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		<title>Drug use memories and relapse: Can medication provide addiction help?</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/drug-use-memories-and-relapse-can-medication-provide-addiction-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi Jaffe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted on allaboutaddiction.com:
About a year ago, while sitting in a lecture on learning and memory, the idea that certain drugs can affect the emotional responses to memory long after the memory itself has been formed came up. As someone interested in addiction research, the implication for treatment immediately came up in my head:

Could we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=144&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perils in obtaining a Ph.D.</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/perils-in-obtaining-a-ph-d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khumphreys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by the recent article by Louis Menand in this issue&#8217;s Harvard Magazine. Essentially, for many academic fields the length of time to obtain a Ph.D. and the potential prospects for finding a tenure-track academic job is enough to make one who desires further academic inquiry to question whether the Ph.D. is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=140&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>brain mapping disorders</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/brain-mapping-disorders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khumphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADHD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ever growing number of studies feature brain mapping to illustrate structural differences in the brain based on grouping those with and without a given disorder. Techniques such as structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can aid in researchers understanding of differences in shape and volume of various brain regions. Group differences are often found, yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=137&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare savings and alcohol and drug abuse treatment: Saving lives and money</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/healthcare-savings-and-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-treatment-saving-lives-and-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi Jaffe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug abuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From allaboutaddiction:
A recent paper put out by an initiative called Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap (CATG) talks about some of the cost savings benefits that go along with alcohol and drug abuse treatment. The numbers refer to current treatment methods, success rates, etc., so the savings should only go up as we become more successful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=134&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More money more problems? Rich teens, drugs, and other mental health issues</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/more-money-more-problems-rich-teens-drugs-and-other-mental-health-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi Jaffe</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug abuse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General psychology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From allaboutaddiction.com:
Teens raised in affluent homes display the highest rates of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse according to a recent article in Monitor on Psychology, the APA&#8217;s monthly magazine.
One of our recent posts dealt with some of the issues unique to teens and drugs. In addition to the issues we&#8217;d already mentioned, the article named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=125&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ethics of Neuroenhancement</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/the-ethics-of-neuroenhancement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>saphireburning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drug abuse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ADD]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent issue of the New Yorker featured a wide-ranging and engagingly written review of the current controversy over the ethics of neuroenhancement. Neuroenhancement refers to the growing trend of off-label use of psychiatric drugs by men and women of all ages and backgrounds for the purpose of boosting their brain power and ability to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=122&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Control is important, and teachable to some extent</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/self-control-is-important-and-teachable-to-some-extent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khumphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General psychology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Self-control or behavioral disinhibition has been implicated in a number of psychiatric disorders, including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). It may be a mediating factor responsible for the lowered academic performance found among many children with ADHD.
The ability to inhibit responses may predict academic performance even better than IQ. This New Yorker article reviews studies of self-regulation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=119&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One example of how animal research can help humans</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/one-example-of-how-animal-research-can-help-humans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 16:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khumphreys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Human and animal studies have found that brains go through substantial
synaptic pruning during childhood, removing approximately half of all synapses until puberty. While the pruning of synapses is a natural process, some researchers have theorized that schizophrenia arises from excessive pruning (Siekmeier &#38; Hoffman, 2002). Presuming schizophrenia is a disorder of disruptions in neural connectivity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=114&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disclose or not? The catch 22 of mental illness</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/disclose-or-not-the-catch-22-of-mental-illness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adi Jaffe</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent report published by SAMHSA addresses the issue of self-disclosure regarding mental illness.
Research has already shown that the more familiar people are with others who have different form of mental illness, the more their attitudes regarding mental illness will improve.
The problem is that in the process, those who self-disclose fear being ostracized, losing their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=110&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Defeat may play a causal role in schizophrenia</title>
		<link>http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/social-defeat-may-play-a-causal-role-in-schizophrenia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>khumphreys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://psychinaction.wordpress.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ethnic minority groups have higher rates of schizophrenia than the general population. My first thought was that the differences were genetic. Current research has found a strong genetic component to schizophrenia, and given that different ethnic groups may have different rates of high risk genotypes, the genetic variation between groups may be in part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=psychinaction.wordpress.com&blog=3492978&post=105&subd=psychinaction&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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