Some ‘thinks’ only a psychologist can believe!

New insights to address cognitive decline and the wonders of adderall

Recent work on diet and exercise in cognitive decline in the production of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor; the six minute effect. Also a new window on adderall

APA top ten articles from 2022

Each year APA announces the most read/downloaded articles from the 89 journals they publish...here they are!

VALENTINES SPECIAL!!!

What happens when you love something or someone relative to brain and identity-hey sorry for all the coughs, tested negative though! 

Gut-Brain gains popularity

The microbiome is gaining importance in relation to human behaviour and challenges the centrality of the nervous system as the belle of the ball. And nose picking as risk factor(?)

The costs of extroversion and de-transitioning

While extroversion has been shown to be a valuable psycho-social resource there is a dark side and as the data comes in on transgender, we have to keep our eyes open.

Well-being and life satisfaction as revealed in longitudinal studies

Supplemental to an earlier podcast on Terman’s longitudinal study, a discussion of additional information on what makes life better, or worse.

Remembering Charles Manson psychometrically

Some personal stuff about this famous 20th century criminal and an article re-interpreting his last formal psychological evaluation 

Guy is on a biological kick..more on food for mental health, and of course cannabis

Coffee redeemed, but not with ‘fake’ sugar, and some pot/pain clarification. Oh yeah food depiction in cinema!

MEDSCAPE WEBSITE -a good resource for us, and a couple other things

A couple articles from this website-acupuncture for use in chronic pain, the strength of junk food and cannabis lung harm plus some stuff on junk food and how to fight its compelling nature!

Finally, an excuse for swearing

The benefits of swearing and potential therapeutics associated