Vaughan Bell

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First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

How Much Do Helmets Help?

Probably less than you think :People who are forced by legislation to wear a bicycle helmet … may not wear the helmet correctly, seeking only to comply with the law and avoid a fine. Secondly, their behaviour may change as a consequence of wearing a helmet ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 17 2013]
First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Locking Down Your Smartphone Won’t Make You Interact With the “Real World”

Do you find it impossible to resist the siren’s call of your smartphone? Do you find that the gaze of the glowing screen saps all your attention away from the world? Do you wish there were an app for this intractable problem? Well, you’re in luck! The ... [Published Slate Magazine - Jun 12 2013]
First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 2 reports

A Photographic Memory

Vaughan Bell passes along a spooky story about a Parkinson’s patient whose hallucinations persisted even in photographs:Patient 1 was first evaluated at age 66, having been diagnosed with PD [Parkinson's Disease] at age 58… She complained of daytime and ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 06 2013]
First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 2 reports

Four short links: 29 May 2013

Notable Release, SVG Library, Modular Robot, and Factchecking Politicians Will Not WorkQuick Reads of Notable New Zealanders — notable for two reasons: (a) CC-NC-BY licensed, and (b) gorgeous gorgeous web design. Not what one normally associates with ... [Published OReilly Network - May 29 2013]
First reported May 28 2013 - Updated May 28 2013 - 1 reports

Nick Ross and the menace of the self-guiding penis

Nick Ross said his book 'raises powerful and important challenges to conventional thinking about crime'. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Two years ago Naomi Wolf wrote an essay for CNN.com headlined: "Is pornography driving men crazy?" She declared that men are ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 28 2013]
First reported May 27 2013 - Updated May 27 2013 - 1 reports

Ruins of people’s lives

The shadowy subculture of gang stalking.In 1919, the psychoanalyst Viktor Tausk published his famous paper “On the Origin of the ‘Influencing Machine’ in Schizophrenia”, in which he wrote about patients who believed they were under the control of malign ... [Published New Statesman - May 27 2013]
First reported May 25 2013 - Updated May 25 2013 - 1 reports

Brain Scans Could Predict Criminal Behavioural Patterns, Claims Scientists

Share article A leading neuroscientist says that brain imaging of murderers and violent criminals can be used to predict the likelihood of them re-offending and guide parole decisions.Adrian Raine, of Pennsylvania State University, claims that new experiments ... [Published International Business Times UK - May 25 2013]
First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

Leaving Bad Enough Alone

Vaughan Bell cautions against “psychological debriefing,” a single-session therapy treatment intended to help trauma victims process their experience:In our trauma-focused society, it is often forgotten that the majority of people who experience the ravages ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 21 2013]
First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Curses!

Melissa Mohr, author of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing , discusses profanity with the Boston Globe’s Ideas section: IDEAS: Are there… old curses that 21st-century people would be surprised to hear about? MOHR: Because [bad words] were mostly ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 18 2013]
First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Downplaying The DSM

The director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Thomas Insel,  announced last week that the NIMH will no longer rely on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), a longtime guidebook for psychiatry: While DSM ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013]
First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Can we learn to be “colourblind”?

Abstract: Probably not. Psychology tends to take a rather gloomy view on racism: that we automatically categorise people on the basis of race, and there’s little that can be done about that. So I was interested to read this article by Vaughan Bell, ... [Published Another angry woman - Apr 30 2013]
First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 07 2013 - 1 reports

Vaughan Bell: news from the borders of mental illness

New research is challenging polarised views of how best to define, diagnose and treat conditions such as schizophreniaWhen the psychologist Peter Chadwick explained that he was trying to research psychosis he was given short shrift by one of his patients. ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 07 2013]

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How Much Do Helmets Help? [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 17 2013]
How Much Do Helmets Help? [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 17 2013]
Locking Down Your Smartphone Won’t Make You Int... [Published Slate Magazine - Jun 12 2013]
A Photographic Memory [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 06 2013]
A Photographic Memory [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 06 2013]
Four short links: 29 May 2013 [Published OReilly Network - May 29 2013]
Four short links: 29 May 2013 [Published O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - May 29 2013]
Nick Ross and the menace of the self-guiding penis [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 28 2013]
Ruins of people’s lives [Published New Statesman - May 27 2013]
Brain Scans Could Predict Criminal Behavioural ... [Published International Business Times UK - May 25 2013]
Leaving Bad Enough Alone [Published Atlantic Monthly - May 21 2013]
Leaving Bad Enough Alone [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 21 2013]
Curses! [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 18 2013]
Downplaying The DSM [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 11 2013]
Can we learn to be “colourblind”? [Published Another angry woman - Apr 30 2013]
The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry – ... [Published PharmaGossip - Apr 07 2013]
Vaughan Bell: news from the borders of mental i... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 07 2013]
Truthiness Serum [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 22 2013]
Scrub your brain of these "folk neuroscience" m... [Published Boing Boing - Mar 06 2013]
Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we... [Published 3quarksdaily - Mar 06 2013]
Let neuroscience be cool — without over-selling it [Published Boing Boing - Feb 25 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 23 2013]
Holiday Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 19 2013]
Unknown Highs [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 16 2013]
Dopamine isn't "the pleasure chemical" [Published Boing Boing - Feb 13 2013]
Happy Meals, Ctd [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 06 2013]
Happy Meals [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Feb 05 2013]
The Chocolate Connection [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 25 2012]
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How Much Do Helmets Help? [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 17 2013]
Probably less than you think : People who are forced by legislation to wear a bicycle helmet … may not wear the helmet correctly, seeking only to comply with the law and avoid a fine. Secondly, their behaviour may change as a consequence of wearing ...
A Photographic Memory [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 06 2013]
Vaughan Bell passes along a spooky story about a Parkinson’s patient whose hallucinations persisted even in photographs: Patient 1 was first evaluated at age 66, having been diagnosed with PD [Parkinson's Disease] at age 58… She complained of daytime ...
Four short links: 29 May 2013 [Published O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and researc ... - May 29 2013]
Quick Reads of Notable New Zealanders — notable for two reasons: (a) CC-NC-BY licensed, and (b) gorgeous gorgeous web design. Not what one normally associates with Government web sites! svg.js — Javascript library for making and munging SVG images. ...
Leaving Bad Enough Alone [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 21 2013]
Vaughan Bell cautions against “psychological debriefing,” a single-session therapy treatment intended to help trauma victims process their experience: In our trauma-focused society, it is often forgotten that the majority of people who experience ...
Curses! [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - May 18 2013]
Melissa Mohr, author of Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing , discusses profanity with the Boston Globe’s Ideas section: IDEAS: Are there… old curses that 21st-century people would be surprised to hear about? MOHR: Because [bad words] were mostly ...
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