Psychiatry and Psychology

I have a dilemma. I have been homeschooled for most of my life, so I don't really know anybody my own age group. Now I am starting to take a single, early morning class with my age group. Now my question is; I would like to get to know some of the people in my class more. But since they do not know me that well, they kind of avoid me subconsciously. So how can I get to know people better without appearing awkward or intrusive?

I have been just wondering why neurons are so untouched for the long year of human. I replied to myself, it is because multiple of factors; sheath, cohesiveness, bury, surrounds. But, if cut, are they curable, after time? Or, then paralysis or death. I think there are millions of neurons in our bodies. Wouldn't it be more smart and suitable to take of remedy and protection medicals? Just recommending.

Something that is taken for granted , is a projection of the Nervous System - Proprioception . How fragile and ephemeral this can be , when a slight impairment could turn you into a ' Disembodied ' person . (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.) A Case Study - "The Disembodied Lady," a chapter from neurologist Oliver Sacks book "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" about a patient who lost her sense of proprioception. Looking forward to more views ..

How do you get consciousness from no consciousness? You can't. That's why molecules and atoms and particles themselves have to contain less than a single unit of consciousness. A single cell is the smallest singular unit of consciousness, but, 0+0 doesn't equal 1. Things like .5+.5=1, or .25+.25+.25+.25=1. But, this is pretty easy logic and it might help explain why quantum physics is so weird which is why I think it's been thought of before, so is there official quantitative any measurements of consciousness for things less than a single cell? I mean I know people who still think viruses are living things at least partially, but they're way smaller than bacterium even.…

for many years i had many tramas happen in my life it led to panic attacks for years and afriad to go from house finally some type of nervous breakdown i blackedout didnt no what was around me had hallsunations and such docs said id have to have meds all my life as they diagnosed me with clinical depression that one nite went beyond depression my mind cracked i feel

I'd like to know if there's a term for this specific situation. I'd google it, but I'm not sure how to phrase it so it makes sense. A person has been isolated from emotional and/or physical interaction with other people, for a long period of time. And then another random person arrives and interacts with them, and just based on that this is the first person to be a part of their life, they become infatuated - believe they've fallen in love with this person. Is this just a variation of Stockholm Syndrome? Or does it have its own name?

Came across this line referring to Freud's method of treatment - ' Lying down promotes a loss of control that encourages more instinctive conversation . ' If true , what could be the Neurological basis for the change effected by the Posture . Thanks .

Recently started volunteering at a brain injury center and was surprised at the number of people with brain injury and a concurrent mental illness. Several individuals have expressed to me that their MRI and CT scans showed little or no evidence of a traumatic brain injury but before there accidents they had no symptoms ranging from emmotional outbursts to psychosis to severe depression. So the question is sice modern science shows no evidence of brain injury but the psychiatric portion of medical science supports the theory........who is right? Did the injury cause the mental illness? perhaps this should be in a different area of the forum but if the scans show…

Greetings, I recently completed work on a laborious project that I am quite excited about: A Soundtrack to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. I joined this forum to share this project because I think that most you will find it's premise interesting and, ultimately, with hopes of spreading word about this very unique release. The Soundtrack is comprised of interpretations of 10 disorders from the DSM-IV as performed by a series of randomly created groups. Although the groups had time to read about, and discuss, the disorder they were assigned, the performances themselves were entirely improvised. Our aim in approaching this concept was to n…

i'm particularly interested in serotonin, but also in dopamine and norepinephrine

Dear all, I am urgently search for some more participants to finish my PhD study. At the moment I am running an online survey about the professional life in Europe and Amerika and need some more American working adults to take part in this short survey. It lastes a maximum of 5 minutes and is completly anonymous. Here is the link to the survey: http://www.unipark.de/uc/professional_life/ Thank you very much for your Help!

What do you know about Borderline Personality Disorder? I recently learned a friend of mine has it, so I thought it might help to know more about it, like what kinds of problems people with it have and more about how it's treated. Any advice you might have would be appreciated too.

I was thinking the other day about this, specifically what makes someone insane rather than just habitually weird. Take for example a man who dresses up in a scary clown suit and sits in a park perhaps, from his perspective he is attention seeking and is amused by the way people react to seeing him, to anyone else he seems to be insane. That is just the first example I can think of, but I see lots of strange looking/acting people who have weird habits (and I imagine philosphies), but where is the line between someone who's a "weirdo" and someone who is insane? When does your view of the world become so different from everyone elses that you should be labelled insane? Why …

My name is Alexis and I am doing research for a new documentary series. We're interested in where the line between human and animal exists, and we want to tell the stories of anyone who's life might make you question this. The concept is very new, and we're just getting started, so I'm just reaching out to people to see if they are interested in chatting about the subject. At this point I'm just researching, and trying to get a sense of the different communities that are out there, what's important to them, how they feel about media exposure, bad press they've received in the past, and things like that. We're interested in a huge variety of topics right now, …

Here is the news: Longitudinal evidence that fatherhood decreases testosterone in human males In species in which males care for young, testosterone (T) is often high during mating periods but then declines to allow for caregiving of resulting offspring. This model may apply to human males, but past human studies of T and fatherhood have been cross-sectional, making it unclear whether fatherhood suppresses T or if men with lower T are more likely to become fathers. Here, we use a large representative study in the Philippines (n = 624) to show that among single nonfathers at baseline (2005) (21.5 ± 0.3 y), men with high waking T were more likely to become partnered…

I'm interested in reading a book about how the mind of a young child develops, and I found this one on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Your-Childs-Growing-Mind-Development/dp/0767916158/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314986650&sr=1-2 I was wondering if anyone could recommend this book, or some other book that is easily accessible (not a technical book or textbook) that discusses the subject of how a young child (anywhere from 1-10 years) grows, learns, reasons, understands things around him, etc. I have to admit the description of the above book sounds perfect, but I wanted to ask here anyway. Thanks, John

I've heard on the internet rumours that police and career criminals have nearly identical psychological profiles and I wondered if it was true? If it is could someone link me to an article that says more?

Every day we make thousands of tiny predictions -- when the bus will arrive, who is knocking on the door, whether the dropped glass will break. Now, in one of the first studies of its kind, researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are beginning to unravel the process by which the brain makes these everyday prognostications. While this might sound like a boon to day traders, coaches and gypsy fortune tellers, people with early stages of neurological diseases such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases could someday benefit from this research. In these maladies, sufferers have difficulty segmenting events in their environment from the normal str…

hello. i'll try to make this short and sweet but im in need of serious help. im not a scientist, maybe my own pharmacist, but definately not a scientist. my brief history is that ive been suffering from severe depression and anxiety maybe as young as the age of 10. by 15 i began self mutilating myself, saw a psychologist... nothing helped. by 23 i was but on 50mg of zoloft and 0.5mg of xanax. it helped for alil while. decided i needed to see a psychiatrist. whithin the first visit she had me on zyprexa, paxil, zoloft, and klonopin. i was a walking zombie. checked myself into the psych ward at a nearby hospital after trying to come off these psycho-pharmacueticals... all …

Hello I am a PhD student at Swinburne University (Australia) and I am conducting a study on identity and peoples response to others. If you would like to participate in real psychology research or have an interest in social/cognitive psychology, click the hyperlink. Clicking the link will also lead to a more detailed summary of the project which you can read before participating. Kind Regards Natasha Katopodis http://opinio.online.swin.edu.au/s?s=10681

What is the region of the brain or chemicals in the brain that we can see emotion or thinking.And can we use electrode or drug to increase or degrees the emotion or thinking. Why do some people have anger or depression what is wong with their brain and when does it become a disorder.They say dopamine release the pleasure center of brain and food ,drugs or alcohol release dopamine . People that suffer from very bad addictions say the brain lacks dopamine and the drugs or alcohol acts as a cap for bad brain that lacks the dopamine other say it is in the genes. But no one has measured what causes anger or depression or emotion like love.Why do we not do brai…

How easy is it to falsify memory? New research at the Weizmann Institute shows that a bit of social pressure may be all that is needed. The study, which appears in the journal Science, reveals a unique pattern of brain activity when false memories are formed -- one that hints at a surprising connection between our social selves and memory. The experiment, conducted by Prof. Yadin Dudai and research student Micah Edelson of the Institute's Neurobiology Department with Prof. Raymond Dolan and Dr. Tali Sharot of University College London, took place in four stages. In the first, volunteers watched a documentary film in small groups. Three days later, they returned to the…

I am Vanessa Smithies, a Doctor of Psychology (Clinical Neuropsychology) candidate from the School of Psychology and Psychiatry at Monash University, Australia. I am investigating the influence that MDMA/Ecstasy use has on a function called sleep consolidated learning. Put simply, this is the process whereby our memories are enhanced and strengthened during a period of sleep. My main aim is to investigate whether memory improvement after sleep is altered in MDMA/Ecstasy users. I will also investigate whether there are any factors that contribute to this alteration (for example, mood). This is a questionnaire with a difference – it has an experimental component ask…

Hi every one, I am interested as to whether any one knows of/ what causes this phenomenon. I always wanted to ask the vision science professors in uni but thought they might think i was a bit strange haha. Basically anything coloured red or orange that is in my peripheral vision flashes constantly. For example I am sitting at my desk now and there is a red plastic flower to my left that is flashing (I will turn it round the other way soon, it gets annoying!) yet there is a bright pink photo frame next to it that doesn't do the same. If i'm reading and there's something red lower on the page it will flash like mad. I also avoid orange highlighters when i'm doing work! Does…

According to this article just published, after decades of relative stability, the values typically learned by teenagers from television took a sharp dive, from being high on empathy and kindness to dominated by narcism and fame. Out with Full House and That Seventy's Show, and in with Hannah Montana and American Idol. The first thing that sticks out to me is that these shows don't seem like they could be that bad, though I have never seen either of them. The odd thing about this study is that this phenomenon seemingly affected us overnight. While we all sat around expecting the world to drift into self-centeredness, it didn't really seem to have that effect until aft…