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Recently, a reporter asked me, "Is it true that we only use 10 percent of our brain?" As a neurologist, I reassured her that this idea is patently false. It's unclear how this myth came to be so widely propagated.Most often, its origin is attributed to William James, a Harvard psychologist, philosopher and physician.
:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marie-pasinski-md/bust-a-myth-boost-your-br_b_860923.htmlRecently, a reporter asked me, "Is it true that we only use 10 percent of our... more
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The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is a 40-year-old incident. But the case on Sirhan Sirhan is still continuing. Officials have recently rejected his parole again. The officials told that he has not given enough contribution to solve the case. The assassination had changed the history of US. Hearing was done in a small hearing room of prison. During this hearing, Sirhan told the officials of board that he had regret for the assassination but recalling the memories of 42-year-old incident is not an easy task to do for him.The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is a 40-year-old incident. But the case on... more
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www.EileenKennedyMoore.com, NJ psychologist (lic #4254), co-author of: SMART PARENTING FOR SMART KIDS: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential (Jossey-Bass/Wiley)www.EileenKennedyMoore.com, NJ psychologist (lic #4254), co-author of: SMART PARENTING... more
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Dr. Lydia S. Glass is a divorce mediator and a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Therapist with a private practice in Pasadena, California. Dr. Glass works with adults and adolescents in individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, and family therapy.
http://www.lydiaglass.comDr. Lydia S. Glass is a divorce mediator and a licensed clinical psychologist and... more
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The Correctional Services of Canada hired a psychologist to figure out the exact reason, The psychologist also stated that the prison staff told Dr. Margo that SmithThe Correctional Services of Canada hired a psychologist to figure out the exact... more
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The way people cope with diabetes-related foot ulcers and their levels of depression, affect how their wound heals or worsens, found a study by a health psychologist at The University of Nottingham.
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Melyssa Ford, the Canadian model and actress was born in November 1976 in Toronto, Ontario. Melyssa Ford, a forensic psychologist from York University is also referred as Jessica RabbitMelyssa Ford, the Canadian model and actress was born in November 1976 in Toronto,... more
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It is reported, (from tapes obtained by ITV news) Raoul Moat asked social services about psychiatric help for his emotional state. From the article, it sounds like the tapes were recordings related to checking if it was safe for Moats' children to live/visit him (the tapes date from July 2009 to April 2010).
"In one conversation he said: "I'm quite emotionally unstable you know, I get myself over-the-top happy sometimes. And I have my bad days, you know.
"The more you block things out, the more numb you become in the heart you know. You get to a point where happiness to you is just like, you know, neither here nor there."
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In one recording - made by Moat in August 2009 during a meeting with a social worker - the gunman said: "I would like to have a psychiatrist, psychologist, have a word with me regularly, on a regular basis, to see if there's somewhere underlying like where I have problem that I haven't seen."-BBC.
After being released from prison Raoul Moat killed one person and attempted to kill two other people leaving them badly injured. He was then on the run from police which ended after a 6 hour stand off where Moat shot himself.It is reported, (from tapes obtained by ITV news) Raoul Moat asked social services... more
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An antigay psychologist who testified for Florida in the state’s gay adoption case took a trip to Europe with a gay male prostitute from Miami but says no illegal behavior or sex occurred.
BY STEVE ROTHAUS - May 6th, 2010
A nationally known antigay psychologist who testified for the state in its defense of Florida’s gay-adoption ban recently took a trip to Europe with a gay male prostitute from Miami who advertised himself online.
George A. Rekers — an officer of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) and a retired University of South Carolina professor — hired the young escort known as Geo on Rentboy.com , a gay-sex website.
The Miami New Times website reported the story Monday, and it quickly went viral on the Internet. By Wednesday, Rekers had taken down his Facebook page and Geo had removed his Rentboy profile.
Both Rekers and Geo, who declined to give his real name, deny they had a sexual relationship during their 10-day journey to Spain and England.
“In all honesty, I did go on the trip with him,” Geo, 20, told The Miami Herald on Wednesday. “He was setting me up as a companion. In all honesty, he’s a very kind, family-values man.”
Rekers, 61, said via e-mail that he hired Geo as “an assistant to lift his luggage in his travels because of an ongoing condition following surgery.”
He added: “Dr. Rekers found his recent travel assistant by interviewing acquaintances. There was nothing inappropriate with this relationship. Professor Rekers was not involved in any illegal or sexual behavior with his travel assistant.”
Geo says Rekers — the father of three grown sons — hired him to carry luggage, be a companion and to translate Spanish to English during their time in Spain.
“Nor did he pay me enough” for sex, Geo said.
“I was getting about $75 a day,” Geo said, adding that he and his friends usually charge $300 to $500 a day for sex.
Geo said he is a Miami Dade College student who became a prostitute to pay his bills. “I was just trying to get through school,” he said. “I think I’m going to have drop my classes.”
Geo’s parents know he’s gay, but not that he’s an escort. “Who the hell wants to tell them I was doing this stuff?” he said. “I come from a very conservative Spanish family.”
Rekers, a founder of the conservative Family Research Council who believes homosexuality is a sin, is well-known for his antigay stance. In 1989, he and Jerry Regier — later secretary of the Florida Department of Children & Families — co-wrote an essay entitled The Christian World View of the Family, which railed against abortion and gay couples forming families, and emphasized that husbands have “final say in any family dispute.”
The state of Florida recently paid him about $60,000 to be an expert witness against gay adoption in the case of Frank Gill, a gay foster parent seeking to adopt two young brothers. Florida is the only state that bans all gay people from adopting.
In November 2008, Miami-Dade Judge Cindy Lederman awarded custody of the two boys to Gill. In her final judgment, Lederman wrote:
“Dr. Rekers’ testimony was far from a neutral and unbiased recitation of the relevant scientific evidence. Dr. Rekers’ beliefs are motivated by his strong ideological and theological convictions that are not consistent with the science. Based on his testimony and demeanor at trial, the court can not consider his testimony to be credible nor worthy of forming the basis of public policy.”
The Florida Attorney General’s Office has appealed Lederman’s ruling, and a decision is expected anytime.
On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum would not comment about Reker. A NARTH office worker also declined to speak.
Gay activists seized the opportunity, though.
Wayne Besen, executive director of Truth Wins Out, a national group that opposes the ex-gay movement, said it doesn’t matter whether Rekers and Geo had a sexual relationship.
“Who cares? It’s even creepier if they didn’t have sex,” said Besen, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale. “If you go to Rentboy.com to have the company of a sex worker and not have sex, I think that shows a pattern of repression and delusion. That’s just not normal behavior.
“Rekers is driving the story right now with his comical denial. He could have just as easily given someone a big tip to carry his bags, like everyone else does.”
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You've probably heard about Constance McMillen by now. She's the openly-gay high school senior who wanted to take her girlfriend to the high school prom at Itawamba High School in northern Mississippi. The principal told the girls that all prom couples have to be boy-girl. Ms. McMillen called the ACLU, which threatened the school with legal action. In response, the school board canceled the prom. The ACLU then asked U.S. District Court Judge Glen Davidson to intervene and reinstate the prom. The judge ruled that although the school had violated Ms. McMillen's civil rights, he wouldn't force them to hold a prom. On Friday, April 2, Ms. McMillen attended an alternative prom at the Fulton County Country Club. According to the Associated Press, her girlfriend's parents wouldn't allow the 16-year-old girlfriend to go, so McMillen escorted another young woman instead. To make the story even worse, it turns out that the alternative prom at the Fulton County Country Club was a fake, with only seven kids attending, according to McMillen. The real prom, i.e. the prom which most of the seniors attended, was held at a still-undisclosed location, and McMillen wasn't invited.
The story continues to attract national attention because it's just so darn quaint. Imagine: there are still people who get upset when they see girls kissing other girls! Who knew?
Psychologist John Buss estimates that for most of human history, perhaps 2% of women have been lesbian or bisexual (see note 1, below). Not any more. Recent surveys of teenage girls and young women find that roughly 15% of young females today self-identify as lesbian or bisexual, compared with about 5% of young males who identify as gay or bisexual (see note 2, below).
As a physician and a psychologist, what I found missing in the noise surrounding the Constance McMillen story was any serious discussion of why a growing number of girls self-identify as lesbian or bisexual. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as Seinfeld might say. But why are young women today at least three times more likely than their brothers to identify as bisexual or homosexual? "I kissed a girl and I liked it," Katy Perry told us in her #1 hit single. Megan Fox, Lindsay Lohan, Lady Gaga, Anna Paquin, Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore - they all want us to know that they are bisexual. There is no comparable crowd of young male celebrities rushing to assure us that they go both ways. Imagine a young man singing "I kissed a boy and I liked it." Would that song reach #1 on the charts? Why not?
Why is it OK for girls to be bisexual or homosexual, but not boys?
Over the past seven years, I've posed this question to hundreds of teenagers and young adults across the United States. The most common answer I get isn't really an answer. "Girls kiss other girls at parties because guys like it," one teenage girl told me. "It makes the guys hoot and holler, so the girls do it again. They're just doing it for attention. It's not for real."
I point out, as gently as I can, that that response doesn't answer my question. Pretending to be lesbian or bisexual doesn't explain why a growing proportion of young women are lesbian or bisexual.
Or does it?
Female sexuality is different from male sexuality. If a straight boy kissed another boy, perhaps to amuse some girls who might be watching, he would be unlikely to undergo a change in sexual orientation as a result. But, as Professor Roy Baumeister at Florida State University and others have shown, sexual attraction in many women seems to be more malleable (see note 3 below). If a teenage girl kisses another teenage girl, for whatever reason, and she finds that she likes it - then things can happen, and things can change. If a young woman finds her soulmate, and her soulmate happens to be female, then she may begin to experience feelings she's never felt before.
Especially if all the guys she knows are losers.
Which brings me to the second point I've encountered in my interviews with young people. Twenty years ago, when I opened my practice in a suburb of Washington DC, it was rare to find 14-year-old boys who were looking at pornography every day. Today it's common, in fact it's becoming the norm. When I meet with a group of 14-year-old boys and I ask them, "how many of you guys subscribe to a porn site?", all hands go up. I don't believe them. But today, no boy wants to admit that he's the weirdo who doesn't look at online porn. Twenty years ago, hardcore pornography was tucked away in adult bookstores. Today any 14-year-old can access such photos online in seconds. Role models for young men, from pop singer John Mayer to the 2009 World Series MVP Hideki Matsui, talk openly about their collections of porn (see note 4, below).
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Therapist Billed Insurer for Sex, Patient Says
By ROBERT KAHN
(CN) - A woman claims her psychologist had sex with her in his office while treating her for depression, "on a weekly, and at times, a daily frequency," and had the brass to bill her insurance company for the "treatments." And she says he "committed further acts of professional malpractice by voluntarily ingesting plaintiff's psychotropic medications during their sexual encounters to 'enhance' his sexual gratification with plaintiff."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/08/24479.htmMonday, February 08, 2010
Therapist Billed Insurer for Sex, Patient Says
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University of Pennsylvania Clinical psychologist, Dr. Mary Riggs Cohen, and her former patient, Jacob Heinz, share their thoughts about what it means to live with the silent disability called ASPERGER SYNDROME (ALSO CALLED HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM), a neurological disorder of the brain. Jacob Heinz was jailed in 2006 in a Bensalem, Pennsylvania Police Department sting operation via myspace.com where officers posed as a 13 year old girl and had sexual conversations. Given the skyrocketing autism epidemic bedeviling the United States, are adult men and women with asperger syndrome more likely to commit sexual crimes than others?University of Pennsylvania Clinical psychologist, Dr. Mary Riggs Cohen, and her former... more
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AUDIO PODCAST: There are a lot of good guys out there when it comes to attorneys, mediators, and psychologists. The fact is, we know quite a few of them and we brought two well-known professionals on the air to discuss in detail the emotional, psychological, and legal aspects of hiring someone to represent oneself in a divorce and child custody proceeding. There are a ton of options, things to know, and tips to be aware of. Although many lawyers were horrified that we did an episode titled this, but … this is about the parents, children, and process as much as the lawyers and other professionals.AUDIO PODCAST: There are a lot of good guys out there when it comes to attorneys,... more
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Scientists have confirmed the popular belief that without anything to guide them humans really do walk in circles.
The research, originally commissioned by a popular science TV program in Germany, is published in the journal Current Biology.
Psychologist and author Dr Jan Souman, of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, says it's well known that people can walk in a straight line if they are in a known environment.
"But I was trying to simulate what happens when you get lost and try to find your way out," he says.
Volunteers were dropped off, in either the desert or forest, and shown which direction to walk towards, he says.
"They walked for about four hours."
Dr Souman says those people walking in the forest, on a day when the sun was visible, were able to use it as a guide.
"They walked basically perfectly straight," he says.
But when the sun disappeared, Dr Souman says, the volunteers walked in circles.
Dr Souman says in the desert volunteers walking when the sun was visible didn't walk in a straight line, but instead veered slightly to the left or right.
"This is probably because in the desert there is nothing to give you a reference."
He says at night, without the assistance of the moon, the volunteers didn't walk in exact circles either.
"One guy turned completely back around on himself so he was going the opposite way he started."
Dr Souman says he can't really explain why people don't walk in a straight line when they have nothing to guide them, but he has a hunch.
"If you are walking blindfolded the only information you've got to tell if you're walking straight comes from your body, the information from your muscle and joint movement."
But this information is 'noisy' or has errors, he says.
"Normally we don't notice these errors because we can correct them by looking where we are going."
But Dr Souman says even with sight, these errors build up over time and what we think is straight ahead isn't anymore.Scientists have confirmed the popular belief that without anything to guide them... more
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http://www.biogetica.com - Does mood create chemical secretions or do chemical secretions create mood? Should we alter mood by using neuro-transmitor altering drugs or should we correct chemical imbalances subtly by reminding the body of optimal function? Depression is an amazing opportunity to demonstrate holistic sciences. Sarcodes which are informational and energetic imprints of optimal function can be used to remind the body of optimal function and rid it of depression forever. Your SOUL knows perfect function and It can remind the body of it. There is an intelligence in all nature that makes our bodies the most advanced pharmacies in the world. Discover ways where you can harmonize with the life force and live in equilibrium.http://www.biogetica.com - Does mood create chemical secretions or do chemical... more
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More and more brides are suffering from what has become known as "post-nuptial depression" due to their unrealistic expectations of married life.
Psychologists claim that roughly 10% of newly married women are seeking counselling.
Some are relying on marriage guidance websites for reassurance on what the should expect after the excitement of the wedding day has worn off.More and more brides are suffering from what has become known as "post-nuptial... more
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Voles who became separated from a mate produced higher levels of a chemical that has been linked to depression. Losing a partner 'has a dramatic impact on the brain,' one of the study's authors says.
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Working with mouse-like rodents called prairie voles, scientists have found that close monogamous relationships alter the chemistry of the brain, fostering the release of a compound that builds loyalty, but also plays a role in depression during times of separation.
The scientists found that after four days away from their mates, male voles experienced changes in the emotional center of their brains, causing them to become unresponsive and lethargic. When given a drug that blocked the changes, however, lonely voles emerged from their funk.
The same loyalty chemical is found in human brains, and scientists said the research could provide insight into treating human grief and separation.
"Whenever you form a pair bond, it changes your neurochemistry," said Larry J. Young, a neuroscientist at Emory University and an author of the study. "If you lose that partner, it has a dramatic impact on the brain."
Experts noted that human relationships are more complex than animal bonds and involve culture, socialization and rational thought. Thus, there may be little to learn from the depressed voles.
"When humans grieve they don't just give up and sit like lumps," George Bonanno, a psychologist at Columbia University's Teachers College who studies the process of bereavement. "They have purposeful behavior even when they are feeling lousy."
Still, Young said the experiment might help explain the longing people feel for partners who are absent or who die. The study, published Wednesday in the journal Neurospychopharmacology, might also shed light on why couples remain in relationships that are bad for them, he said.
Prairie voles, which are found in the wild through much of North America, are used to study monogamy because they are among the few animals that pair up like humans. Although the voles may occasionally stray from the nest, they eventually return to their lifelong partners to help raise litter after litter.
The brain chemical corticotropin-releasing factor, or CRF, has a key role in maintaining those loyal bonds, researchers found.
After separating nine male voles from their partners, Young and colleagues from Emory and the University of Regensburg in Germany subjected the animals to tests measuring their ability to cope with stress.
When placed in a pool of water, the voles passively floated instead of trying to swim. In a second test, the animals failed to struggle when suspended by their tails.
The animals displayed "depressive behaviors," Young said. "They become more passive, more likely to give up."
When researchers killed the voles and looked inside their brains, they found elevated levels of CRF, which is known to have a role in depression.
A control group of 10 male voles that had been separated from a male sibling displayed no depressive behaviors or increases in CRF, researchers said, indicating there was something special about monogamous bonds.
Voles that received a drug that blocked CRF behaved normally when separated from their female mates, according to the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, and other research organizations and foundations.
Several pharmaceutical companies are developing drugs that act on CRF as treatments for depression and anxiety-related disorders.
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Men who grow up thinking women should stay at home may be labelled "old-fashioned" - but could end up well ahead in the salary stakes.
A US study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, suggests that they will consistently out-earn more "modern-thinking" men.
On average, this meant an extra $8,500 (£4,722) a year.
One UK psychologist said men inclined to wield power in their relationships might also do this at work.
The study, carried out by researchers at the University of Florida, was conducted on a large scale, with 12,686 men and women interviewed in 1979, when they were aged between 14 and 22, and three times in the following two decades, the last time in 2005.
The researchers asked them whether they believed a woman's place was in the home, or whether the employment of women was likely to lead to higher rates of juvenile delinquency.
Predictably, more men tended to hold these views than women, although the gap has narrowed significantly over time.
However, when the men were asked about their salaries, another gap emerged, with those holding "traditional" views earning significantly more.
Conversely, women who held the opposite view did earn slightly more, on average $1,500 (£833) more than women with "traditional" views.
Dr Timothy Judge, one of the researchers, said: "More traditional people may be seeking to preserve the historical separation of work and domestic roles - our results prove that is, in fact, the case."
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