Jan 2, All About Forensic Psychology
A forensic psychology website designed to help anybody looking for detailed information and resources. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - January 2, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Dec 29, All About Forensic Psychology
A forensic psychology website designed to help anybody looking for detailed information and resources. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - December 29, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Hotlines Aren ’ t Enough to Help People at Risk of Suicide
By CARA ANGELOTTA MD
Contrary to popular belief, the risk of suicide does not increase around the holidays. But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, annual suicide rates in the U.S. have risen nearly 30 percent since 1999.
Much of the media coverage following the high-profile suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain has followed recommended best practices to reduce risk of suicide contagion or “copycat” suicides by including warning signs a person may be at risk of suicide due to depression and contact information for the national hotline for suicide prevention. This overly simplistic approa...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Patients Cara Angelotta public health suicide epidemic suicide hotlines suicide prevention Source Type: blogs
Dec 4, Albert Bandura: Today in the History of Psychology (4th December 1925)
Albert Bandura was born. A truly eminent psychologist, the world renowned Stanford University Professor's groundbreaking work includes his landmark article 'Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models' published in 1961 and his classic book 'Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory' published in 1986. Albert Bandura's many professional awards include the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Psychological Science, which he received in 2006 along with the following citation.
'Professor Bandura is an extraordinarily innov...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - December 4, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
FDA to Divide Cybersecurity Risk Into Two Tiers
Medical devices that contain software, or are software, are subject to the well-known medical device classifications of I, II, III, listed in increasing level of risk and correspondingly increasing degree of FDA scrutiny before marketing. In addition to classification, for Software as Medical Device (SaMD) the FDA has suggested, via a Guidance Document (as discussed here), that there are four categories depending on the state of the healthcare situation or condition, and the significance of the information provided by such software to a healthcare decision.
In addition to this ranking of the importance of the device, the F...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - November 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: William Hyman Tags: Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
Cheap Infrared Scanners Thanks to Quantum Effects and Wavelength Shifts
Infrared spectroscopy is commonly used for testing the strength of various materials, to study archaeological finds, and in forensics. It’s a bit of a niche in medicine, partially due to the fact that the visible spectrum is itself so useful and equipment relying on it cheap to acquire. Researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore have now developed an infrared sensing technique that relies on cheap visible spectrum detectors to do the job.
The researchers figured out how to split a laser beam into two lower energy, and therefore longer wavelength, beams. One beam is used for r...
Source: Medgadget - November 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Pumpkin Carving as a model for Genome Assembly
So - we have this pumpkin carving contest every year in the UC Davis Genome Center. And people from my lab have done some excellent pumpkins in the past.See for example some details on their 2014 pumpkin:The@phylogenomics lab pumpkin started out simple:@casettron@hhollandmoritz (1/2)pic.twitter.com/gZJNMqPzaf— David Coil (@davidacoil)October 29, 2014And thus, the@phylogenomics lab annual pumpkin was created. You have to look through the objectives to see it.pic.twitter.com/G3t5Iyo6gL— Russell Neches (@ryneches)October 29, 2014The pumpkin entry from@phylogenomics's lab is a little unusual!pic.twitter.com/4sNslv9x8x...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 3, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Oct 22, Julian Rotter: Today in the History of Psychology (22nd October 1916)
Julian Rotter was born. One of the most cited psychologists in the history of modern psychology, Rotter's research was instrumental in establishing social learning theory and the concept of locus of control as major areas of psychological investigation. A highly respected academic, Rotter's seminal work 'Social Learning and Clinical Psychology' was published in 1954 and in 1963 he became the Program Director of Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut, where he remained until his retirement in 1986.
In 1988 Julian Rotter received the American Psychological Association (APA) award for Distinguished Scientific Co...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 23, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 21, Nadine Lambert: Today in the History of Psychology (21st October 1926)
Nadine Lambert was born. A renowned researcher within educational settings, Lambert was the founder of the University of California, Berkeley's doctoral program in school psychology and served as director of this innovative program from 1965 until 2004.
The recipient of many honors in the course of an esteemed career, Lambert received the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award from the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1986 in recognition that her 'research on the social and the psychological antecedents of various childhood and adolescent mental health problems, as well as her work with hyperactive child...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 21, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 20, John Dewey: Today in the History of Psychology (20th October 1859)
John Dewey was born, an eminent philosopher, psychologist and champion of progressive educational and social reform, Dewey is widely considered as one of the 20th Century's greatest thinkers. A prolific writer, Dewey published influential works across a range of topics including; instrumentalism, pedagogy, epistemology, political theory, religion, pragmatism and ethics.
Among his many professional accolades, John Dewey served as president of the American Psychological Association in 1899, was awarded the prestigious Columbia University Butler Medal in 1935 for 'the distinguished character and continued vitality of his cont...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 20, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 19, Lois Stolz: Today in the History of Psychology (19th October 1891)
Lois Stolz was born. A pioneer in the field of childhood education and development, Stolz served as the first president of the National Association of Nursery Education in 1929 and as the first woman to chair the Committee for the National Society for the Study of Education oversaw a landmark publication on Preschool and Parental Education; which proved instrumental in stimulating interest and groundbreaking research within child development.
In the course of a long and distinguished academic career, Stolz worked as a research associate at the Institute of Child Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley before jo...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 19, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 18, Roger N. Shepard: Today in the History of Psychology (18th October 1995)
Roger N. Shepard, Professor of psychology at Stanford University was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Clinton in a ceremony at the White House: 'For his theoretical and experimental work elucidating the human mind's perception of the physical world and why the human mind has evolved to represent objects as it does; and for giving purpose to the field of cognitive science and demonstrating the value of bringing the insights of many scientific disciplines to bear in scientific problem solving.' (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
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Oct 17, Robert Sessions Woodworth: Today in the History of Psychology (17th October 1869)
Robert Sessions Woodworth was born. A prominent academic psychologist in the first half of the twentieth century, Woodworth studied psychology under William James at Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Columbia University under the supervision of James McKeen Cattell.
Renowned for his work on a range of topics within the field of educational and physiological psychology, in particular the transfer of training and neural organization in emotion, Woodworth is also widely acclaimed for the influential and very popular textbooks his wrote; most notably 'Experimental Psychology,' the first edition of which wa...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 17, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 16, Martin Theodore Orne: Today in the History of Psychology (16th October 1927)
Martin Theodore Orne was born. Emeritus professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Orne was renowned for his pioneering work concerning the nature of hypnosis, memory distortion and lie detection and for his involvement as an expert witness in high profile criminal trials such as the Kenneth Bianchi 'Hillside Strangler' trial and the Patty Hearst bank robbery case.
Orne was also hugely influential in raising awareness of the inherent problem of demand characteristics within laboratory based behavioral research and the need for constant vigilance on the part of researchers concerning the ecolo...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 17, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Oct 15, Stanley Milgram: Today in the History of Psychology (15th October 1963)
This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It consists of ordering a naive subject to administer increasingly more severe punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock.'
Milgram's disturbing finding that 65% of subjects obeyed orders from an authority figure to inflict what they believed to be severe levels of pain on someone else still ranks among the most influential areas of social psychological research and remains the subj...
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - October 15, 2018 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
