Interesting that I should encounter this just now, while studying my dev psych textbook. Jonah Lehrer over at The Frontal Cortex had a great post a few days ago, which emphasized research into young children’s cognitive abilities. My textbook dates from 2002, and even though each chapter starts with Piaget, the authors acknowledge that his [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Infants’ Surprising Abilities
Posted in Psychology on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Studying Developmental Psychology
Posted in College / University, Personal, Psychology on August 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Probably most of you didn’t even know I have tried my hand at pretending that I’m again doing something that makes it seem like I’m in college again. Oh well, my boyfriend keeps telling me that I am in fact a student, but I don’t consider myself one if I take a year to complete [...]
Theory-of-Mind Task: Would You Pass It?
Posted in Autism, Psychology on August 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Theory of mind is a concept popularized for autism purposes by Simon Baron-Cohen. We are supposed to lack the ability to recognize that other people have a point of view different from our own, while NTs are supposed to be good at taking another person’s perspective. A common illustration of theory of mind involves the [...]
“Quiet Shift!”
Posted in Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on August 18, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I have been reading some nursing blogs lately, and got inspired. As nurses like to note interesting experiences they have with their patients, I like to note interesting experiences I have with nurses. One such experience is the greeting some nurses use to the colleagues when leaving at the change of shift: “Quiet shift!”
This greeting [...]
No Psychiatric Care in Juvenile Prison
Posted in Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on August 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John M. Grohol of World of Psychology comments on the lack of mental health services for juvenile prisoners. Juvenile criminals, of which a great number have one or more mental illnesses and/or substance abuse and are on psychotropic drugs, receive few or no mental health care. It didn’t surprise me, however sad this is. In [...]
Partial-Birth Abortion: Could the Term Be Misleading?
Posted in End-of-Life on August 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While browsing pro-life blogs, I stumbled upon a post about partial-birth abortion. For those who don’t know what this is: it’s an abortion procedure by which the unborn baby is partly delivered and then the skull is crushed. In medical jargon, this procedure is also called intact dilation and extraction (IDE), which is in my [...]
Preschool Depression: The Latest Fashion in Child Psychiatry
Posted in Medication, Psychiatry and Mental Healthcare on August 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Philip Dawdy at Furiosu Seasons wrote a psot last week criticizing the idea that preschoolers get chronic depression. After ADHD, autism and pediatric bipolar, this is probably the next child psychiatry hype big pharma is eagerly profiting from. Note that I’m not saying that these disorders don’t exist – ADHD and autism certainly do and [...]
Comments on Autism and Medication
Posted in Autism, Medication on August 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I went over to Laura at Touched By an Alien: Life as I Know It to submit my disability blog carnival posts – which didn’t work -, and stumbled upon a June 23 post of hers, called Medication and the Autism Spectrum. In this, she writes:
It is always a balance between having the lowest risks [...]
