When I decided to study Psychology, I remember that one of the main concerns I had was if the clinician role had its days counted.
It was the late 90s and Artificial Intelligence (AI) wasn’t just something you used to only see in science fiction movies anymore. It was already real science. I used to think that if I were to become a clinical psychologist I would be signing my early retirement. Yeah, I worried about that stuff when I was 18 (don’t know what the rush was).
I feared that molecular biology, computing technology, chemistry, genetics, neuroscience and ultimately nanotechnology could kill talk therapy within the next 2 or 3 decades.
We spend years of our lives feeling overwhelmed by the puny events that take place in it, worrying about problems at work, yesterday’s argument with your wife or the piling bills on the kitchen table.
Puny?! Who said they were puny?
Oh… I did?
Well… I meant puny within the greater scheme of things.
We live our short existence trapped in this organic and perennial carcass only gifted with our “evolved(?!)” minds -which most times are the source of our sorrows-.
When was the last time you took a step back to put things in perspective. How far back did you go?
If you ever need time off from your present, either because your own reality has overloaded you or you simply have the time to do it, take this mental tour to the perspective-most point known to mankind:
Shy people perceive the world in a different manner and display a more intense cerebral activity when faced to certain stimuli. It appears that this lets them analyze information in a more profound way. Introvert individuals are also more attentive to detail, which differentiates them from extroverts. Scientists from Stony ...
I was listening to NPR (National Public Radio) on my way to work yesterday and heard a story that caught my attention. Did you ever think that magnets and morality could be related? According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a person’s moral ...
Remember those sleepless nights in college? Well, they probably weren’t the best idea to get past that upcoming exam. New research from the University of California (Berkeley) has found that taking a 90 minute nap during the day can boost the brain’s capacity to store new facts by 40 percent.
Via Physorg.com The finding, published in the December 24 issue of the journal Neuron, could eventually lead to the development of new drugs to aid memory. Previous studies have proven that synapses cement memories into place. What was recently discovered is how those synapses are strengthened and the role that ...
Research done by neuroscientists from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) found that the adult brain can almost instantly change its re-wiring to adapt to new conditions. People who has lost limbs often report feeling it when touched on the face. What wasn’t known was that the brain can readjust itself ...
I don’t regard myself as an unusually intelligent guy. I’d say I’m average. But life has treated me well so far. Looks like I’ve been making good decisions, I’ve sometimes had good timing and why not, I’m might even have been a bit lucky (I haven’t won the lottery though). ...
Have you ever wondered if there was any difference in human brain development or a change in personality when a person has grown up in a bilingual household or environment? Researchers from Baruch College and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, studied how bilingual people’s personality is unconsciously affected when switching languages, ...
Researchers from the University of North Carolina made an interest discovery. They found out that the amygdala in toddlers with autism is 13 percent larger than the one in unaffected kids. It is believed that during the last part of the first year of life, some kids’ amygdala starts to ...
Discovery News published very promising and interesting news. One characteristic of people with Autism, AD/HD and Schizophrenia, is that in their cerebral activity either don’t have gamma waves at all, or they are very irregular. The idea is to induce gamma ray activity in the brain by triggering lasers set in ...
The human brain has received unprecedented press coverage in the past few years, thanks in large part to big leaps in science’s understanding of what goes on in the space between our ears. Yet, some stubborn myths remain. For this special installment of Brain & Body, we’re offering insights into ...
Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Children´s Center suggests that one of the origins of Autism could reside in antibodies (interfering with the fetal brain directly) produced by the mother during pregnancy, suggesting that the mother´s immune system could be a trigger or a factor in those already predisposed. Link ...
