It’s valuable for students to learn a little bit about the researchers whose names plaster the insides of their textbooks. Each researcher comes from a background that matches that of at least some of our students. We want our students…
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With the number of coronavirus infections rising in a number of locations, it’s particularly disturbing to see how many of those new cases are in young adults (see for example Florida, Texas, and South Carolina). It looks like many young…
In this message, Dr. Gordon joins with 10 other NIH Institute Directors to spotlight NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative — a national call for scientists and organizations to advance their innovative ideas for new COVID-19 testing approaches and…
Johns Hopkins University is offering a free online course through Coursera titled Psychological First Aid. They estimate that the course takes six hours to finish. Course description: Learn to provide psychological first aid to people in an emergency by employing…
Use the APS 2020 (free) Virtual Poster Showcase to expose your Intro Psych students to some original psychological research. For these online discussion questions, students will be looking at posters related to developmental psych, but you, of course, can change…
In this Director’s message, Dr. Gordon describes actions that NIMH is taking to address mental health disparities seen in Black communities and funding success rates for Black researchers. Source: NIH
Instructor Guide for COVID-19 Discussion and Activities accompanying Families Now: Diversity, Demography, and Development Source: macmillan psych community
Researchers funded by NIMH have found that astrocytes, a type of brain cell, can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic out of the brain and into other organs. Source: NIH
In a new paper, published in JAMA Psychiatry, NIMH looks forward, outlining the next stages in the Institute’s suicide prevention research priorities. Source: NIH
Right now, people across the country are currently coping with yet another episode of violence perpetrated against a person of color. In this Institute Update, Dr. Gordon addresses recent events. Source: NIH
From the AARP to politicians to the health care industry to the popular media, there is a lot of concern over the challenges that the U.S. faces taking care of an aging population and the toll it might take on…
Helicopter parent is a phrase that gets tossed around a lot these days, rarely as a compliment. It refers to the idea that modern parents hover over their children, vigilantly paying attention and ready to swoop in to take control…
In 2019, the Congressional Black Caucus convened an emergency Taskforce to examine Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health. The Taskforce released its report in December 2019, highlighting several recommendations for increased research, intervention development, and community engagement. In collaboration with…
I am fascinated by the human tendency to fear the wrong things. We routinely display probability neglect by fretting about vividly publicized remote possibilities while ignoring higher probabilities. Dramatic catastrophes make us gasp, while probabilities we barely grasp. Thus,…
This week, the National Institute of Mental Health unveiled its new NIMH Strategic Plan for Research. In this Director’s message, Dr. Gordon discusses the advances in knowledge and treatment that got us to where we are today and points to…
The Strategic Plan for Research advances the Institute’s mission and helps guide future mental health research efforts. Source: NIH
by Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D., ABPP, D.Litt., NCPsyA He said that I would look bad if I spoke of his behavior towards me. I was silenced. Now I am speaking up. From the end to the middle: Before the final…
by Ruth Lijtmaer, Ph.D. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty of the bad people but the silence over that by the good people” –– Martin Luther King Jr. Psychoanalysis is a survivor of the Holocaust. It was…
A classic moral psychology dilemma invites us to contemplate a runaway trolley headed for five people who are tied to the tracks and destined for death—unless you pull a lever that diverts the trolley to a side track where it…
“If public health officials recommended that everyone stay at home for a month because of a serious outbreak of coronavirus in your community, how likely are you to stay home for a month?” When Gallup recently put this question…