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650,000 Hours/3 Billion Heartbeats

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:October 27, 2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

There are many ways to quantify a human life. Here are two.

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Alcohol Consumption: A Leading Cause of Preventable Death

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:October 26, 2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

The impact of alcohol on global health is hard to encapsulate. In Never Enough: The Neuroscience of Addiction, author and neuroscientist Judith Grisel does her best to highlight the deadly consequences of excessive alcohol consumption.

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Relationship Advice from Jerry Seinfeld’s Is This Anything?

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:October 9, 2020
  • Reading time:4 mins read

Spanning five decades, Seinfeld’s Is This Anything? covers everything from bumper cars and cotton balls to Facebook and COVID-19.

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Dr Joanna Moncrieff: The Vast Majority of People Who Take Psychiatric Drugs Derive Little or No Benefit From Them

Read more about the article Dr Joanna Moncrieff: The Vast Majority of People Who Take Psychiatric Drugs Derive Little or No Benefit From Them
  • Post category:Psychiatry
  • Post published:October 8, 2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

Whilst promoting a new edition of A Straight Talking Introduction to Psychiatric Drugs, Dr Joanna Moncrieff summarised her stance on psychiatric drugs.

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Physicist Sean Carroll On ‘The Mistake We Make’

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:September 29, 2020
  • Reading time:2 mins read

In The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, physicist Sean Carroll reminds readers of a mistake we’re all prone to making.

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Science Fiction Author Robert Heinlein On Happiness

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:September 28, 2020
  • Reading time:2 mins read

In the sci-fi novel, Starship Troopers, author Robert Heinlein shares his secret to a happy life.

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FDA: Updated Labeling for Benzodiazepines ‘to Include Abuse, Addiction and Other Serious Risks’

Read more about the article FDA: Updated Labeling for Benzodiazepines ‘to Include Abuse, Addiction and Other Serious Risks’
  • Post category:Psychiatry
  • Post published:September 27, 2020
  • Reading time:2 mins read

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced labeling changes for benzodiazepines.

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Psychologist Paul Watzlawick’s ‘Blasphemic Remark’

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:September 26, 2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

In the 1990s, psychologist Paul Watzlawick was conducting a training seminar when he made the following controversial remarks.

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Waiting For Your Turn to Speak

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  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:September 25, 2020
  • Reading time:1 mins read

'When people think you’re dying, man, they really, really listen to you instead of just—'

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Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on Addiction: Quitting is the Rule, Not the Exception

Read more about the article Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld on Addiction: Quitting is the Rule, Not the Exception
  • Post category:Psychology
  • Post published:September 24, 2020
  • Reading time:2 mins read

Psychiatrist Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld offer hope to those struggling to overcome a dependence on drugs in their book, Brainwashed.

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