Psychology:
Charlie Rose recently ran a show billed as "A discussion about the legacy of Sigmund Freud." I'd urge anyone interested in the impact of neuroscience on psychotherapeutic practice to take the time to watch it. The title is a bit...
Posted on June 2, 2007 12:59 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
For those of us with even a passing knowledge of psychology, Virginia Shooter Seung Cho's plays read like a fictionalized retelling of DSM IV, the bible of psychiatric disorders. The characters exhibit signs of everything from paranoia, to pedophilia, to...
Posted on April 18, 2007 5:17 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Because I am a sucker for the bizarre case study, I can't help but use The Frontal Cortex's recent entry on false pregnancy as an excuse to share an extreme example of the phenomenon with the readers. In Phantoms In...
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Posted on December 11, 2006 12:18 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The dark days of winter are upon us, folks, and as you know, wintertime has been shown to make many of us SAD. Luckily, experts in a variety of disciplines have been working feverishly to come up with strategies to...
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Posted on November 16, 2006 8:00 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Okay, clearly Neurontic does not attract the carb-averse. Spaghetti was pretty high up on everyone's list. Answers ranged from a respectable '6' to a lip-smacking '10.'I contacted a few of you to get the specs on your dinners and here's...
Posted on August 14, 2006 12:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'd like to replicate an experiment I recently read about in Harvard Psychologist Daniel Gilbert's new book Stumbling On Happiness, a philosophical tract masquerading as a self-help book. Despite residing in the nose bleed section of the ivory tower, Gilbert...
Posted on August 12, 2006 9:30 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I have spent most of my life losing keys, driver's licenses, cigarette lighters--even the occasional car. I couldn't tell you which direction is west to save my life. My math skills are abysmal. I'm clumsy, forgetful, and utterly useless when...
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Posted on April 3, 2006 10:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the wake of World War II, stunned by the German peoples adoption of Hitler's horrific vision of Aryan purity, psychologists set out to discover the mechanisms of social control. One of the most famous studies to emerge during this...
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Posted on March 7, 2006 9:45 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As a born skeptic, I was always convinced that hypnosis was quack science. Then I reached the end of my tether. I'd promised myself I would quit smoking before I turned 30. In the months approaching my birthday, I still...
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Posted on March 5, 2006 8:30 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Introversion is a loaded word. Just look it up in the dictionary and here's what you'll find:Introversion: The state or tendency toward being wholly or predominantly concerned with and interested in one's own mental life(Mirriam-Webster Online) Doesn't sound so good,...
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Posted on February 5, 2006 10:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Neurontic covers breakthroughs in neuroscience and psychology and is designed to give laypeople a window into the inner workings of the human mind. Orli Van Mourik is a freelance journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in Psychology Today Magazine .
