Psychiatry and Psychology

What do you find the most interesting? For me, I enjoy/ am most interested in: Social Psych, Memory, and IO Psych (although I wont be able to take the IO Psych class until next fall! )

How gender can influence the intellectual properties of human?Anybody agree if I state here that girl is lack of creativity performance than a boy?

What do you guys make of neurodiversity --> http://neurodiversity.com/main.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurodiversity The wiki site gives a general discussion of it. Basically, in a nutshell, it is the notion that just as you can find slight physical differences in other people (e.g. different sizes, shapes, etc.), people are also born with differences in brain structure and the personality types inherent in them. Typically, most people who are mildly autistic, or have some related "disorders", usually embrace this idea. The general idea is that many people who are diagnosed with this and other problems are so because of societal problems than an…

It's kidna weird what I'm about to post (or ask), but it's something that's been happening quite often for the last two months. In the days when I get a lot of sleep (10 hours or more) I usually wake up very very sleepy and for another hour I just can't identify the word around me! I mean, I don't like talking, just sitting somewhere and staring at anything. In a word, sleepy! But in the days when I get little sleep (which is happening very frequently), 5 hours or less, I wake up completely sober! It looks kinda weird to me! I there a rational explanation for this, or this is something that is happening just to me??:D

When I was three years old, something odd happened to me and perhaps someone in this forum could explain it. I got up one morning and I couldn’t remember anything that had happened to me, neither the previous day, nor any day in my life. However, I knew my name, my age, who my father, mother, brother and rest of my family were, I could talk… Nobody could say that anything was different in me, but I wasn’t remembering anything. And I have never remembered again anything previous to that day, although I remember that day and I also remember more things than most of people do of the time I was three years old after that day.

Here's a clinical study from the The American Journal of Psychiatry regarding religious affiliation and suicide attempts. I find the results interesting:

Hi, I'm a horrible procrastinator. My habit is really getting me into trouble. I've been trying to stop procrastinating for a while now without success. My favorite activities to do when procrastinating on something far more important, were playing computer games, reading Slashdot, and watching TV. At the start of this semester, I pledged to give up computer games (which I have been playing since I can remember), reading Slashdot, and watching TV for the rest of the semester. I did manage to give these up, but found another way to procrastinate, reading SFN instead. Though I am happy I have exchanged brain rot for SFN, my idea that I would stop procrastinating if I h…

Why would a 2.5 yr old child be sticking long objects such as straws down her throat. The person describing this situation to me said she believes that there is a sexual connotation to this. She used the word "deepthroating". I've seen toddlers stick something into their mouth and misjudge how far they are sticking it in and gag on the object, but I never got the impression that there was anything sexual about it. The child in question is in a foster home because of parental abuse and neglect and is suffering from serious speech and developmental delays, caused no doubt, by the trauma of being removed from its parents and placed with strangers and the abuse …

Is there an experience available to us or any sentient kind of life which we can't conceive of with our thinking? Is there, in other words, an experience which "surpasseth all understanding"? What do EEG waves represent, or signify, since they are obviously evidence that there are patterns of activity, waves of electrical activity and signal processing. How much of this is our actual "conscious" awareness, and how much is our "unconscious" self (the one we are when we sleep). Can we 'hear' our own brains 'singing' to us?

Authority is something that we give more of (in observational terms) to a group than any individual. Therefore it must be a mistake to assign or invest absolute authority of any kind in a single individual. So why do we do it?

Language is a problem for Science. Because the idea is precision, and accuracy of observation (the act), this means that understanding of what is, in fact, being looked for, and how too 'see' it, are crucial to the methods employed. A scientist needs a bag of precision tools; ones which he is confident will prepare him with something with which he can do his job reliably; language, something everyone else (who may not be as concerned about their toolkit) uses, must be prepared similarly: jargon and terminology appear, and a model, an idea of the necessary work involved, is easier to construct for the practitioners of any method. All technological and research ende…

I don't know where to post this, but I think its more appropriate here. Last night I watched something about the human body and brain on National Geographic, and in it they did scans of people who meditate, such as Buddhist monks. What they revealed is that people who meditate can quite literally control their brain, and that the scans show that when they are meditating the left side of their brain lights up, and that there is better communication and coherence among the various brain structures. In addition, those who meditate are found to have bigger brains than those who don't, and that the brain does not deteriorate as much as one ages (which you can read mo…

Are we wrong to hate religions? Afterall they do a lot of good, and many followers do become more selfless people. Would the world be a worst place without religions?

What differences might a brain discriminate between natural pigments and JPEG copies of those same 'hues' on a screen. Or what difference the particular type of screen -plasma or lcd or analog might also make?

Hi, I'm an Honours psychology student, currently working on my dissertation - looking at whether colour can affect your free recall - and I am calling on you for help!! If you could spare five minutes of your time, I'd be very grateful! My experiment is online - which is why you can help. I have several conditions (associated with colour) in which you will can be assigned to by going to http://psych.squax.com/Start.php to get an "auth" code (which assigns your condition) and begin your experiment (alternatively you can email me at b00021378@student.paisley.ac.uk for this code). If you do decide to help me by taking part, you can have a copy of my results at the en…

Who has a good explanation for why we prefer watches and clocks that display the passage or progress of Time, as hands moving around a circular face -like a compass? Rather than numbers, or any other possible (especially nowadays) ways we can represent it (different colour changes, or sounds -which are only associated nowadays -we see the pointers on a face as the 'master' time)? What's so reassuring or compelling about hands, pointing at the current time of day? Even braille watches are like this, I believe, and most people who have a time display on their pc screen set it to a standard clock with a face.

I HAVE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE SEARCH OF STACY PETERSON, AS WAS WONDERING HOW THIS MAN'S MIND WORKS..HIS WORDS HAVE MADE HIM LOOK SO PECULIAR...I WAS WONDERING IF PEOPLE COULD HELP ME WITH THE CASE...

I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it......... http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1105072jenkem1.html

Hi there Years ago, I read somewhere that John F Kennedy had numerous different handwriting styles (17 rings a bell). Does anyone know what JFK's condition was called please? Thank you in advance.

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or not. i get urges to cut myself. so i use the scalpel i have to make some cuts on my arms. i am careful though not to cut too deep and damage arteries, tendons, and muscles. i find satisfaction in doing this. but i hide the cuts, especially from my parents. i don't want the trouble of answering their questions or explain myself. i don't even know why i do this. i can control these urges though. am i crazy?

The brain is capable of recursion, regression in upon itself, a re-entrant bootstrapping routine that loads another level of something we term “objectivity”, we "map" this to itself. We objectivise the world by projecting a memory, an image of some part of the external into our internal information "store". Although we don't well understand how our biochemical brains actually do this, we do understand information, and how it behaves.

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I just found a highly interesting article about the human perception of myths and falsehoods: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300933_pf.html In case the article vanishes or you can't read it, here are some key quotes: Wacky. It leaves the only option as "fight back, but very carefully." What will this mean for the popular understanding of science? Certainly we now realize that myths are deeply rooted in human psychology, and fighting them isn't as easy as saying "no, it's wrong." Now what? Now, where's the bugtracker for the human brain?

Some ideas to consider when postulating a response are..... 1. The ratio of atheist to theist charity workers and missionaries and why the path of atheism is so highly correlated with the path of egoism. 2. Many atheists (all the ones I know too) never even read a piece of literature from a religion or can recite a single verse from any of their texts nor have any sense of the practice what so ever. It's very common for individuals to abandon a faith they know absolutely nothing about and move to an ideology simply from a virtual feeling of doubt that is disconnected from any forms of premeditation that should of influenced that decision. A blind decision, yet …