End the Stigma

A while back, I bookmarked an interesting article (pdf link) that I’ve been meaning to write about. As I haven’t had a chance to really digest the material and compose a longer entry, I thought I just get it up on the site for wider consumption. The gist of the research highlighted therein is that [...]

As I was digging through the articles I’ve collected to read and post about, I came across this one. The study described in the article was a large multi-site data analysis in which adolescents with a Major Depressive Episode were followed-up over the course of several years after treatment. The researchers found that: recovery rates were [...]

“When reminded of an immoral deed, people are motivated to experience physical pain.” This is the opening line of the discussion section in a recent article published in Psychological Science. The hook is alluring, isn’t it? Thinking about times that you were “bad” makes you want to punish yourself. I was attracted to this article [...]

The American Psychological Association highlights some key findings regarding the treatment of personality disorders. Help for personality disorders: In a study comparing dialectical behavior therapy and traditional psychotherapy, women who underwent dialectical behavior therapy were more successful at reducing suicide attempts, self-mutilating and such self-damaging behaviors as gambling and substance abuse. As we’ve known for [...]

There has been no end of bad press for the scourge of text messaging. You can hardly listen to the news or read a newspaper without stumbling upon some other negative consequence of texting. There are clearly some issues with text messaging, from the danger while driving to the inordinate amount of time some people [...]

When reminded of an immoral deed, people are motivated to experience physical pain. This is the opening line of the discussion section in a recent article published in Psychological Science. The hook is alluring, isn’t it? Thinking about times that you were “bad” makes you want to punish yourself. I was attracted to this article [...]

The NIMH reports on a recent study released in Archives of General Psychiatry: About 3 percent of U.S. adolescents are affected by an eating disorder, but most do not receive treatment for their specific eating condition, according to an NIMH-funded study published online ahead of print March 7, 2011, in the Archives of General Psychiatry. [...]