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...relying on advances in neuroscience and psychopharmacology. Useful links: Improving Mental Health through Social Support: Building Positive and Empowering Relationships Psychiatry in Context: Experiences, Meaning and Communities Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry, and Political Economy The Mental Health Foundation Critical Psychiatry Network Hearing Voices Network...

...cognitive. In other words, it affects our muscles, bones, joints, our brain as well as all other organs. Our brain is in a sense a central computer where everything that is happening in our bodies and minds gets processed. It is interesting that our brain consumes around 20% of all glucose and 20% of all oxygen consumed by the whole body. [old man with a shovel (asian)]...

...cognitive functioning (resistance to disconfirming evidence, tendency to circular thinking, attributional styles, etc.) to see whether conspiracism is underpinned by some intrinsic perceptual or reasoning deficit which leads people to misunderstand or misinterpret causal relations in the world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has...

...Cognitive Psychology, Wrexham Glyndŵr University Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic, neurodegenerative disorder that affects over 137,000 people in the UK, and an estimated 5million people worldwide. The symptoms of PD are characterized by tremor, muscle stiffness and rigidity, movement fatigue, and balance and gate disturbances, accompanied by cognitive impairment....

...cognitive skills such as attention, memory and learning. 2: Sleep Dysregulation [woman asleep with her smartphone] Many of us use our phone at bedtime. You get into bed intending to go to sleep, but you just want to check your phone (just for ‘a second’) to find out something innocuous like tomorrow’s weather... and then an hour later, there you are watching a...