Archive: Psychology
Brain Game
Boy, do I feel dumb. I've just spent the last two minutes trying to remember where this little bird last popped up amidst the foliage on my computer screen while also trying to remember what letter appeared on the screen before the bird disappeared. It's a ridiculous thing to be...
By Jennifer Huget | July 11, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (2)
After Traumatic Event, No Need to Spill Your Guts
We health bloggers read an awful lot of scientific studies. Most of the ones I read confirm a hunch, telling us something we already thought we knew. Some actually turn up bona fide discoveries that open exciting new fields of inquiry and knowledge. But my favorites are the ones that...
By Jennifer Huget | June 3, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
Sad Over Sex and the City
Is it just me, or are other women out there feeling kind of left out? From the sound of it, every woman in the nation is ganging up with three of her best girlfriends to go see the Sex and the City movie when it opens this weekend. The New...
By Jennifer Huget | May 30, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (5)
A New Market for ADHD Treatment?
Seems as though everyone was reporting yesterday on a new study published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (one of the British Medical Journals). The study found that among 7,075 adult workers ages 18 to 44 from 10 countries, folks who reported symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) worked an average...
By Jennifer Huget | May 28, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (39)
