Posts Categorized: Nervous System

Psychology Update — How Food Affects Mental Health

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TITLE How Food Affects Mental Health   DESCRIPTION What are your favorite comfort foods?  Do they include pizza, ice cream, candy, nuts, lots of carbs, fried foods, fast foods, and so on?  Are these just for comfort, handling stress, or your regular diet?  Psychology and Psychiatry are finally catching up to the notion that food… Read more »

Psychology Update — What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?

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TITLE What Can Covid-19 Teach Us About the Mysteries of Smell?   DESCRIPTION This is a most fascinating article that would be classified in the Sensation and Perception chapters in the textbook.  Interestingly, those chapters devote the smallest amount of space to the sense of smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory).   The article begins with… Read more »

Psychology Update — 3 ARTICLES ON PAIN (Physical and Emotional) MANAGEMENT 

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3 ARTICLES ON PAIN (Physical and Emotional) MANAGEMENT  This week’s Psychology Update along with the Psychology Website of the Week and Psychology Resource Ted Talk of the Week focuses on the mysterious distressing problem of pain and pain management.   These articles can be used in conjunction with the chapters on nervous system, Positive and… Read more »