The MindFields College Blog

I get the weekly PsychCentral e-newsletter and it is always full of interesting content.
This week, there was an article I’d like to share on creative thought, how people problem solve and how this relates to left and right hemisphere activity:
Researchers have long wondered if people who think creatively are somehow different from those who tend […]

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What are you imagining for 2007?
About 40,000 years ago the human brain suddenly developed the capacity to make a mental image of the future, an essential tool for imagination and creativity.
A team at Washington university report that they have been able to capture with MRI scans which areas of the brain (the left lateral premotor […]

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Our College Principal, Ivan Tyrrell, explains why depressed people wake up still feeling exhausted and tired and discusses the link between depression and dreaming.
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Posted by: Eleanor

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Here is some background from our Human Givens Institute website on the origins of the human givens approach. I thought it would be interesting reading for people new to the concept who might be visiting this blog:
It is now commonly realised that there is a core set of principles for stabilising the human mind, creating […]

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Hot off the press, the very first delivery of the next title in our ‘Essential help in troubled times - the human givens approach’ series has just arrived.
We experienced a lot of anxiety ourselves in getting this book to print, so it’s very satisfying to finally be able to hold a copy!
Here’s some further information […]

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Anyone who worries unconstructively is in danger of clinical depression. Depression is not selective - to take recent examples from the media: the famous, single mothers, politicians, men, women are all susceptible to depression.
When you worry incessantly about something which can’t be immediately solved or is circular, you generate unresolved emotional arousal. Once an […]

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An amazing entry from the blog of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert cartoons, gives us an example of the tremendous power of expectation and the plasticity of the brain.
Adams had suffered for 18 months from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a disorder in which the part of the brain that controls speech essentially shuts down. Adams relates […]

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In last Thursday’s post we introduced how addiction occurs when natural pleasure response processes get out of control. [Sorry I’ve not had a chance to post the follow up until now - it’s been a busy few days!]
It is clear that intellectually, you can tell yourself shouldn’t be doing something bad for you as […]

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For the third consecutive year, Brighton and Hove has had the most drug related deaths anywhere in the UK.
24.2 per 100,000 people died from drug related deaths in the city (that’s 51 people in a single year period), compared with the second worst area, Dumbarton, which had only 13.4 per 100,000 people.
Living in the city […]

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Juvenile hamsters on low doses of Prozac are more aggressive than adult hamsters.
In a study worth reading by Tavarosh-Lahn, Bastida and Deville at the University of Texas - it was noticed that rates of aggression in male golden hamsters decreased naturally throughout the juvenile stage of their development. Hamsters are often used in studies […]

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