Honoring William Uttal's Contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience (BS 132)
William Uttal 1931-2017 (click to play)Dr. William Uttal, who died last month at the age of 86, had a very unusual career, going from physics and engineering to psychology and cognitive science. I think his unique background contributed to the refreshing skepticism that he brought to the growing use of imaging (especially fMRI) in the cognitive sciences.He was a prolific writer on the subject and back in 2012 I had the honor of talking with him about his bookMind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In addition to shedding light on the limitations of imaging (such as poor reproducibility), Dr. Uttal a...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: brain imaging Cognitive Science Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
"Brain Expectations" -- The Discovery Files
Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move. The key, they found, lies in whether we can visually track an object. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - March 30, 2017 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
Pathways to sympathies for violent protest and terrorism
Support for violent extremism, and participation in such activity, is believed to be associated with radicalisation among some individuals, yet little empirical research has been conducted into its relationship with mental illness. In this podcast, Professor Kamaldeep S Bhui talks to Dr Raj Persaud about his latest research on the links between psychological problems and sympathies for violent protest and terrorism (SVPT) in a community-based sample. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - March 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Palliative care is about life, not death
Scott Murray, professor of primary palliative care at the University of Edinburgh, has written, and talked in this podcast before, about the benefits of early palliative care - and today he ’s back to explain how illness trajectory, and the pattern of decline at the end of life, affects 4 main areas of wellness - physical, social, psychological and... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 3, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Palliative care is about life, not death
Scott Murray, professor of primary palliative care at the University of Edinburgh, has written, and talked in this podcast before, about the benefits of early palliative care - and today he’s back to explain how illness trajectory, and the pattern of decline at the end of life, affects 4 main areas of wellness - physical, social, psychological and spiritual or existential.
Read his full analysis article:
http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j878 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - March 3, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The ABCD of Personality Structure
Regular readers of The Mouse Trap would be aware of my ABCD model of psychology whereby all psychological phenomena are explained in terms of Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive and Dynamic/Desire dimensions.
Personality Traits from SignalPatterns.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The affective dimensions is also related to sensory processes; the behavioral dimension to motor processes; the cognitive dimension to associative processes and the desire/dynamic/motives dimension to social processes.
We are increasingly focusing on brain as a means to study psychological phenomena and thus four major divisions of neurosciences are aff...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 27, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality ABCD Agreeableness Conscientiousness HEXACO Neuroticism Openness to experience Trait theory Source Type: podcasts
Mental Health Docs Must Resist Armchair Diagnoses of Trump
According to Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, history shows a slippery slope away from ethics when psychiatrists, psychologists, and analysts play politics. (Source: Medscape Neurology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Neurology Podcast - February 23, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Mental Health Docs Must Resist Armchair Diagnoses of Trump
According to Dr Jeffrey Lieberman, history shows a slippery slope away from ethics when psychiatrists, psychologists, and analysts play politics. (Source: Medscape Psychiatry Podcast)
Source: Medscape Psychiatry Podcast - February 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
The Four Neural Sub-Types of Depression
Regular readers of The Mouse Trap will be familiar with my obsession with knowing how nature is carved at its joints or in other words what are the natural categories or basic kinds.
Anhedonia (The Graduate album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This translates into thinking a lot about what are the fundamental drives, basic emotions and personalty traits and what taxonomic system of mental illness is most reflective of underlying fundamental nosological differences.
While synthesizing the work of others, has great value, and one derives many valuable theoretical insights based on such musings; there is nothing better than findi...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 23, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: depression anergia anhedonia anxiety Depression (mood) Major depressive disorder mania Source Type: podcasts
The Four Shades of Dark
People since time immemorial have been fascinated by the problem of evil; some consider it a philosophical (why does evil exist?) and religious problem (Why does god allow evil if he is omnipotent and benevolent?) while some others have taken a more scientific approach.
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Prominent psychologists from Roy Baumeister to Simon Baron-Cohen have written about evil and I first got drawn into psychology when I read ‘The anatomy of human destructiveness‘ by Erich Fromm in 1992, while still in college. As a matter of fact Fromm first came up with the term ‘malignant narcissism’ wh...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality Erich Fromm evil Machiavellianism narcissism psychopathy sadism Source Type: podcasts
Basic Needs, Basic Beliefs, Basic Pathologies
Kahneman in his book ‘Thinking fast and slow‘ elucidates the two type of thinking processes involved- a system I consisting of fast, intuitive processing, and a system II consisting of slower, more deliberate processing. Lesser known is the fact that a similar dual process theory of personality that precedes his work is by Seymour Epstien.
The Pleasure Principle (song) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Epstien is know for his Cognitive-Experiential Self theory of Personalty (CEST), according to which he reintroduced the concept of unconscious in psychology, in the form of the Experiential system, but his unconscious wa...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 19, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: cognition personality Affect (psychology) beliefs needs unconscious Source Type: podcasts
Self-reflective Consciousness and Existential Concerns
I am currently reading ‘A life worth living‘ and found the introductory chapter by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi quite stimulating and inspiring.
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In that chapter, Mihaly claims that human brains are unique in lieu of their ability to give rise to self-reflective consciousness (I believe that many primates and some other animals may also have self-reflective consciousness, but that is tangential to our discussion here). This self-reflective consciousness in turn leads to some interesting psychological effects.
To begin with, the self-reflective consciousness gives rise to a sense of individuality...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 12, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: positive psychology consciousness existentialism Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Source Type: podcasts
