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Radio 4: Neuroscience versus free will debate
What are the implications of the latest discoveries in neuroscience for our belief that humans have free will? That is a live debate today and it was a live one back in 1971 when the American psychologist B.F.
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The dangers of mistaken diagnosis
Psychologists in the Netherlands have documented the case of a 58-year-old woman who was misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
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How empathy breeds altruism: New study
In a defining image of the recent English riots, a man helped an injured youngster to his feet while an accomplice stole from the same victim's bag. This sheer lack of empathy on the part of the perpetrators has shaken observers to their core.
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Hypnosis as a way of studying the brain
Forget swinging pocket watches and unedifying stage antics, hypnosis is a genuinely useful tool for studying psychogenic symptoms - that is, neurological symptoms with no identifiable organic cause (known in psychiatry as "
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Will juries be seduced by brain scans?
It's surely just a matter of time until functional MRI brain scans are admitted in US and UK courts.
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The brain and all that jazz in Edinburgh
From 9 to 12 June 2011, the Assembly Hall, New College, University of Edinburgh was home to approximately 400 researchers sharing their latest findings in how the brain processes music and how music affects the brain.
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The Internet as our external hard drive
Last year's annual question posed by Edge was "How is the Internet changing the way you think?" Several psychologists answered that it was becoming an extension of their minds.
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Neuropsychologists launch child group
The BPS Division of Neuropsychology is launching its new Faculty of Paediatric Neuropsychology with an inaugural conference at the UCL Institute of Child Health in London on Monday 10 October 2011.
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How city living changes your brain
Without fanfare or formal announcement, human civilisation has passed a momentous milestone. For the first time, more of us now live in cities than in rural communities.
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Men respond strongly to visual stimuli
Men's brains react more strongly to a visual stimulus than women's, relationship psychologist Susan Quilliam has claimed.
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The neuroscience of batman
Over the last few years it’s become apparent that humans, like bats, can make effective use of echolocation by emitting click sounds with the tongue and listening for the echoes
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Debunking free will affects the brain
Undermining a person's belief in free will alters the way their brain prepares for a voluntary movement. Davide Rigoni and his colleagues, who made the finding, aren't sure what the precise mechanism for this effect is, but they speculated that bursting the free will bubble somehow causes people to put less intentional effort into their movements.
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Psychologists share research award
Two psychologists are to share the 2010 Outstanding Doctoral Research award, presented by the British Psychological Society's Research Board.
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Clinical neuropsychology
Handbook (2012/13) Accreditation handbook - clinical neuropsychology programmes (pdf)
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Troublesome teens
University of Cambridge researchers performed the largest ever study to look at the brain structure of teenagers diagnosed with conduct disorder (American Journal of Psychiatry:
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HIV-related Cognitive Impairment
HIV-related Cognitive Impairment Assessment, Rehabilitation and Support
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Psychologists destroy money for the sake of science
When the British acid house band The KLF videoed the burning of a million pounds in 1994 on the Isle of Jura, they might not have realised it, but they were likely activating the left hemisphere t
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Clinical Neuropsychology
The Society offers the Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology (QiCN) which confers eligibility for entry onto the Society's Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists. If you want to work as a Clinical Neuropsychologist this qua
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The Resilient Brain: Cognition and Ageing - 2011
The 2011 British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture“The Resilient Brain: Cognition and Ageing”, this year’s British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture, was given by Professor Lorraine Tyler FBA at the Royal
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Find a psychologist
Online resources to help you find a psychologist Directory of Chartered Psychologists - search for a psychologist offering services to the public
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Psychological terms
Below is a list of terms relating to the different areas of psychology.  You
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More serious brain injuries associated with more life satisfaction
Psychologists investigating the well-being of patients with an acquired brain injury (ABI) have documented a curious phenomenon, whereby the more serious a person's brain injury, the higher their self-reported life-satisfaction.
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Brain Awareness Week news: Young offenders 'at risk' of brain injury
Offenders of a young age are more likely to suffer from brain injury than other members of society, it has been found.
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