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Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics
The New York Times: People with severe schizophrenia who have been isolated, withdrawn and considered beyond help can learn to become more active, social and employable by engaging in a type of talk therapy that was invented to treat depression, scientists reported on Monday. These new findings suggest that such patients have far more capability to improve their lives than was previously assumed and, if replicated, could change the way that doctors treat the one million patients for whom the disorder is profoundly limiting. The therapy — a variant of cognitive behavior therapy, which focuses on defusing self-defeating assumptions — increased motivation and reduced symptoms.
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Myslet i v analogiích umí i opice
Science World: Co se přesně analogií myslí? Např. to, že kočka se stará o koťata a dospělý pták o ptáčata. Nebo že můžeme rozpůlit čtverec podobně jako kruh – abstraktní idea společná těmto vztahům (vztah matka-potomek a půlení). Řada vědců si ale dosud myslela, že k tomu, abychom to takto chápali, potřebujeme jazyk/přemýšlení v pojmech. Jak se zdá, není to pravda. Netřeba k tomu ani inteligence velkých lidoopů. Joël Fagot z Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (CNRS/Université de Provence) a Roger Thompson z Franklin & Marshall College (USA) provedli následující experiment, o němž referoval časopis Psychological Science.
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Cinco consejos para envejecer con gracia
CNN Mexico: Olvida esa perspectiva que nos ha enseñado la vida moderna sobre que la vejez es aburrida. Tendrás mayor tiempo libre y ningún otro miembro de tu familia dependerá económicamente de ti. Aprovecha ese tiempo para realizar actividades que disfrutes y te hagan sentir bien contigo mismo. Eso también incluye el sexo. Esta edad podría ser la mejor para disfrutarlo. El sexo en la vejez suele ser más lento, controlado y la mente podría encontrarse en una mejor etapa para disfrutar de esta actividad, según un estudio publicado en Psychological Science. Read the whole story: CNN Mexico
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Context helps interpret facial emotions accurately
MSN India: A close up shows Serena Williams' eyes tensely shut; her mouth wide open, teeth bared and her face livid. Now zoom out: The tennis star is on the court, racquet in hand, fist clenched in victory. She's not angry. She's ecstatic, having just beaten her sister Venus at the 2008 US Open. Context helps interpret facial emotions accurately, according to this research. 'Strip away the context, and it is difficult to accurately perceive emotion in a face,' argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, psychologist at the Northwestern University and Harvard, who led the study. Read the full story: MSN India
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Teens Get Smarter as They Age, Especially the Older Ones
International Business Times: Parents need not worry on the mental advancement of their teens as a U.S. study showed that adolescence actually breeds more excellence, thanks much to years of learning and experience. Results of a research work published on September by the medical journal Psychological Science pointed to suggestions that regular teens, with sufficient stimulus and nutrition, are bound to undergo mental faculty enhancement.
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In Reading Facial Emotion, Context Is Everything
In a close-up headshot, Serena Williams’ eyes are pressed tensely closed; her mouth is wide open, teeth bared. Her face looks enraged. Now zoom out: The tennis star is on the court, racket in hand, fist clenched in victory. She’s not angry. She’s ecstatic, having just beaten her sister Venus at the 2008 U.S. Open. “Humans are exquisitely sensitive to context, and that can very dramatically shape what is seen in a face,” says psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard School of Medicine.
