Posts tagged with 'cbt'
Recent research: articles from February journals
3rd March 2011
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
New NICE guidance on the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia)
10th February 2011
In January, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on the care and treatment of adults with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) or panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia). This guideline updates and replaces their 2004 one (which was itself amended in 2007). …
Recent research: articles from January journals
3rd February 2011
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: memory and the autobiographical self 1
10th January 2011
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." Mark Twain I wrote last month about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in his recent book - "Emotions and …
Recent research: articles from December journals
6th January 2011
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 2
3rd January 2011
I wrote an initial blog post last month on "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview". I commented that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 1
20th December 2010
I wrote last week about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and autobiographical self". I mentioned that …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: overview
13th December 2010
I first came across Professor Antonio Damasio's work in 2001 at the "7th European Conference on Traumatic Stress" in Edinburgh. One of the main plenary speakers talked about Damasio's ideas as expressed in his earlier books "Descartes' error: emotion, reason and the human brain" and "The feeling of what happens: …
Recent research: articles from November journals
2nd December 2010
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 15,300 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: 2 on frequency of psychological disorder, and 5 on using books, phones & computers to deliver CBT
10th November 2010
Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page). The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question. The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence …