Mindlinks – An overview of 2014
We are very happy to announce our new column called Mindlinks. Every month we bring you the latest news from the world of Psychology and share a collection of links we find interesting, exciting, or funny. To start with, I would like to share my favorite 14 news items of the year 2014.
- Students prefer electric shocks to thinking
- Stop your cravings by playing tetris
- The story of a woman with antisocial personality disorder
- The girl that couldn’t stop laughing
- Is there a link between gun violence and mental health?
- Psychologists’ role in the CIA’s torture
- Facebook used user’s news feeds for experiment
- The truth about Pavlov
- A new drug to reduce brain cell loss caused by alcohol
- More myths about the brain
- Researchers claim that lost memories could be restored
- A worm in a brain
- The patient without a cerebellum
- Mice with human brain cells
What were your favorite Psychology research news from 2014? Share them with us and add them in the comment section.
NOTE: Image drawn by Anja Ernst and edited by Martin Duchstein
Hanna Lembcke is a third-year student in the International Psychology Bachelor programme in Groningen and takes part in the University’s Honours College. Her interests lie in clinical-, cognitive- and neuropsychology. After finishing her high school degree in Germany, she worked with people with mental disorders and her interest in psychology grew enormously as did the wish to help people in a clinical setting. She became very interested in research during her research internship in the department for cognitive psychology at the RUG. As a student editor of Mindwise, she is eager to make knowledge about psychological research accessible to a broad audience, especially students.
Mental imagery may play a critical role in reducing muscle mass loss after prolonged immobilisation:
http://jn.physiology.org/content/112/12/3219
Conceptualising depression as a form of adaptation: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0112077
Great post, Hanna! Very interesting links; I especially like the one about the patient with a missing cerebellum.
For me, the most exciting news from 2014 was the decision of Dutch Universities not to buckle under the demands of Elsevier and to commit to more Open Access. See here, for example: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/dutch-universities-dig-in-for-long-fight-over-open-access/2017743.article
Looking forward to the monthly news column 🙂
-Tassos