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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention
The Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Convention will be held November 15 - 18, 2012 in National Harbor, MD. For more information visit: http://www.abct.org/Members/?m=mMembers&fa=Convention
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49th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society
The 49th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society will be held June 10 - 14, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information visit: http://animalbehaviorsociety.org/absmeetings/
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Crisscrossing Senses
Ever wonder what the number 5 tastes like? What color is G sharp? Or what type of personality does January have? If you were a synesthete, you might be able to answer these questions. Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. More recently, scientists have speculated that babies are born synaesthetes and slowly lose those sensory connections as neurons are pruned as their brains develop. A recent article from Psychological Science Synaesthetic Associations Decrease During Infancy, provides some evidence for this theory.
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Developmental Rerouting
Scientists often think of the adult brain as being “modular,” containing many systems that each specialize in a given function like language or number, relatively independent of one another; this explains why damage to the mature brain in adults tends to impair certain brain functions while leaving others intact. However, Annette Karmiloff-Smith believed that this modular framework cannot be applied to the developing brain.
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Be Nice To Yourself
Prevention: “Be kind to yourself.” If you keep good company, someone has probably uttered these words to you at some point, maybe during a particularly hard spell, or at a time when you were being a little too harsh on yourself. It’s always sound advice—irksome though it may be to hear at the time—but new research published in Psychological Science reveals it’s especially apropos when you’re dealing with a broken heart. Self-compassion, according to researchers, may just be the secret to bouncing back after a breakup. In the study, researchers met with recently divorced people to assess how they were coping.
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Caminar, hacer figuras con las manos, alinear objetos, ayuda a solucionar problemas
El Sol de Mexico: Reconozco que soy un autista que trascendió esa condición mediante la palabra, la escritura y, de haberme dedicado al dibujo y la pintura, igual habría superado esa condición. Autista sí porque desde pequeño jugaba a solas, con decenas de clavos, todavía no tenía soldaditos de plomo, que extendía sobre el piso y formaba ejércitos enfrentándose en batallas. Alineaba los clavos: la fila de infantería, la caballería detrás y, a los lados, los batallones en forma de triángulo. Dos ejércitos. Y pronunciaba los diálogos y las órdenes de la batalla. Un día descubrí un vendedor de soldaditos de plomo y fui comprándole decenas de ellos, poco a poco, hasta tener un ciento o más.