http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/07/juggling_can_change_.html
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The free on-line WMF Human Cognitive Abilities (HCA) archive project was updated today. The major updates included the following:http://kolber.typepad.com/ethics_law_blog/2008/07/choices-and-att.html
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I apologize for being largely MIA on my primary blog. I was traveling and then started suffering major back spasms that limited the time I could sit in a chair and do computer work. I've also been busy trying to finish of a journal manuscript.http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/24/periodic-coffee-tabl.html
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I used to suffer 10-12 of these a year and now am almost migraine
free. The article made sense to me as I used to explain my migraines
as being a major electrical storm in my head, that when done, gave me
a sense of calm...as if someone had hit a brain reset button and
shocked all my neurons back to a clean starting state.
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/07/head_in_a_vice.html
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July 23, 2008
Volume 53, Issue 30
Book Reviews1. Commemorating Brown: The Social Psychology of Racism and Discrimination
Authors: Glenn Adams, Monica Biernat, Nyla R. Branscombe, Christian S. Crandall, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman (Eds.)
Reviewer: Chammie Austin
2. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Author: Sudhir Venkatesh
Reviewer: Robert J. Sternberg
3. Social Anxiety Disorder
Authors: Martin M. Antony and Karen Rowa
Reviewer: Stefan G. Hofmann
4. Existential and Spiritual Issues in Death Attitudes
Authors: Adrian Tomer, Grafton T. Eliason, and Paul T. P. Wong (Eds.)
Reviewers: Louis Hoffman and Nathaniel Granger
5. A Therapist's Guide to EMDR: Tools and Techniques for Successful Treatment
Author: Laurel Parnell
Reviewer: Arnold R Bruhn
6. Maps of Narrative Practice
Author: Michael White
Reviewer: Paul T. P. Wong
7. Sociodrama and Collective Trauma
Author: Peter Felix Kellermann
Reviewer: David Manier
8. Promoting Self-Change From Addictive Behaviors: Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention, and Treatment
Authors: Harald Klingemann and Linda Carter Sobell (Eds.)
Reviewer: Hal Arkowitz
9. Rehabilitation: Beyond the Risk Paradigm
Authors: Tony Ward and Shadd Maruna
Reviewer: Jerome D. Schein
10. Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD: Emotional Processing of Traumatic Experiences: Therapist Guide
Authors: Edna B. Foa, Elizabeth A. Hembree, and Barbara Olasov Rothbaum
Reviewers: Susan P. Stevens and Maha H. Zayed
11. Handbook of Obesity Prevention: A Resource for Health Professionals
Authors: Shiriki Kumanyika and Ross C. Brownson (Eds.)
Reviewer: Marla M. Sanzone
Film Review12. 2 Days in Paris
Director: Julie Delpy
Reviewer: Karen Conner
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July 16, 2008
Volume 53, Issue 29
Book Reviews1. Sex Offending: Causal Theories to Inform Research, Prevention, and Treatment
Authors: Jill D. Stinson, Bruce D. Sales, and Judith V. Becker
Reviewer: Stephen P. Hampe
2. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Smoking Cessation: A Practical Guidebook to the Most Effective Treatments
Authors: Kenneth A. Perkins, Cynthia A. Conklin, and Michele D. Levine
Reviewers: Maria Karekla, Marios Constantinou, and Yianna-Maria Stylianou
3. Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family
Author: Stephen Baskerville
Reviewer: Gordon E. Finley
4. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Author: Naomi Klein
Reviewer: Tod Sloan
5. Healing Tales: The Narrative Arts in Spiritual Traditions
Authors: Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, Leslie Gray, and Adam Kay (Eds.)
Reviewer: Louise Sundararajan
Healing Stories: The Use of Narrative in Counseling and Psychotherapy
Authors: Stanley Krippner, Michael Bova, and Leslie Gray (Eds.)
Reviewer: Louise Sundararajan
6. Physical Illness and Schizophrenia: A Review of the Evidence
Authors: Stefan Leucht, Tonja Burkard, John H. Henderson, Mario Maj, and Norman Sartorius
Reviewer: John W. Newcomer
7. Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment for Education: Theory and Applications
Authors: Jacqueline P. Leighton and Mark J. Gierl (Eds.)
Reviewer: Howard T. Everson
8. Lesbian Motherhood: Stories of Becoming
Author: Amy Hequembourg
Reviewer: Susan Lonborg
9. Creativity, Mental Illness, and Crime
Author: Russell Eisenman
Reviewer: Marlene M. Eisenberg
10. Why Do They Kill? Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners
Author: David Adams
Reviewer: Henck van Bilsen
11. Assessment of Feigned Cognitive Impairment: A Neuropsychological Perspective
Author: Kyle Brauer Boone (Ed.)
Reviewers: James Robert Youngjohn and Michael Lee Thomas
Film Review12. The Brave One
Director: Neil Jordan
Reviewer: Jerry Gold
A copy of Dr. Richard Woodcock's Keynote address (The Evolution of Cognitive Assessments) at the Third National School Psychology Neuropsychology conference (Dallas, July 10, 2008) is now available for viewing as an on-line PPT show (that can also be downloaded). Click here to go to my SlideShare site where this is now available. The slides do not contain everything Dr. Woodcock presented as certain copy-protected information was removed prior to posting. Also, his personal comments/stories about the serendipitous events that brought him to the field of psychoeducational test development are not included in the slides.Sharp Brains has a good post summarizing the recent activity in large
scale computerized cognitive testing. See link below.
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From ENL a study suggesting what prior research has suggested in the
past-boys and girls tax different parts of their brains when
performing certain activities.
http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/smart-girls-smart-boys.html
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http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2008/07/musical-ability-is-it-all-just-practice.html
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July 9, 2008
Volume 53, Issue 28
Book Reviews1. Mirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
Authors: Giacomo Rizzolatti and Corrado Sinigaglia
Reviewer: Michael C. Corballis
2. Chronic Pain
Authors: Beverly J. Field and Robert A. Swarm
Reviewer: Timothy S. Clark
3. The Future Is Now: Science and Technology Policy in America Since 1950
Authors: Alan I. Marcus and Amy Sue Bix
Reviewer: Stephen D. Nelson
4. Politics in the Human Interest: Applying Sociology in the Real World
Authors: William Du Bois and R. Dean Wright
Reviewer: E. James Lieberman
5. The First Man-Made Man: The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
Author: Pagan Kennedy
Reviewer: Gregory Lehne
6. Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Authors: Janet R. Matthews and Barry S. Anton
Reviewers: Annette M. Brodsky and Susan Steinberg-Oren
7. Dire Emotions and Lethal Behaviours: Eclipse of the Life Instinct
Author: Charles T. Stewart
Reviewer: Marilyn Newman Metzl
8. Treating Childhood Behavioral and Emotional Problems: A Step-by-Step, Evidence-Based Approach
Author: Andrew R. Eisen (Ed.)
Reviewer: Linda C. Caterino
9. Authentic Assessment for Early Childhood Intervention: Best Practices
Author: Stephen J. Bagnato
Reviewer: Michi Fu
10. The Handbook of Person-Centred Psychotherapy and Counselling
Authors: Mick Cooper, Maureen O'Hara, Peter F. Schmid, and Gill Wyatt (Eds.)
Reviewer: Ladislav Valach
11. Handbook of Multicultural School Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Giselle B. Esquivel, Emilia C. Lopez, and Sara Nahari (Eds.)
Reviewer: Carlton W. Parks
Film Review12. The Namesake
Director: Mira Nair
Reviewer: Theresa A. Thorkildsen
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I just stumbled across a journal I had not seen before (Human Movement Science) that has a recent special issue devoted to developmental motor/coordination disorders. I simply have no degrees of freedom to add these articles to my "to do" reading list...so I'm just providing this FYI for others. As per the CHC theory/model of human abilities, this area of human functioning would reside under the broad CHC domains of Gps (psychomotor speed) and Gp (psychomotor abilities)
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July 2, 2008
Volume 53, Issue 27
Book Reviews1. The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills
Author: Alan E. Kazdin, with Carlo Rotella
Reviewer: Thomas H. Ollendick
2. The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror
Author: Stephen Holmes
Reviewer: David P. Nalbone
3. Multiculturalism Without Culture
Author: Anne Phillips
Reviewer: Mary Dugan
4. The Matter of the Mind: Philosophical Essays on Psychology, Neuroscience, and Reduction
Authors: Maurice Schouten and Huib Looren de Jong (Eds.)
Reviewer: Thomas Leahey
5. Handbook of Cultural Psychology
Authors: Shinobu Kitayama and Dov Cohen (Eds.)
Reviewer: Albert Valencia
6. Identity and the Modern Organization
Authors: Caroline A. Bartel, Steven Blader, and Amy Wrzesniewski (Eds.)
Reviewer: Leehu Zysberg
7. Healing With Stories: Your Casebook Collection for Using Therapeutic Metaphors
Author: George W. Burns (Ed.)
Reviewer: Moshe Landsman
8. Integrating the Mind: Domain General Versus Domain Specific Processes in Higher Cognition
Author: Maxwell J. Roberts (Ed.)
Reviewer: Michael Hogan
9. Personality Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence
Authors: Arthur Freeman and Mark A. Reinecke (Eds.)
Reviewer: Andrea Barnes
10. Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
Authors: Hoyle Leigh and Jon Streltzer
Reviewers: Jennifer Steel and Mary Amanda Dew
Video Review11. Adolescent Girls Who Are Suicidal
with David A. Jobes
Reviewer: Lesley Slavin