3 ARTICLES ON AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) TITLE ARTICLE #1 Doctors May Now Be Able To Predict Autism Before Age One DESCRIPTION Can autism be detected early? This has been the goal of research in the further understanding of the disorder and developing possible preventive treatments. “Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRIs),… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Psychology Update
PSYCHOLOGY UPDATE: 3 NEW STUDIES ABOUT SLEEP
WELCOME STATEMENT Welcome to Introductory Psychology Weekly Updates Every Monday through June, you will find wonderful resources to enhance your teaching and to engage your students in discussions. With each “published” edition, you will discover two or three interesting provocative articles to use as “triggers” to discuss important issues that relate to your teaching content,… Read more »
Psychology Update — 3 ARTICLES ON NEW WAYS TO DIAGNOSIS AND PREDICT ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL ILLNESS
3 ARTICLES ON NEW WAYS TO DIAGNOSIS AND PREDICT ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AND MENTAL ILLNESS TITLE ARTICLE #1: Can Blood Tests Detect Schizophrenia and Other Mental Illnesses? DESCRIPTION Generally diagnosis in Psychology and Psychiatry is mostly predicated on interviews, history, and Psychological testing. Reliability and validity of the diagnosis and treatment may often come into question. … Read more »
Psychology Update — ‘Club Drug’ Ketamine Provides Hope in Fight Against Depression
TITLE ‘Club Drug’ Ketamine Provides Hope in Fight Against Depression DESCRIPTION Depression can be devastating! There are a large percentage of individuals who do not respond to antidepressants or even shock treatment and so suffer from the disorder. In recent years, ketamine, a drug used as an anesthetic and as an animal tranquilizer has… Read more »
Psychology Update — Three Ways Officials Are Fighting the Opioid Epidemic
TITLE Three Ways Officials Are Fighting the Opioid Epidemic DESCRIPTION Opioid addiction is now a truly national problem! Whether it is by legal prescription or illegal in the form of pain pills or heroin, it is an ever increasing problem. The article points out that legislators look at the problem in the same war as… Read more »
Psychology Update — What Parents Need to Know About Technology Addiction
TITLE What Parents Need to Know About Technology Addiction DESCRIPTION Is there such a thing as an addiction to technology? This brief article points to facts such as there is no agreement on what “technology addiction” is and further that there are large gaps in research. Some data from surveys of parents… Read more »
Psychology Update — USE/MISUSE OF MEDICATIONS IN ADHD TREATMENT
3 ARTICLES ON THE USE/MISUSE OF MEDICATIONS IN ADHD TREATMENT TITLE ARTICLE #1: Generation Adderall DESCRIPTION This is an extensive first person account on using and abusing Adderall beginning in the author’s college life. She provides the history of prescribing drugs for ADHD, the biological mechanisms of how the drugs affect the brain,… Read more »
Psychology Update — Genetic test pinpoints best treatment for mental illness — but many reluctant to try it
TITLE Genetic test pinpoints best treatment for mental illness — but many reluctant to try it DESCRIPTION The article briefly focuses on new technology of doing a genetic assay (a saliva test) to determine whether there is a best medication for treating both physical problems and for mental illness such as depression. “People are… Read more »
Psychology Update — 20 Things Students Say Help Them Learn
TITLE 20 Things Students Say Help Them Learn DESCRIPTION Have you ever had a discussion with students about what would help them learn? Often this is done either on the first day of the semester after giving out a syllabus or just before an exam or after when many have failed. This article… Read more »
Psychology Update — How Kids Learn Prejudice
TITLE How Kids Learn Prejudice DESCRIPTION This is a great article for use with either the child development chapters and most certainly Social Psychology chapters in the text book. It briefly discusses the “Trump Effect” of the current election but most importantly points out that attitudes are developed early in childhood. “Developmental psychology research… Read more »
Psychological Science: The Curious Mind
Abnormal Psychology, 15th Edition DSM-5-TR Update
Behavioral Neuroscience
Personality, 15th Edition
Cognition, 11th Edition
