Affective neuroscience

Trapshooting improves lifelong skills Trapshooting can improve skills ranging from mental skills to eyesight. Trapshooting is good for many of lifelong skills due to the concentration involved in the process of shooting a clay. First trapshooting improves your eyesight because while you are actively looking down the rib of the shotgun searching for the target, your eyes are developing concentration which improves the way you see the target (Tomas, profession in Ophthalmology). Furthermore…

seminar was entitled “Towards a Culturally Informed Social Neuroscience: How Computer Science can Help Untangle Relationships Between Culture, Brain and Health” and was given by Dr. Elizabeth Losin. Dr Losin, is a faculty member in the psychology department and the director of the social and cultural neuroscience lab at UM. The purpose of the seminar was to illustrate the importance of computational methods in the sociocultural neuroscience field. As Dr. Losin explains, advanced computational…

Thank you for sending Renee back to see me just over two years since the last appointment. When last reviewed, Renee trialled modafinil, reaching a dose of 200mg bd, but struggled with it due to nausea and what she believed to be increased somnolence. She did not attend for a follow-up appointment and has battles through with the symptoms over the last couple of years. Her sleep patterns are similar to before in that she is achieving typically eight hours of sleep and is consistently waking…

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Thump, thump, thump, thump. Her heart was beating so fast that it felt as if it were jumping out of her chest. Kate slowly turned around to see Mr. Jacks and his dog make their way through the hanger doors. “Mr. Jacks!” she screamed in disbelief. After hours of waiting in the darkness, she thought that she would never see him again. The blue light glimmered as she saw them emerge from the force field; Mr. Jacks rushed to give Kate a big hug just as the old bulldog covered her entire face…

On the first day of the fishbowl, I did not participate. I was super scared and terrified. I wanted to see how it went before I go in but since that was a practice round. I did not want to look like a fool, not knowing what to do. The second day was a whole different story. I was one of the first group of people that started the conversation. Since I was one of the few that started the conversation, I didn't walk in which it made it less awkward. But when I wanted to get out, I felt rude. I did…

Founder of Child Bereavement UK Shares Insights on Grief An experienced psychotherapist who specialises in grief counselling — Julia Samuel MBE is quite the pioneer in the field of child bereavement. During her role as a bereavement counsellor at St. Mary's Hospital paediatric department in Paddington — she was the first to introduce the discipline of maternity and paediatric psychotherapist. Julia helped launch what was originally called the Child Bereavement Trust in 1994 and is now known as…

The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious unsolved deaths of nine ski hikers in the Northern Ural Mountains on February 2, 1959. Their bodies were found scattered and with weird markings and injuries on them. On February 2, February 1959 9 hikers were found dead by Russian search teams. Most of them had clothes on but some were stripped of their clothes in the frostbitten snow. One case was especially weird. Her name is Lyudmila Dubinina and she was found both naked and mutilated…

Orientation: It was a really quiet night, the cricket neighbours were singing, the wind was howling and you can hear the talk of the loud community. I was Inside the safe and happy building that we call home, eating my hot mushroom stew that my amazing mother Ellen made specially for me, it was kind of disgusting but I could eat my way through it. Ellen was at the really old fire place fire place shovelling coals into the fire, she was sweating l so much She looked like a water fountain. But…

processes cannot be observed. Therefore, from this an alternative method of looking at the physiological side of the brain had to emerge. Cognitive neuroscience was then born to identify the neural mechanisms, which are responsible for underlying cognition. These neural mechanisms are also important when it comes to manifestations in behaviour. Cognitive neuroscience helps to combine the works of cognitive science and cognitive psychology. However, it is important to consider how…