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Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...neurosciences and mental health. Focusing on depression, you will consider key issues concerning diagnosis, causes and interventions. You will also begin to explore theoretical models, biological and psychological explanations, and look at a range of pharmacological and psychological therapies for depression...This free advanced level course, Exploring depression, serves...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postgraduate study in psychology and criminology

...cognitive, social, counselling and forensic psychology includes leadership and distracted driving, motherhood and monogamy, psychotherapy and counselling, and policing and witness interviewing. DD804 Crime and global justice This module is separated into six subject blocks and builds gradually from conceptualisation in the earlier sections towards critical analysis and...
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Can computers be therapists?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can computers be therapists?

...cognitive behavioural therapy (a type of computerised/e-therapy) has been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for adults with mild to moderate depression (NICE, 2009). A number of computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT for short) progams have been shown to be effective in clinical trials and are available, for instance...
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Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Working and Learning In Sport and Fitness

...cognitive stage of athlete competence. Spinning on Ice Progressing to the associative stage of learning and perfecting the new ice-skating skill. Performing Automatically A ice-skater has reached the autonomous stage of learning. Now, the spin is executed with little conscious effort. Reflective Practice Learning to improve your performance. A sports college implements...
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Introducing Health Sciences: The Pain Clinic
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Health Sciences: The Pain Clinic

...cognitive therapies can help control it. This material forms part of The Open University course SDK125 Introducing health sciences: a case study approach... Introducing Health Sciences: The Pain Clinic A short introduction to this album Gate Control Theory Doctors and patients at the Royal Free Hospital's Pain Clinic and at the Real Health Institute explain how chronic...
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Can dogs read their owners' emotions?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can dogs read their owners' emotions?

...cognitive tests based on the presence and behaviour of the owner. This suggests that dogs have evolved the ability to use their human companions as social support systems in unfamiliar situations. So the ability to identify human emotional cues would be a significant addition to this skill. However, dogs are also likely to have learned that if they respond to their...
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The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Amygdala Hijack: Stress Response in Aviation

...cognitive processing (Martin et al., 2016). The speed at which this is processed provides humans with the means of reacting very quickly to a threat, but can produce a multitude of false alarms. This process is known as the ‘quick and dirty’ pathway (Le Doux, 1997). The other way the brain processes startling stimulus is in the neocortex pathway (Mauri, 2018). This is...
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What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...cognitive abilities. Experiments have demonstrated that they can distinguish between different predators (and even human observers) using specific alarm calls, a skill often associated with large-brained animals such as primates. And it seems that they were doing the same with me, identifying my presence as a greater threat compared to other humans in the area. Instead of...
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