Wednesday, April 3, 2013

SOME INTERESTING ARTICLES

The following articles were published this week regarding some topics of interest for Psychology Classes. If you want to explore them further, feel free to use them as a basis of one of your research assignments!

Rising Diagnosis of ADHD: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/health/more-diagnoses-of-hyperactivity-causing-concern.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0- explores the problem of over-diagnosis and the danger of not following the diagnostic process appropriately.

One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/us/cuckoos-nest-hospital-is-now-a-museum.html explains what is happening to the place where the infamous movie about an insane asylum was filmed.

BRAIN: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/president-obama-brain-mapping-project-not-ideal gives a good example fo the scientific debate regarding President Obama's propiosed brain mapping project. This is the kind of debate that emerges whenever their is an attempt to move forward on any major scientific endeavor.




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