journal of Psychiatry.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for August is ‘Feasibility and acceptability of a solution-focused approach to strengthen lay counselling for common mental disorders (DIALOG+) in Pakistan: mixed methods study‘, written by authors Saniya Saleem, Anayat Baig, Onaiza Qureshi, Sana Sajun, Victoria Bird, Stefan Priebe and Aneeta Pasha.…
The RCPsych Article of the Month for June is ‘Subjective, behavioural and physiological correlates of stress in women using hormonal contraceptives‘ and the blog is written by authors Zoé Bürger and the article is published in The British Journal of Psychiatry Despite their widespread use, we still know surprisingly little about how hormonal contraceptives affect the body’s response to stress.…
Cross-cultural research in the social sciences is expanding rapidly, helping us understand how different cultures shape human behaviour. But here’s the big question: Are the tools we use actually measuring what we think they are in diverse populations? This issue of construct validity—ensuring research instruments truly capture what they are meant to—becomes even more complicated when studying children in diverse cultural settings. Our recent paper, Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement, reveals why this matters and how researchers can (try to, at least!) get it right
Mental healthcare in the UK is in crisis. As many of us know and have experienced, psychiatry in the UK has formed a bias towards reductive, individualistic and superficial approaches to defining mental distress. All whilst failing to foster deep, long-term authentic, caring relationships, and defaulting to an overly biomedical approach to management.
A study conducted at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte) revealed that the dehumanization of informal caregivers and individuals’ perceptions of justice can contribute to the devaluation of informal caregivers’ suffering.
Motives are fundamental to our daily functioning, representing the desirable or undesirable goals that initiate and guide our behaviors. There are very few actions that cannot be linked to a personal motive. An example of this is innate reflexes, such as sucking and swallowing, which are automatic, involuntary behaviors essential for survival and not influenced by personal motives or learned experiences. In contrast, most human behaviors are driven by motives of varying nature.
The paper ‘Variables Associated with Emotional Symptom Severity in Primary Care Patients: The Usefulness of a Logistic Regression Equation to Help Clinical Assessment and Treatment Decisions’ by Ángel Aguilera-Martín, Mario Gálvez-Lara, Roger Muñoz-Navarro, César González-Blanch, Paloma Ruiz-Rodríguez, Antonio Cano-Videl and Juan Antonio Moriana, published in The Spanish Journal of Psychology, has been chosen as the Editor’s Choice Article for December 2023.…
Grandmothers often help the mother-child dyad, but when does this help start? In our lives, we may see many people increase helping behaviors towards a close friend or family member when she has a child to offset her increasing needs. From an evolutionary perspective, these kin and non-kin helpers (or ‘allomothers’) buffer maternal workloads to increase the health and survival of the mother-child dyad. One critical category of allomother that has been studied extensively is grandmothers because of their child-care expertise as well as their often close geographic proximity and emotional connections to the dyad. Much of the research has focused on this allomaternal help at weaning, or more generally, after the child is born. However, given recent evidence that maternal conditions during pregnancy can alter birth outcomes and increase the risk of postnatal morbidities, more evolutionary research is needed to explore prenatal allomaternal effects.
The paper ‘Adolescent Involvement in Cybergossip: Influence on Social Adjustment, Bullying and Cyberbullying’ by Cristina María García-Fernández, Miriam Moreno-Moya, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz, and Eva M.…
The September Article of the Month from The Spanish Journal of Psychology is entitled Struggling to Fix Teams in Real Work Settings: A Challenge Assessment and an Intervention Toolbox by Carlos-María Alcover, Ramón Rico, and Michael West.…
Evolution has shaped women’s ovulatory cycles to be characterised by complex recurring physiological processes of changing hormones and organ tissue. However, these changes often bring about unwanted aspects – be it premenstrual symptoms such as mood swings, feeling bloated or anxious, menstrual pain, or – still way too often – menstrual shame.…
The awareness that our lives can be abruptly shortened or seriously disrupted by unforeseen circumstances is a wake-up call that requires each of us to reflect on how we spend our time. …
This week we are carrying on our deep dive into Hot Topics from Cambridge, focusing on our Mental Health collection, in connection with Mental Health Awareness Week.…
In recent years, numerous organisations have been implementing unconscious bias training, with the aim of enhancing diversity and inclusion. This has become particularly important in view of the Black Lives Matter movement.…
Hillary Clinton was a leader who lusted. Not all leaders are lustful – in fact, most are not. Moreover, those who do lust crave different things.…
A pandemic fueled by wishful thinking and irresponsible choices. Racial injustice exacerbated by self-serving motives that inhibit empathy and compassion. Catastrophic climate changes accelerated by a lack of commitment to the well-being of those beyond our immediate experience.…
What is your current job title both within Experimental Results and outside of the journal? Where are you based in the world?…
This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…
This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…
This is the latest of an ongoing series of interviews with people involved with our new Open Access journal, Experimental Results – a forum for short research papers from experimental disciplines across Science, Technology and Medicine, providing authors with an outlet for rapid publication of small chunks of research findings with maximum visibility.…
Jenn and I sat across from each other at a wooden table in a light filled café in central Oklahoma, discussing yet another incidence of sexual assault on a college campus.…
This year Mental Illness Awareness Week is observed on 7-18 October, with the overall objective of raising awareness of mental illness, fighting stigma and advocating for equal care.…
Given the high prevalence of mental disorders, it is unfortunate that public’s knowledge about mental disorders has generally lagged behind that for major physical diseases.…
The Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine (IJPM) is proud to participate in this year’s Mental Illness Awareness Week (7-13 Oct, 2018).…
Mental health problems in childhood and adolescence are increasingly the object of preferential study by Spanish professionals. Sensitivity towards cases of child abuse both within the domestic and institutional sphere has grown enormously and has produced a preferential attention towards the associated mental disorders and their consequences, such as suicidal behavior.…
When I first took over as Editor-in-Chief of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT), I was extremely excited to hear that there was already a planned (and almost completed) forthcoming Special Issue on Complexity in Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (CBT) being Guest Edited by Claire Lomax and Stephen Barton from Newcastle University, UK (Lomax & Barton, 2017).…
Our last issue of JMO for 2017 was running a bit late but this special issue on Indigenous Entrepreneurship is well worth the wait.…
Management has always been an eclectic area to research and practice. It collects and draws together theories and practices from sociology through to anthropology and even engineering.…
The Journal of Smoking Cessation has published a new review of evidence that texting can be integrated in to smoking cessation programmes, which can help to maintain instant contact with clients and provide useful guidance for relapse prevention.…
The December Nutrition Society Paper of the Month is from Nutrition Research Reviews and is entitled ‘Food-derived serotonergic modulators: effects on mood and cognition’ Food is a primary requirement to live.…
My name is Pam Myles and I am the new Editor-in-Chief for the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT), an e-journal published by Cambridge Journals for the BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies).…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
As Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' reaches cinemas, explore the scholarship behind one of history's most enduring and influential stories.
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past in ways that were unimaginable just a few decades ago.…
A few months ago, we responded to a call for papers for a themed issue for Advances in Archaeological Practice entitled “Advances in Archaeological Labor Management.”…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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