| Neuroscience
and Psychotherapy - what's
the connection? |
| CCPE
Lecture notes (zipped Word
files - download here) |
| Synapse
animation here |
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| Suggested
Readings: |
| Wonderful
science primer by the novelist
Ian McEwan - from his introduction
to: What We Believe But
Cannot Prove: Today's Leading
Thinkers on Science in the
Age of Certainty, edited
by John Brockman (2005, Free
Press) here
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"The
Myth of 'Infant Determinism'"
A must-read article for anyone
who works wth children, by
Helene Guldberg.
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA71B.htm |
The
Cradle of Thought: Exploring
the Origins of Thinking
by Peter Hobson
Amazon
UK |
| While
I'm at it, here's a good article
by Oliver James on the complicated
causal relationship between
parenting, society and child
development. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-2030784,00.html |
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Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder
links: |
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1
National Centre for PTSD
(USA) |
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2
J. Douglas Bremmer -
if you get a chance to
hear Dr Bremmer lecture,
don't miss it. |
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3
CNN Report |
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| Other
Links |
| Cannabis
and mental health - opinions
following a longditudinal study
in Sweden |
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1
Zammit and Allebeck paper
in the British Medical
Journal |
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2
UKCIA Report |
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3
Review of Marijuana
and Madness by D
Castle and R Murray (editors)
Cambridge University
Press |
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| Neuro Links |
Eric
Chudler's excellent neuroscience
for kids site - University
of Washington (Seattle)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/ehc.html
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Washington
University Saint Louis - Tutorial
on Neuroscience
http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/ |
Brain
& Nervous system
http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookNERV.html#The%20Brain |
The
Neuron
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/neuron.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron |
The
Action Potential
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/neural/actionpotential.html
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Neurogenesis
http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Concepts/Html/neurogenesis.html |
Neurogenesis
in adult humans
http://www.nature.com/neuro/web_specials/supp_info/nm1198_1313/index.html |
The
Triune Brain Hypothesis of
Paul Maclean
http://www.ezls.fb12.uni-siegen.de/mkroedel/paul_maclean.html |
Organization
of the Nervous System
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/PNS.html |
Excerpt
from Norbert & Elinore
Herschkowitz' book A Good
Start in Life
http://babiestoday.com/resources/articles/babiesbrain.htm |
Fatty
acids and children's mental
health
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/intelligenceandmemory/omega_three.shtml |
Sex
differences in thinking
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050120_brain_sex.html |
Antonio
Damasio
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/damasio.html |
Joeseph
LeDoux
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/corefaculty/LeDoux.php |
Steven
Rose reviews Guy Claxton in
the Guardian (Claxton
warns against basing child-related
policy on "findings"
in neuroscience - at least
for now)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1389815,00.html |
Joseph
Levine - The Explanatory Gap
http://cognet.mit.edu/posters/TUCSON3/Levine.html |
Thomas
Nagel's paper "What
is it like to be a Bat?"
http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/Nagel_Bat.html |
Dave
Chalmers's essay on the "hard
problem" of consciousness
"Facing Up to the Problem
of Consciousness"
http://consc.net/papers/facing.html |
Hunting
for the Neural Correlates of
consciousness - book review
by Stuart Hammeroff (a quantum
man)
http://www.sci-con.org/articles/20041102.html
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Wikipedia
entry on Consciousness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
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Chalmers'
website - papers and links
http://consc.net/chalmers/ |
Richard
Feynman on Science
http://eduweb.brandonu.ca/~science/feynman.htm |
Philosophy
of science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science |
Scientific
method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method |
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| More
Stuff |
Eliza
- the AI Therapist - amusing
and intriguing
http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
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Critical
Thinking in Psychology
http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/courses/psych104/think.htm
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Tuscon
2006 - Centre for Consciousness
Studies - University of Arizona
bi-annual conference
http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/Tucson2006.htm
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