Parietal Brain Protects Kids from Neighborhood Violence Stresses
Neighborhood violence has been associated with adverse health effects on youth, including sleep loss, asthma and metabolic syndrome. Yet...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 14, 2018
- 1 min
Autism Study Show Male Trait Bias
A large scale study has found that people with autism show higher male trait scores in systemic thinking over empathetic thinking, above...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 14, 2018
- 4 min
Pain: All in the Mind?
I am currently looking at psychological pain management techniques that can reduce the intensity of withdrawal symptoms in detoxification...
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Phil Harris
- Nov 12, 2018
- 3 min
How Do We Think?
It is one of the most fundamental questions in neuroscience: How do humans think? Until recently, we seemed far from a conclusive answer....
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Phil Harris
- Nov 12, 2018
- 2 min
Why Did Our Brains Expand?
A theory called the cultural brain hypothesis could explain extraordinary increases in brain size in humans and other animals over the...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 15, 2018
- 2 min
Schizophrenia: Too Diverse to Diagnose?
Schizophrenia is an extremely variable psychiatric disorder which is diagnosed based on the presence of specific symptoms. Thomas Wolfers...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 15, 2018
- 1 min
A Revolution in Diagnosis of Mental Illness?
In lectures and training in mental health I stress how current psychiatric diagnosis is really a short-hand for the presenting signs and...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 1, 2018
- 5 min
Free Online Compassion Training from the Center for Healthy Minds
Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 1, 2018
- 2 min
Free Online Cognitive Reappraisal Training for Depression, Anxiety and Poor Impulse Control from the
Without realizing it we make use of emotion regulation strategies all the time and they are crucial for everyday life. This is the...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 22, 2018
- 3 min
Kill with Kindness: Why Too Much Empathy is a Bad Thing
People who empathize easily with others do not necessarily understand them well. To the contrary: Excessive empathy can even impair...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 10, 2018
- 3 min
Poor Impulse Control: Most Kids Have It
Children who struggle with weak cognitive control at an early age are at most risk for trouble in adulthood following their engagement in...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 10, 2018
- 3 min
If... Then...: Two Influences of Dopamine on Motivation
Do dopamine neurons have a role in causing cues in our environment to acquire value? And, if so, do different groups of dopamine neurons...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 9, 2018
- 2 min
Mental Health: Beyond Neurotranmission
Psychiatric medications have focused heavily on neurotransmitters as the basis of mental health disorders.Researchers at Columbia...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 9, 2018
- 3 min
A Whole New World of Fear
In lectures I describe that there are two types of fear in humans, innate and learned. Whilst innate fears are located in the amygdala,...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 19, 2018
- 5 min
What the Fruit Fly Tells Us About Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
Nothing cheers me up as much as a quirky research study on the humble fruit fly. We share approximately 65 per cent of our DNA with...
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