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Study: Playing Brain Games Won’t Increase IQ
It seems that playing brain games all the time may not actually make you smarter after all. According to a study conducted by researchers hired by the BBC in the United Kingdom, playing computer games designed to train the brain would not help increase a person’s IQ. The six-week study involved researchers recruiting a total of 11,430 participants that were viewers of the BBC science show “Bang Goes The Theory”. Around 8,600 people with ages ranging from 18 to 60 years old were asked to play onl…
Outdoor Exercise Can Boost Mood
Exercising can help a lot in keeping people physically healthy. A recent study has even suggested that exercise can even affect people in a positive, emotional sense. It seems that exercise can be used to boost up your mood when you feel down.Although a lot have already been said about how exercise seem to help boost up your mood, a recent study might just have shown this to have some facts to support it. Outdoor exercise in as little as 5 minutes a day can actually be effective enough to improv…
The Ethics of Euthanasia
Euthanasia continues to be a highly sensitive issue that still leaves more questions than answers. Euthanasia generally refers to the act of ending life in a painless way for merciful reasons. It has since been called other names- assisted suicide, right to die, death with dignity and many others. It remains controversial in that it involves the taking of life which, as most people generally believe, do not fall in mans’ hands. Euthanasia By ConsentThere are various classifications for euthanasi…
Exercise and Mental Stimulation Boosts Memory
We all know that exercise is good for the aging brain and over all health. Surely the same can be said of mental exercises?According to a report published in Behavioral Neuroscience (August Issue), based on animal testing results, older adults seem to benefit from “either or both mental and physical enrichment.” Behavioral Neuroscience is published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Neuroscientists at Yale University randomly assigned 160 young, middle-aged and old adult (about 3, …
Ethical Research With Human Subjects
A highly sensitive area for ethical research is one that deals with human subjects. Ethical standards for research work involving humans as test subjects are being placed in high regard since such work deals with human lives. Human subjects are usually involved in most medical research work. In order to uphold and preserve the rights of the human subjects, strict ethical standards are usually followed. Personal AutonomyWhen it comes to human ethical research, personal autonomy should be upheld i…
Improving Emotional Health
People suffer through serious mental and emotional health problems due to certain risk factors. These risk factors may occur early on in a person’s life or even later. But all in all, these different factors eventually affect his or her emotional growth and development. They become significant factors on why some people eventually experience certain emotional problems that greatly affect their lives in general. Here are some of them: Poor Parental Connection And AttachmentChildren experiencing p…
Being Bilingual Protects Against Age-Related Cognitive Changes
According to a study, bilingualism or being fluent in two languages may help “prevent some of the cognitive decline seen in same-age monolingual speaking persons.” The findings of this study appears in the Journal of Psychology and Aging (June 2004), the press release of which appears on APA.org. Lead author Ellen Bialystok, Ph.D., of York University said that “crystallized intelligence” or learned knowledge and habitual procedures endure as people get older, but that fluid intelligence or abili…
More Sensitive Test Norms Better Predict Who Might Develop Alzheimer’s Disease
Doctors should come up with better testing norms when examining older people with high IQs for pre-clinical signs of Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a new study which appears in Neuropsychology (January 2004), published by the American Psychological Association (APA).The study reports that higher test cut-offs instead of standard group average gave more accurate predictions about how many highly intelligent people would deteriorate over time.It’s important to diagnose the Alzheimer’s as early as p…
Psychotherapy to Treat Depression
Psychotherapy is one of the more effective methods used to help treat depression. Psychotherapy in itself is a broad field and involves several approaches in trying to treat such a condition. Approaches may include cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal psycho-dynamic therapies and other related types in order to help depressed individuals recover. But whatever the approach being used, this is generally how psychotherapy helps individuals handle and cope up with their depression. Pinpoint D…
Memory Changes in Older Adults
Psychologists who are studying the normal changes of aging found that “simple behavior changes can help people stay sharp for as long as possible, despite change in some aspects of memory. Though researchers are still figuring out what happens to an aging but healthy brain, they can explain some regular changes. Psychologists such as Fergus Craik, PhD, and Timothy Salthouse, PhD, are studying what’s going on, and are compiling their findings. They are also trying to improve on the methodology of…
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