The Rough Guide to Psychology An Introduction to Human Behaviour and the Mind (Rough Guides)

life, easily fulfilling government recommendations. A month later these cleaners showed health benefits in terms of their weight ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The idea that mere beliefs can lead to physiological changes and reduce disease symptoms seems alm ...

Part VI Psychological problems ...

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Given the dizzying complexity of the human brain, it’s little wonder that things often go wrong in the course of neural developm ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY the characteristics of autism in mild form, but without any speech- or language-delay and who have ...

DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS has designed humane livestock-facilities by drawing on her ability to identify details which can cause ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY five away from the true figure. After TMS, she made six out of twenty guesses that were within fiv ...

DEVELOPMENTAL CONDITIONS ADHD is a controversial diagnosis because it’s made largely on the basis of parents’ and teachers’ repo ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY This finding was followed by another in 2010 by Carmelo Mario Vicario at the Sapienza University o ...

Depression and anxiety Sadness and dark moods, nerves and jitters. We all know what these feel like. But sometimes a line is cro ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY experienced four or more of the following: significant weight gain or loss; difficulty sleeping or ...

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY because depression is known to run in families. Among identical twins, for example, if one of the pair ha ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY Longitudinal research in New Zealand has identified a specific gene which, combined with traumatic ...

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY sense that it feels awful but it serves a useful purpose. Specifically, they say, the excessive ruminatio ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY non-depressed people tend to overestimate how much influence they really have over the light – a k ...

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY focus, the most common of which is social anxiety – worrying about making conversation, making a fool of ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY certain compulsive actions, such as hand-washing or the checking of gas hobs. In 2008, Mary Robert ...

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY A more surprising therapeutic approach was reported in 2009. Emily Holmes at the University of Oxford and ...

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY The cognitive approach, on the other hand, considers the thought processes that underlie anxiety. ...