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Posts tagged with 'research'

Recent research: articles from April journals

13th May 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 14,300 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from March journals

1st April 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 14,100 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: articles from February journals

25th February 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 14,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: six studies on management, health messages, behavioural activation, ACT, expressive writing, and wellbeing

18th February 2010

Here are mixed bag of psychotherapy-relevant studies. Foy & colleagues' meta-analysis highlights the value to patients/clients of having good communication between their primary care physician and their mental health professional. The second paper I mention - free full text - by Mollen et al is a bit of a wake-up …

Recent research: articles from January journals

4th February 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 nearly 14,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: three studies on sex, three on couples, and one on both!

14th January 2010

I recently asked a computer-literate friend how I could encourage more people to visit this blog (thank you to all who already do!). He said "Write more about sex and violence." Ouch. I replied, rather self-righteously, that I wasn't just interested in increasing website traffic for its own sake - …

Recent research: articles from December journals

7th January 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 13,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: six studies on depression - adolescents, heart disease, telephone management, memories, & primary care

10th December 2009

Here are half a dozen recent research papers on depression (all details & abstracts to these studies are listed further down this blog post). The first two are about the well-known Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). There have been a whole series of research papers published on this …

Recent research: articles from November journals

3rd December 2009

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 13,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Recent research: diet associated depression, weight & violence, vitamin D fall prevention, IBS & anxiety, yoga & mindfulness

26th November 2009

Here are a mixed bag of six recent research papers on diet, vitamin D, IBS and yoga (all details & abstracts to these studies are listed further down this blog post). The first three papers highlight the toxic effects on psychological health, physical health, and society of our processed, high …