Mar 15, 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 - March 15, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Fantastical World of Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler
Meet Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler aka Dr. Damian Jacob Sendler aka Damian Dariusz Markiewicz.
According to him, he’s “an award-winning Polish-American clinician sexologist, the scholar of forensic and legal medicine, the scientist trained in digital epidemiology, and the media health expert personality.” He’s been quoted by more than a dozen online publications internationally about his unique research examining human sexual behavior.
However, according to Gizmodo journalist Jennings Brown, much of his professional résumé and background is a lie. Is Brown right or is Sendler a bona fide scientist who simply go...
Source: World of Psychology - March 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: John M. Grohol, Psy.D. Tags: Ethics & Morality General Minding the Media Psychology Special Report Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler Damian Markiewicz Damian Sendler Dr. Sendler Taublum Media Source Type: blogs
The Prospects of Behavioral Genetics: Bad Genes Behind Crimes, Precision Education And Loosing Free Will?
Can the “warrior gene” explain aggressive and violent
acts so that lawyers base their defenses on that in courts? Can genetics
determine whether your marriage will be a long-lasting companionship? What
about alcoholism, depression or autism? To what extent are we the product of
our environment or the expression of our genes? While the nature versus nurture
debate has been ongoing for centuries, the recent advances in genetics and
genomics seem to shift the balance towards inheritance rather than the effect
of our surroundings. We looked around whether it is justified, especially when
it comes to its use in legal disput...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 9, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Future of Medicine Genomics bioethical crime DNA dna testing genes genetics Innovation legal philosophy technology Source Type: blogs
These Violent Delights Don ’t Have Violent Ends: Study Finds No link Between Violent Video Games And Teen Aggression
By Matthew Warren
Claims that violent video games lead to aggression have been around since the days of Space Invaders. When young people are exposed to violent media, the theory goes, their aggressive thoughts become more prominent, leading them to commit acts of violence. But while several studies have found results that seem to back up this idea, the evidence is far from unequivocal.
Now a study published in Royal Society Open Science has failed to find any association between the time spent playing violent video games and aggressive behaviour, adding to a growing body of literature that suggests that such a link has be...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Forensic Media Technology Source Type: blogs
Feb 28, Criminal Investigative Analysis of Jack the Ripper
Previously classified FBI dossier prepared by criminal profiling pioneer John Douglas. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - February 28, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Our Dead on Every Shore
By MAYURA DESHPANDE
I once made a serious error. The patient had taken an overdose of paracetamol, but because I was single-handedly covering three inpatient acute psychiatric wards due to sickness of two other trainees which medical HR had been unable to cover, with a lot of agency nurses who did not know any of the patients well at all, and also because this patient frequently said she had taken overdoses when she had not, and declined to let me take bloods to test for paracetamol levels, I believed she was crying wolf. She collapsed several hours later, and died. I was overwhelmed with feelings of guilt, inadequacy, b...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: NHS Patients Physicians Adverse Events Mayura Deshpande Source Type: blogs
China Uses DNA to Track Its People, With the Help of American (Yale) Expertise - from a Yale scientist sadly all too familiar to this author
You saw it here on Healthcare Renewal first.In 2005 and 2007 I ' d written the posts:"Academic abuses in biomedicine vs. Indigenous Peoples: The Genographic Project" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2005/09/academic-abuses-in-biomedicine-vs.html)and"Informed consent, exploitation and developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals" (http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2007/07/informed-consent-and-developing-snp.html)respectively.The theme of these posts was that genetics research (especially that centering on profiling) by unscrupulous scientists could have unforeseen, adverse (if not devastating) consequences to...
Source: Health Care Renewal - February 25, 2019 Category: Health Management Tags: Allele Frequency Database China genetics Kelsang Dolma Kenneth Kidd Uighurs Yale Yale Daily News Source Type: blogs
Feb 24, Profiling The Criminal Mind
Profiling The Criminal Mind: A fascinating insight into the pioneering days of FBI profiling. (Source: Forensic Psychology Blog)
Source: Forensic Psychology Blog - February 24, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Feb 18, 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 - February 18, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Feb 8, 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 - February 8, 2019 Category: Forensic Medicine Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 4th 2019
In this study, we examined the benefits of early-onset, lifelong AET on predictors of health, inflammation, and cancer incidence in a naturally aging mouse model.
Lifelong, voluntary wheel-running (O-AET; 26-month-old) prevented age-related declines in aerobic fitness and motor coordination vs. age-matched, sedentary controls (O-SED). AET also provided partial protection against sarcopenia, dynapenia, testicular atrophy, and overall organ pathology, hence augmenting the 'physiologic reserve' of lifelong runners. Systemic inflammation, as evidenced by a chronic elevation in 17 of 18 pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokin...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
GrimAge is the Latest Evolution of the Epigenetic Clock
The original epigenetic clock is a measure of age, a weighted algorithmic combination of specific DNA methylation sites on the genome. Numerous variations on this theme are being produced, and here I'll point out news on the latest, a metric called GrimAge. DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that steers protein production and thus cell behavior. Epigenetic clocks correlate well with chronological age, and it has been shown that populations of older individuals with pronounced age-related disease or otherwise exhibiting higher mortality rates tend to have higher epigenetic ages.
There are some problematic exc...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 30, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
“Better Than A Bartender?” Not Necessarily, Suggests Review Of 40 Years Of Research On Criminal Profiling
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski
The profession of “criminal profiler” is one shrouded in secrecy, even giving off a hint of danger. Yet when the American psychiatrist James A. Brussel began profiling a particular suspect in the 1950s, law enforcement officers were not entirely inclined to trust him. However, it turned out Brussel accurately defined the suspect’s height, clothing and even religion. This spectacular success was the beginning of the profession of the profiler. The FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit in 1974 to study serial predators. Since then, the art and craft of criminal profiling have become ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Forensic guest blogger Source Type: blogs
Are Criminal Profilers “Any Better Than A Bartender”? Not Necessarily, Suggests Review Of 40 Years Of Relevant Research
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski
The profession of “criminal profiler” is one shrouded in secrecy, even giving off a hint of danger. Yet when the American psychiatrist James A. Brussel began profiling a particular suspect in the 1950s, law enforcement officers were not entirely inclined to trust him. However, it turned out Brussel accurately defined the suspect’s height, clothing and even religion. This spectacular success was the beginning of the profession of the profiler. The FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit in 1974 to study serial predators. Since then, the art and craft of criminal profiling have become ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Forensic guest blogger Source Type: blogs
Are Criminal Profilers “Any Better Than A Bartender?” Not Necessarily, Suggests Review Of 40 Years Of Relevant Research
By guest blogger Tomasz Witkowski
The profession of “criminal profiler” is one shrouded in secrecy, even giving off a hint of danger. Yet when the American psychiatrist James A. Brussel began profiling a particular suspect in the 1950s, law enforcement officers were not entirely inclined to trust him. However, it turned out Brussel accurately defined the suspect’s height, clothing and even religion. This spectacular success was the beginning of the profession of the profiler. The FBI formed its Behavioral Science Unit in 1974 to study serial predators. Since then, the art and craft of criminal profiling have become ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - January 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Forensic guest blogger Source Type: blogs
