Mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness

Mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness

Magic mushroom compound might treat depression by reviving emotional responsiveness in the brain https://t.co/YKPZG7DJzJ — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) January 14, 2018 The new study, published in the scientific journal Neuropharmacology, found that depressed people had increased neural responses to fearful faces one day after a psilocybin-assisted therapy session, which positively predicted positive clinical outcomes. “I believe…

Self-perception and social anxiety

Self-perception and social anxiety

Socially anxious people learn more from negative social feedback, study finds https://t.co/31Xj7j7HzA — PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) January 11, 2018 “So it is really important to understand how self-perception and feelings about the self (i.e., state self-esteem) are fluctuating over time and how those dynamics differ between people,” Koban told PsyPost. “We looked at this from a…

Do drugs make people more creative

Do drugs make people more creative

Do drugs make people more creative? https://t.co/LiOosKxFVD – PsyPost.org (@PsyPost) January 7, 2018 The review of past research found a general association between creativity and substance use. But it failed to turn up any substantial evidence that drug use directly increased creativity. “The results that we have suggest no direct link between the two,” Demetrovics…

Traps when dealing with depression

Traps when dealing with depression

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-practice/201801/five-mistakes-people-depression-make 1) Feeling irritable is one of the main symptoms of depression for many people. Some problems that trigger repeated irritation and frustration are easily fixable. However, people with depression often go into a passive “survival” mode and don’t address these issues, even though they could. 2) Difficulty sleeping is one of the most horrible…

7,600 NZ Men Returned From WW2 with Diagnosed PTSD

7,600 NZ Men Returned From WW2 with Diagnosed PTSD

Even those who remained married after their husbands returned from war found there were changes to absorb. Other families endured long-term consequences of the conflict. Of the men who came home, 15,000 returned with physical injuries. And there were also those less visibly damaged. In the 1940s the term used to describe psychological and psychiatric…

Procrastination is not solved by focusing on the volitional

Procrastination is not solved by focusing on the volitional

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201801/new-way-understand-procrastination Many psychologists have attempted to understand the causes of procrastination beginning, perhaps, with the great psychodynamic theorists. Freud related this behavior to problems stemming from poor toilet training, but the self-oriented psychodynamic theorists who followed him proposed more generally that people who procrastinate are showing signs of neurotic self-defeating behavior. If you procrastinate, according…

Why students avoid participating or asking questions

Why students avoid participating or asking questions

Having the confidence to try new things & admit when you don’t understand something is a vital part of learning, yet is one many students struggle with. New research has revealed some reasons why students retreat from uncertainty, & how educators can help https://t.co/byrVJGQB2V pic.twitter.com/mvhsEOloyY — Education Central (@EdCentralNZ) January 8, 2018 His research revealed…

Sad Songs Say So Much

Sad Songs Say So Much

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-travelling-apollo/201801/sad-songs-say-so-muchabout-the-listener Both empathy and social contagion involve taking on the perspective of other people. The empathy sub-scale most closely associated with moving sadness was fantasy, which suggests that the ability to identify with the perspectives of fictional characters, and to “lose oneself” in their stories, plays a key role in the ability to be deeply…