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Jamie Talan
Reports on the decision of the Psychological Association, a group
of psychologists in the United States to join the American Federation of
Teachers to lobby against managed care. Implications of managed care on
income and autonomy of psychologists; Actions taken by psychologist and
lawyer Bryant Welch; Legislation on the liability of insurance companies
for harm done when they deny appropriate psychiatric care.
Reports that psychologists and other mental health providers are
not included in the plan of UnitedHealth Group, a health maintenance
organization (HMO), to put doctors in charge of health care. How the
American Psychological Association (APA) reacted to the issue; HMO sued
by the APA.
States that the location where people live does not affect their
level of happiness. Details on the study conducted by two researchers on
the college self-satisfaction in the two regions of the United
States.
Examines the possibility of mental illness among thinkers according
to psychiatrist Arnold Ludwig. Mental illness among actors and writers;
Findings on scientists.
Presents information on a computer program which could read facial
expressions developed by scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies in La Jolla, California. How the program was modeled by Paul
Ekman, a facial expert at the University of California; How the system
works.
Presents information on nerve cells growing in tissue taken from
the brains of elderly patients who died of cancer. Detection from the
hippocampus; Patients given a radioactive tag called bromodeoxyuridine
that highlights dividing cells; Possibility that cells could be replaced
by young neurons.
Good for the head, bad for the gut, MAOIs can be administered with
a
skin patch.
Focuses on the theory of Vilayanur Ramashandran of the University
of California in San Diego that somewhere in the brain's temporal lobes
there may be neural circuitry for religious experience. Basis of his
theory; Experiment supporting his theory; Implication of his theory about
religious experience.
What does
strep throathave in common
with anorexia?
Presents information as it pertains to Jay Giedd, psychiatrist at
B.F. Skinner, who conducts brain scan of his daughter Alexander every
three months. Background information on Alexander; Objectives of
conducting the brain scans; How Alexander views the procedure; Age at
which Alexander got her first brain scan; Findings of studies conducted
by Giedd; What findings indicated.
Feeling sluggish?
Stressmight be the
culprit.
Focuses on the psychological and physical signs displayed by
persons when they are angry of have been aggravated, while highlighting
the impact of hostile behavior on the heart and blood pressure rates.
Importance of controlling hostile impulses; Objectives of anger
management programs; Why person with heart problems should monitor their
hostile impulses.
Focuses on stone age artists, referencing their artistic works.
Suggestion that the fear in which these artists live under changed the
way they saw their subjects; How stone age artists stay alert; Highlight
of a study on remaining hunter-gatherer societies; Findings of the study;
Details on stone age art.
Provides information about fever. Brain process that results to
fever; Implication of having a fever; Reason why non-dangerously high
fever should be left unchecked; Benefits from unchecked fever.
