Psychology

Words Do Hurt- Verbal Stimuli Put Our Pain Memory On Alert

Researchers from Jena University in Germany say it is not only painful memories and associations that put our pain memory on alert, words can do the trick as well. "Even verbal stimuli lead to reactions in certain areas of the brain", says Dr. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2010 - 1:09pm

Figured out and Ignored while in plain sight-that is autism!

Unexpected context, So much for inventing motors or figuring out Autism Found on the web, from Stumble-upon So much for solving autism, inventing computors (Alan Turing 1912-1954), motors or simply overcoming the curse of Rain Man, if Joshua Bell could no ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Mar 30 2010 - 2:41pm

Informed People Make Poor Choices, Study Says

Despite understanding the long term benefits of eating healthy and exercising,  people often forgo these potential gains for the immediate satisfaction of a big mac and a night of cable TV. What makes people go for the quick reward even though they know th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2010 - 11:22am

Smokers Dumber Than Non-Smokers?

Tracking 18- to 21-year-old men enlisted in the Israeli army, researchers from Tel Aviv University say they have demonstrated an important connection between the number of cigarettes young males smoke and their IQ--young men who smoke are likely dumber tha ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2010 - 6:50pm

Video games: A parent's best friend

When I was the president of an international private coeducational boarding school for teenagers with dyslexia and other kinds of learning disorders, I was frequently asked by parents to curtail their children's use of video games. I often wondered wh ...

Blog Post - James Moon - Apr 3 2010 - 3:40pm

Autism Awareness-Pain tolerance

A loose quote or two from and old Autism of America  handout sheets that were pre Rain Man. "Non cuddly babies that will not move to be comfortable in mothers arms" "pain toleance- shows no reaction to pain"  Of course with normal peop ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:53pm

Does Christianity Encourage Racism?

Psychologists at Baylor University say that people primed with Christian concepts are likely to express  racial prejudice and general negative views toward African-Americans. The researchers don't know why the association exists but speculate that it ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2010 - 4:40pm

autism Hero invents Computer /WWII hero

Alan Turing 1912-1954 Alan Turing an autisitc guy from the glory days of Autism before the Rain Man Era Curse was able to absently overcome autism and like many of us learned a different kind of human thought process the results were OUTSTANDING-he was fa ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 11 2010 - 12:53pm

Testing For Autism Pain Tolerance

From the dark ages of autism when we did some sort of traditional life.  Experience is the only teacher in life and the experts of autism just can't fathom the ideal (nor can contemporary medicine) of a pain free human.  Perhaps we were the circus act ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Apr 14 2010 - 12:23pm

Surging Autism Diagnoses Driven By Social Influence

The surging number of autism diagnoses is driven in part by social interaction between parents, according to a study published in the American Journal of Sociology. The study found that children living near a child who has been previously diagnosed with au ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 23 2010 - 11:59am