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Heart rhythm research remains a narrow field with limited applications despite a wide distribution of electrocardiography methods in practical medicine and medical research. Suggested cardiorhythm related study in close relation with mental processes study allows an expanding concept of the heart rhythm information content. Mental processes and heart rhythm are considered as related processes influencing/determining behavior. A special accent was made on time-scale of described phenomena. This monograph is based on the author’s research and the newest observations of scientists from different fields. The proposed study focuses on separate elements of complex problems, for example, diagnostics and treatment of various depression-disorders based on new roles of the cardiorhythm. The discussed concept could be applied in sport-related medicine, teaching and psychology as well as in the general improvement of human performance area. The simple style of the monograph does not require special knowledge from the reader and makes it useful for a wide range of researchers in areas of physiology, psychology, psychiatry, neurology and cardiology.

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I am desperate for research information and i hope someone here can pinpoint me in the right direction. I'm currently working on two research papers, one on the effectiveness of play therapy in improving the social interaction of chilren with autism, and another on group work vs individual work in an organisation, particulary in reference to formation, group norms, social facilitation and social loafing. My tutor wont allow me to use information from textbooks and i was wondering if anyone knows of any journals, articles or research papers on either of these topics. It would be a massive help. Even if you just know the researchers or study name. It would be hugely appreciated. Thanks.

Hi everyone. I'm really hoping someone can help me out with some career/job advice. Basically, I'm in my final year of working towards a BA in psychology here in the San Francisco Bay area. I've been using the little time I have between school to look for some sort of paying internship, or at least position in a practice (private or otherwise). As of yet, I've really only referred to Craigslist. There, I've only been able to find positions that call for an undergraduate degree.

That said, can anyone suggest some starting points for finding a job as a last-year senior? Really, I'd be happy doing just about anything, so long as it is in a professionally relevant environment!

Seriously, any suggestions would be totally welcomed. Thanks in advance!

I'm preparing for a debate about pre-marital counseling and personality test. 

The usage of personality tests should be compulsory while in pre-marital counseling?

I debating in favor of the premise.

I've found very little information that can sustain my position.

The arguments to discuss are:

• It confirms if the couple is 'meant to be' (compatibility)
• By taking the personality test the couple can identify the fields that they need to work on to make their marriage a stable one.

Most of the articles we have found emphazise that personality is something that cannot be measured and that compatibility between partners is not just there, you make it. 

If somebody knows about any articles that can point me in the right direction it would be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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is anyone here from canada?

i am finshing up a diploma of adult psychology from ICS Canada (a correspondence school), and i have always had a strong interest in people, and psychology in general. in the past few years i have had a big passion for addictions counseling and am thinking of still pursuing that. so basically, in the next year i am going to narrow to down and go to university to study something more specific.

what certain area of psychology is your passion? are you currently studying or in the workforce? what was your favourite class, and your least favourite?

thank would help me greatly. thank you!

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone could help me find this book chapter that I need for an assignement. The chapter is available online as a .pdf, but my uni doesn't have access to it.

The link is - http://www.springerlink.com/content/v43662w5t4l1673j/

and the other info is:
Book: Neural Correlates of Thinking
Chapter: Integration of EEG and fMRI
ISBN (of the book): 978-3-540-68044-4 (Online)
ISSN (of the chapter): 1867-4208

My email address is - h.c.knight@durham.ac.uk

Thank you ever so much for your time!

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Michelle

Hello,
Could you please tell me if there's a term in psychoanalysis that describes the tendency to focus one's attention on one narrow aspect of being, ignoring all other potentialities (or the multiplicity of the psyche)? An example that might describe what I'm getting at is, in the myth of Orpheus, when Orpheus abandons all other gods to worship Apollo after being painfully separated from Eurydice forever. Another related example that I'm particularly interested in is when someone who's experiencing depression (or similar emotions) becomes suddenly pessimistic, or caught up in a particular way of thinking that doesn't give any consideration to the validity of alternate views. Any input you could provide on this phenomenon would be greatly appreciated, especially if you could narrow these ideas into concrete terms or tell me where I could find more information on these concepts.
**(Bonus points for framing these concepts within a Freudian, Jungian or Archetypal perspective -- I'm trying to come up with a topic for my psychology of religion term paper; I hope I can take it in this direction and make it work...)
Thank you!

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Hi everyone,

I am an undergrad psych student who is considering going into Educational or Clinical Psychology. I am currently deciding my Stage II courses for next year, and I have just found out that one of my lecturers are recommending Biopsychology and Neuroscience courses for Stage II and III (not compulsory) for postgrad Clinical Psychology. These happened to be courses I was thinking of NOT taking, as I am more interested in the social/behavioural rather than biological side of things. So, I have a question: How large a part of Clinical Psychology is biology/neuroscience going to be, when it comes to practical/applied work? Would you recommend that I 'take what I love' at undergrad level, or is it really better to take the science-y courses now?

Thanks,
Jen

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I'm hoping to study Psychology at a UK university next year. Could anyone recommend some psychology wider reading books? I'm particularly interested in clinical and child psychology.
Or if anyone can give me some tips or advice, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8138893.stm

If you've seen a doctor about emotional problems some time over the past 20 years, you may have been told that you had a chemical imbalance, and that you needed tablets to correct it.

It's not just doctors that think this way, either. Magazines, newspapers, patients' organisations and internet sites have all publicised the idea that conditions like depression, anxiety, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be treated by drugs that help to rectify an underlying brain problem.

People with schizophrenia and other conditions are frequently told that they need to take psychiatric medication for the rest of their lives to stabilise their brain chemicals, just like a diabetic needs to take insulin.

The trouble is there is little justification for this view of psychiatric drugs.

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Second, it is often said the fact that drug treatment "works" proves there's an underlying biological deficiency. But there is another explanation for how psychiatric drugs affect people with emotional problems. It is frequently overlooked that drugs used in psychiatry are psychoactive drugs, like alcohol and cannabis. Psychoactive drugs make people feel different; they put people into an altered mental and physical state.


Well duh. I don't think I've ever seen someone say "this psychoactive medication will just make mental illness go away and won't make you at all drugged-up". The point of their existence is that being drugged-up in a drug's particular way is less unpleasant than suffering some kind of psychiatric nastiness. You could say the same about most any drug: being shot up with morphine is fairly unpleasant (or at least I don't enjoy the feeling of a morphine hit whatsoever) for instance, but it's better than being in severe pain.

I'm also not sure how accurate the article is. It seems to be trying to argue that psychiatric problems aren't a result of non-normative levels of various things in the brain, and whilst I don't know enough about the link between serotonin and depression to pick that one apart, dopaminergic drugs seem to have a direct effect on psychosis: drugs that boost dopamine tend to make schizophrenia worse, drugs that lower it make it better (or if you're non-schizophrenic like me, tend to induce transient Parkinsonism). It could all be correlation rather than causation, I suppose.

I have to admit that people going on about medication in a negative way does annoy me. For numerous reasons, but one of the most primary being I know a few people who may well have ended up in the morgue if it wasn't for their existence.

Thoughts?

Hi! I'm new here, and am hoping for some help and insight. I'm a 19yr old male living in CO, I LOVE the field of psychology and suck in info about it like crazy fast(except for stats xP), I'm wondering if I've gotten into it just to try and figure out why I feel so weirded and lost. I've kind of always been a bit of a hypocondriac for psych disorders, just a little bit. But I think I'm having an identity crisis and don't know what to do about it. I feel like I'm empty inside, like at any given moment I'm going to crack and fall away into a thousand little puzzle pieces and just dissapear. I have completely different moods about every day, and just don't know how to think or what to do with myself. I feel like I'm losing a war with myself and can't do anything about it. Because of this I just keep feeling more and more hopeless, and good happy things don't seem to be enough anymore to prop myself up again. And this is bringing me to my knees and making me very depressed. I don't want to be all whiney and complainy like I probably am..., but I really want to know what to do and how to find answers for myself and fix this on my own. I don't really want to go see a psychologist, I've tried twice and stopped going after the first time. I don't like it. So please if anyone has any other alternatives, anything I can do on my own or without involving others around me that would be just wonderful =)

Help me help this kid. He's my nephew, but there's only ten years between us and he lives with me, so he's more like a little brother. He has severe (like, through-the-roof) ADHD and was diagnosed as having obstinate defiant disorder when he was younger. He's unmedicated right now because every ADHD med we've had him on has caused him to be reactive and just plain mean-natured.

It's my job to tutor him, because teachers have given up on him and every other adult he knows lacks the patience. His whole life, adults have only yelled at him, threatened him, demeaned him, and/or struck him. I refuse to do any of these things, and emotionally remove myself from the situation before I start trying to teach him so that I can stay calm. He reacts to this by trying his damnedest to get a reaction out of me.

It actually honestly, no exaggeration, boiled down to a conversation like this:

Me: What's 3 in to 21?
Him: I don't know. Yell at me.
Me: ....no. What's 3 in to 21?
Him: Yell at me.
Me: No.
Him: Yell at me.
Me: No. (repeat this exchange 3-4 times)
Him: Yell at me!
Me: I refuse to yell at you. You're just repeating what people have told you about yourself. It's not true. I'm not going to yell at you.
Him: No I'm not, yell at me.

Etc... I did refuse to yell at him the entire two hours it took us to finish his homework, but his goal in life now is to get an emotional reaction out of me. He smiles and laughs when I get frustrated or seem distressed. All he does is twist, turn, dance, yell/sing out his pulled-out-of-the-ass answers, gives sarcastic responses, keeps guessing until he gets it, is too busy twisting around to actually think- he acts like a charicature. It has to be on purpose. He's trying to get a rise out of me and I'm trying my damnedest not to, but he's so fucked up now that I just want to cry seeing this. What kind of child asks to be yelled at? I know his increased activity when I ask him to do math is due to anxiety, because everyone else always starts screaming at him and threatening him when he can't do it. So why is he asking me to heighten his anxiety level by asking to be yelled at? What do I do? He leaves, and then once he's gone I'm in tears because he just seems so fargone, yet this is all on me. His mom damaged him, and now I'm supposed to fix it.

Therapy, according to his mother, didn't work. The only therapist he ever saw just played board games with him, supposedly.

 I am writing a paper on Depression and Testosterone. So far, I have an idea of what I wanna write and have planned out my outlines but I need your advice on who the authorities are on this field. Any controversial issues or the likes would also be very helpful.

I'm submitting my research to the Midwestern Psychological Association. Most likely through Psi Chi, since they recommend that undergraduate research be submitted through this channel, but supposedly (if I understood the website correctly) research can be submitted through either Psi Chi or MPA.

Has anyone here attended this conference? If you submitted undergraduate research, did you do it through Psi Chi or through MPA? How competitive is it to get your research accepted through either Psi Chi or MPA?

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Hi -

Does anyone by chance have access to this article?  If you do and wanted to email it to me at twinkltwrp@hotmail.com I would really appreciate it!

Design evaluation of a home-based telecare system for Chronic Heart Failure patients
Gund, A.; Ekman, I.; Lindecrantz, K.; Sjoqvist, B. A.; Staaf, E. L.; Thorneskold, N.;
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2008. EMBS 2008. 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
20-25 Aug. 2008 Page(s):5851 - 5854


or - have suggestions for a survey evaluating tele-monitoring for patients with congestive heart failure - some sort of satisfaction survey?

thanks!
laura

A friend of mine just confessed a rather big secret of his, and after hours of thinking, I still can't figure out how that works. I've had psychology classes, but I can't fathom how his mind can work the way it does. It just contradicts with so many things.

Basically? He cares for people, and he is capable of love. But he doesn't want to be loved back. People that show that they care for him annoy/bother him. For example; he loved his girlfriend, and he still does, yet he dumped her because he couldn't handle her love for him. He doesn't like flattery either, or compliments for that matter. He says he's always been that way.


My question is, is this something common? What could be the causes? And is it fixable in some way? It just seems so wrong to me.