Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections

Insights drawn from neuroscience not only provide educators with a scientific basis for understanding some of the best practices in teaching, but also offer a new lens through which to look at the problems teachers grapple with every day. By gaining insights into how the brain works—and how students actually learn—teachers will be able to create their own solutions to the classroom challenges they face and improve their practice.
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Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update - Feb 26

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Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update - Feb 26

Art of Psychiatry: Richard Dadd

Richard Dadd (1 August 1817 – 7 January 1886) was an English painter of the Victorian era. Following a long tour of the Middle East in the early 1840s he succumbed to a schizophrenia-type illness, following which he murdered his father and fled to France where he attacked another traveller. After his return to England he spent over forty years in the Bethlem and Broadmoor, during which period most of the works for which he is best known were created … Nicholas Tromans, a Senior Lecturer at London’s Kingston University, is widely published on the subject of 19th century art and is author of “Richard Dadd: the Artist and the Asylum”. In this blog post he talks about Dadd’s life and mental illness …
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Counseling Psychology Masters Degree

So what do psychology counselors do and what is involved in studying a counseling psychology masters degree? This web page tells you more about psychological counseling and will help you to locate schools to study the programs required to qualify.

Mom's mental health affects baby's language development

Both having depression and taking antidepressants during pregnancy may affect an infant’s language development, new research suggests. Study results reveal that a crucial language development period, during which infants learn to tune in to the sounds of their native language, is sped up when women take antidepressants, and prolonged when a woman has depression. Janet Werker, a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia. Werker discussed her findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting. Read more ...
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Forensic Psychology Online

What is forensic psychology?

Basically, it is the application of psychology in the criminal justice system.  It used in providing expert testimony in court, treating mentally ill offenders, and also in analyzing criminals.

The study of forensic psychology is an increasingly popular choice amongst students.  The Forensic Psychology Online web page provides more details on the field and on the programs for it.

'Lazy' media stigmatize mentally ill

Researchers say Media coverage of mental illness in Canada is overwhelmingly negative, according to an analysis of news articles and television transcripts commissioned by the Mental Health Commission of..."
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Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update - Feb 19

Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update - Feb 19, 2012