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Why do people who stutter have less difficulty singing than speaking?
Short answer
Singing increases the duration of voiced intervals in stutterers.
Background
Singing is an example of one of the most effective methods to decrease stuttering* (Stager, 2003). It is a so-...
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how can the development of sexual preferences be influenced?
A bit of background on me: I’m a clinical psychologist and have worked with many sexual disorders, ranging from paedophile, to gender identity disorder. I am however no expert in any of these, so my ...
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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Limitations
I came across this question whilst researching CBT for a course I am studying.
The short answer
As I will cover in the long answer, there has been a lot of articles stating that CBT is very effective, ...
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Why is the initial first-line response to a psychological problem not a brain scan?
The first stop when a non-emergency medical issue evolves is, as you say, a visit to the GP. This is not a supplement to diagnosis. Instead, a visit to the GP can be a critical step in the treatment ...
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Is "gaslighting" a mainstream concept in the cognitive sciences?
The wikipedia article you linked to regarding the term Gaslighting has references to clinical and research literature.
Dorpat, (1996) talks about the incidences of Gaslighting conducted by therapists....
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Cannot find a journal paper on a study on caffeine, even though it is registered at clinicaltrials.gov
Short answer
Haskall et al., The effects of L-theanine, caffeine and their
combination on cognition and mood, Biol Psych (2008); 77: 113–22.
Background
Here's some of the detective work I've done:
The ...
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Are a lot of highly logical people (such as mathematicians) prone to depression?
Overall, based on my limited research it appears there is no evidence that people who are more logical are more likely to experience depression. There is a theory that people who see the world more ...
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Double blindedness in a fully remote trial
Double blind basically consists when the patient does not know to which condition it belongs (control, treatment A, treatment B) and the professional does not know to which group he/she is ...
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Are social anxiety disorder and selective mutism classified as communication disorders?
One thing to remember is that classification systems, especially in the field of psychology, are not absolute. All human brains search for patterns and attempt to label them in a way that makes it ...
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Is there a conflict between Mindfulness-based and Acceptance-based Therapies and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)?
I don’t really have much in the way of scientific evidence for combining the two. I have, however, information from personal experience that many therapists tend to combine the two approaches with ...
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What is the effectiveness of self-prescribed marijuana for depression?
Question 1: I am unaware of any studies directly addressing the epidemiology of self-medication with cannabis in cases of treatment-resistant depression (it seems like that is what you are asking ...
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What are the standard mental health tests that are available online?
There's no "standard" on-line test for mood disorders. The only standard one is [semi-]structured evaluation (e.g. SCID-5) by a mental health professional.
With that disclaimer aside, there are some ...
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Cannot find a journal paper on a study on caffeine, even though it is registered at clinicaltrials.gov
See Caffeine at levels found in decaffeinated beverages is behaviourally active Appetite Volume 50, Issues 2–3, March–May 2008, Page 559.
It's just a conference abstract though.
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Rationale behind an “all-or-nothing” design for a test for the purposes of diagnosis and epidemology
Many construct scales are developed with relatively little attention to the content. Researchers may start with a large set of candidate questions, versions, formats, and phrasings, and then through ...
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How do clinicians control for their own mental disorders?
Clinical Supervision (see these articles on effectiveness) is standard practice and required in codes of practice for registered counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, etc. and ...
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Do people who experience a psychotic episode ever go back to normal?
Short answer
Because some neuroses can involve psychotic episodes, it depends on the cause of the psychotic behaviour.
Longer Answer
When looking at the difference between neuroses and psychoses, ...
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How are the logical and mathematical skills of people with ADHD?
How do the rationality and logical thought processes those with and without ADHD compare? Please explain the source of this difference. Is the difference thought to be caused by dopamine, serotonin or ...
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Using CBT for a justified fear?
CBT stands for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (I mention this because in the thrill of learning it, the "B" part is often ignored or forgotten). CBT integrates aspect of both cognitive psychotherapy and ...
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Double blindedness in a fully remote trial
If the investigator knows what group the subject is in and then has any interaction with the subject, it is not double blind since the investigator can, potentially unintentionally, influence the ...
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What is the current status of Paraphrenia?
Paraphrenia is a late-onset mental disorder similar to schizophrenia in that it features the positive symptoms of the disease, such as delusions and/or hallucinations, but lacks the negative symptoms, ...
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Examples of interventions that yield large long term effect sizes in psychology
Skill acquisition: If you take a novice on a task and get them to practice that task, performance will tend to improve. See the Power Law of Practice. In many cases that I've seen, the difference ...
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Resources about relaxation training as used in CBT
As I mentioned previously in the comments, there are a wide range of relaxation techniques which can be used within CBT. Having not read the book mentioned, I looked it up and found how the ...
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Are there any benefits to having Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
I'm guessing that OCD correlating with conscientiousness is probably an advantage. The 2015 study by Inchausti et al. that made this finding had other anxiety disorders as controls. I don't know if ...
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Would a diagnosis from a layman be legitimate if it follows the definition of the disorder?
Here are some basics on the diagnostic process:
There are two main sources of disagreement in
assessing psychiatric disorder or, as Feinstein
(1985) wrote, 'two different phases of the
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Cases of psychopathy
Psychopathy and the MacDonald triad
Just keep in mind that psychopathy is often used as a more popular term for the characteristics of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (Davey, 2014). The three ...
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What is the difference between personality disorder and other types of mental illness?
There may not be one:
it is impossible to conclude with confidence that personality disorders are, or are not, mental illnesses; there are ambiguities in the definitions and basic information ...
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Default Mode Network and: hyper-connectivity, hypo-connectivity, interconnectivity and intraconnectivity
The default mode network (DMN) is a collection of brain structures identified in human functional neuroimaging.
Specifically, a type of neuroimaging called BOLD indirectly measures local metabolism in ...
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Term for how anxiety makes people think abnormally?
A general term is cognitive distortion:
... an exaggerated or irrational thought pattern involved in the onset
or perpetuation of psychopathological states, such as depression and
anxiety.
Not sure ...
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