Re-Wiring Memory
You may not realize it, but each time you recall a memory -- like your first time riding a bike or walking into your high school prom --...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
The Pandemic: The Personality Changer
The research on personality is probably the most reliable and statistically robust area of all studies of human nature. Essentially, the...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 8, 2022
- 1 min
Youth Survey: Drug and Alcohol Use in Decline
The latest UK survey of 10,000 children aged between 11-15 shows significant declines in alcohol, smoking and drug use in young people. ...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
Alcohol Related Deaths Increase by 20%
The long terms impact of lockdown is beginning to be felt. One of the most dramatic impacts has been an almost 20 per cent increase in...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min
From Harm to Hope: New UK Drug Strategy Published
The Government has published the new 10 Year Strategy. I have not had time to fully digest it at present but will be reviewing sections...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Personality: Can We Deliberately Change?
Could a company train an employee to become more conscientious, even if the worker isn't invested in improving that trait? A new study...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 3 min
Negative Emotions Role in Schizophrenia
A person with schizophrenia typically experiences more negative emotions and has more stressors than average. A new study by University...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
3 Factors Predict Mental Illness
The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
Concerned Others: Living with Problem Users in Lockdown
Concerned Others, the parents, partners and close friends of those with substance misuse problems, are a neglected group at the best of...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 3, 2021
- 1 min
Aaron Beck dies at the Age of 100
Sad news today as it was announced that Aaron Beck, the father of Cognitive Therapy has died at the age of 100. It would be impossible...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Alcohol Recovery and Stigma
A recent qualitative study has identified six strategies that recovering alcoholics use to negotiate social situations and remain sober,...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
Why Sibling Aggression Differs
Structural differences in the area of the brain responsible for decision making could explain why two siblings living in the same family...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Predicting Psychosis
One third of children with a microdeletion of chromosome 22 will later develop a psychotic illness such as schizophrenia. But how do we...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
Past Trauma Changes Others Current Perspective
A team of researchers from the University of Missouri have discovered that people tend to give more praise to someone for their good...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2021
- 2 min
The Halo Effect & Anxiety
For some teenagers, the new school year means reuniting with their friends. For others, it means an increase in anxiety and in the...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
Unlearning Pain
Rethinking what causes pain and how great of a threat it is can provide chronic pain patients with lasting relief and alter brain...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 11, 2021
- 1 min
New Personality Disorder Framework
The new International Classification of Diseases (ICD Edition 11) is soon due for release in January 2022. Produced by the World Health...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 4, 2021
- 1 min
PRIDDY Toolkit: New Intervention for Young Drinkers
An interesting new (and free) tool kit to support young people who are drinking has just been realised by Humankind. Based on the AUDIT,...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 4, 2021
- 4 min
The God Circuit
More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 23, 2021
- 1 min
How to Hallucinate (Without Drugs)
I felt I could reach through the screen to get to another place. Lasers became entire fans of light sweeping around, and then it felt as...
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