Peter H Brown Clinical Psychologist

Source Credit:  Chris Woolston, Special to the Los Angeles Times April 28, 2012 Mitt Romney on the stump, singles at the bar, car salesmen on the lot: All sorts of people are practicing the art of persuasion, with varying degrees of success. We like to think that we make our own decisions, that we’r

Source: BMJ Read The Original Research Article Here A computerized self help intervention may help adolescents who suffer from depression. The specialized computer therapy acts much the same way as they do from one-to-one therapy with a clinician, according to a study published on BMJ. Depression is

Via Medical News Today Read The Original Research Article Here Soccer fans’ testosterone and cortisol levels go up when watching a game, but don’t further increase after a victory, according to a study published in the open access journal PLoS ONE. The study was conducted with 50 Spanish soccer fans

Source Credit: Mental Health Grace Alliance The Good News about Borderline Personality Disorder Date: 06 Feb 2012 Guest Blog: Amanda Smith, Founder of Hope For BPD After being diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2004, she started her path of recovery. As she oversees the programs of Ho

Source and authorship credit: Everything you thought you knew about learning is wrong Psychology Today http://www.psychologytoday.com/ Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong How, and how NOT, to learn anything Published on January 28, 2012 by Garth Sundem in Brain Candy Learning thr

Author Credit: futurecomms.co.uk The Psychology Behind Facebook A new study from Boston University has looked at why people use Facebook. But not in the conventional ‘to keep in touch with friends’ or ‘to share photos’ sense. Oh no, this is FAR more interesting. The study looks at human needs (think

Source: Psychology Today, Susan Krauss Whitbourne, Ph.D. The smartphone is quickly becoming an extension of the human brain. The latest entry into the market, the iPhone 4S, contains a feature named Siri that (according to the Apple website): “understands what you say, knows what you mean, and even

What is more desirable: too little or too much spare time on your hands? To be happy, somewhere in the middle, according to Chris Manolis and James Roberts from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH and Baylor University in Waco, TX. Their work shows that materialistic young people with compulsive buy

Source : ScienceDaily (July 1, 2011) — Read The Original Article Here Northwestern University researchers have provided new biological evidence suggesting that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one’s own race than when memorizing a face from another race. Their st

Maslow’s Pyramid of Human Needs Put to the Test Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign For more than 60 years, psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs has served as a model by which many judge life satisfaction. But his theory has never been subjected to scientific validat