International Psychoanalysis

Click here to read: “A Richard Life by Seeing the Glass Half Full” by Jane E. Brody’s from The New York Times on May 21, 2012.

Click here to read: “Drugs Help Tailor Alcoholism Treatment” by Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times on May 21, 2012.

Click here to watch: “You’ve Got Paul J. Zak” via AOL.com, which features neuroeconomist Paul J. Zak explaining the role of  oxytocin in allowing humans to feel more trust and love for one another.

Dr. Zak is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University. He is also credited with the first published use of the term “neuroeconomics” — a discipline that integrates neuroscience and economics.

Click Here to Read: Paralysed woman moves robot with her mind by Nature Video on YouTube.

Click Here to Read: Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds by Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 16, 2012.

Click here to read “Psychoanalyzing Facebook’s ‘Like’ Button” by Quentin Fottrell from SmartMoney.com on May 18, 2012.

Click here to read “French Autism Treatments: Children in the European Country Mostly Get Psychotherapy” by Marie Cheng from the Associated Press on May 18, 2012.

Click Here to Read:  ‘This is the cost of being human’: The same genes that allowed modern humans to evolve speech may cause autism. Part of brain that recently evolved helped us speak and make complex decisions also responsible for ‘Fragile X’ syndrome, leading cause of inherited autism By Rob Waugh on the Daily Mail website on May 14, 2012.

Click here to read: Emotion Can Shut Down High-Level Mental Processes Without Our Knowledge, in Our Native Language from ScienceDaily on May 8, 2012.

Click here to read: In Sitting Still, a Bench Press for the Brain by John Hanc in The New York Times on May 9, 2012.

Click here to read: Depression in middle age linked to dementia by Amanda Gardner on Health.com on May 8, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Erasing Painful Memories: Drug and Behavioral Therapies Will Help Us Forget Toxic Thoughts,  The caustic imprint of a traumatic memory may fade or vanish with new drug and behavioral therapies By Jerry Adler in Scientific American on May 10, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Knowing Your Way Around by Alva Noe on the NPR website on May 4, 2012.

Click Here to View: Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break on the Sixty Minutes website on April 29, 2012. Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.

Click Here to Read: Nora Volkow on the Wikepedia website.

Click Here to Read: Insights From the Youngest Minds By Natalie Angier in the New York Times on April 30, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Neuroscientists discover key protein responsible for controlling nerve cell protection. Findings could lead to new therapies for stroke and epilepsy in a Eureka Alert Press Release.

Click Here to Read: Earth Day: Discussing the Coming Climate Crisis With Heidi Cullen Record-breaking heat. Floods. Droughts. Tornadoes. Don’t believe the skeptics—the evidence of climate change is all around us. An interview with climatologist Heidi Cullen on the Daily Beast website on April 22, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Veterans and Brain Disease By Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on April 25, 2012.

Click Here to Read: Neuroscience of need: Understanding the addicted mind By Bruce Goldman Photographs by Kelly Hennigan on the Stanford Medicine website.

Click Here to Read: Changing The Brain to Enhance Well-Being, Happiness By Rick Nauert PhD  Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on the PsychCentral website on April 19, 2012.

Click Here to Read: A humble fish helps us understand our  own brains By Angela Herring  in Neuroscience on April 19, 2012.

Biology professor and chair Günther Zupanc (right) published results in the journal Neuroscience today demonstrating the mechanism by which new neurons find home