• CBT Intervention Delivered by Non-Specialist Providers Significantly Reduces Risk of Postpartum Depression

    Updated: 2025-02-19 13:00:27
    Skip to content Search About Mission Statement Staff Our Publications Location Support Our Program Join Our Team Contact Us Specialty Areas PMS PMDD Fertility Mental Health Psychiatric Disorders During Pregnancy Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders Breastfeeding Medications Menopausal Symptoms Blog Clinical Program Research Program Educational Program Resources For Patients For Providers Resources in the Boston Community Emergency Services Contact Contact Us Support Our Program Search Results for phrase results_count of results_count_total Displaying results_count results of results_count_total Generic filters Exact matches only Search in title Search in content Search in excerpt CBT Intervention Delivered by Non-Specialist Providers Significantly Reduces Risk of Postpartum Depression Previous

  • Life sets off a cascade of machines

    Updated: 2025-02-17 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 17, 2025 Life sets off a cascade of machines A fascinating PNAS article by Tiusty and Libchaber offers an oversimplified language of life . 8217 It is a long article , but I found it a very worthwhile read . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . Here I pass on the Significance and Abstract paragraphs , and the first figure . nbsp Significance This paper follows an idea by Leibniz that life can be seen as an infinite cascade of machine-making machines , down to atomic machines . It proposes an oversimplified language of life , highlighting certain scaling aspects

  • The perceptual primacy of feeling

    Updated: 2025-02-14 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 14, 2025 The perceptual primacy of feeling A fascinating perspective from Conwell et . al open source Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visually evoked affect : nbsp Significance Human visual experience is defined not only by the light reflecting on our eyes sensation but by the feelings affect we feel concurrently . Psychological theories about where these feelings come from often focus mostly on the role of changes in our bodily states physiology or on our conscious thoughts about the things we are seeing cognition Far less frequently do these

  • The Coup has already happened.

    Updated: 2025-02-12 13:39:00
    It's a Coup! o to dogegov.com and click on articles in the drop down menu to learn about our new masters.  

  • Even more cheerful reading....on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy.

    Updated: 2025-02-12 06:00:00
    : . . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 12, 2025 Even more cheerful reading . on civilizational war and oligarchic technocracy . I hesitate to add to the ongoing flow of negativity in the infosphere , nbsp but I will pass on my edited ChatGPT 4o summaries of articles by Venkatesh Rao and Timothy Snyder I think they describe our situation in appropriately dire terms . Rao argues that contemporary U.S . politics has shifted from a culture war” to a civilizational war , 8221 and suggests that Trump and Musk’s faction has undergone this shift by becoming more disciplined and warlike , while Democrats remain stuck in an

  • Study Reveals Potential Biomarkers for Postpartum Depression Risk

    Updated: 2025-02-11 13:00:17
    Skip to content Search About Mission Statement Staff Our Publications Location Support Our Program Join Our Team Contact Us Specialty Areas PMS PMDD Fertility Mental Health Psychiatric Disorders During Pregnancy Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders Breastfeeding Medications Menopausal Symptoms Blog Clinical Program Research Program Educational Program Resources For Patients For Providers Resources in the Boston Community Emergency Services Contact Contact Us Support Our Program Search Results for phrase results_count of results_count_total Displaying results_count results of results_count_total Generic filters Exact matches only Search in title Search in content Search in excerpt Study Reveals Potential Biomarkers for Postpartum Depression Risk Previous Study Reveals Potential Biomarkers for

  • We are towers of fantasies

    Updated: 2025-02-10 06:00:00
    Another cryptic clip from my personal journal:We are built of predictive fantasies at every level of our being - from single cells up through transient professional identities that seamlessly feedback down into and vitalize the physical body and nervous system that sustains them. We make each identity for ourselves by inferring what models are being performed by others, hopefully not doing total mimesis of one style, but rather cutting and pasting to come up with our own ‘unique’ personas.

  • Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates

    Updated: 2025-02-07 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 07, 2025 Structural and Cognitive Mechanisms of Group Cohesion in Primates I pass on the abstract of a draft version of a new article by Robin Dunbar that I am reading through . It will appear in Behavioral and Brain Sciences . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article by emailing me . nbsp Group-living creates stresses that , all else equal , naturally lead to group fragmentation , and hence loss of the benefits that group-living provides . How species that live in large stable groups counteract these forces is not well understood . I use comparative data on grooming

  • A human machine writes

    Updated: 2025-02-05 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 05, 2025 A human machine writes Scanning back through previous MindBlog posts , I came across the following paragraph what I wrote and posted on 7 24 24 I like it , and decided to post it again : Machinery here , pushing down keys of another machine , generating words , just like a human does . Much simpler than pretending to be one . Just nerves , muscles , and energy fluxes in and out . Curatorial rather than aspirational . Cooperating with other similar machines to make larger ensembles more effective at survival and replication . Generating a word cloud stored in higher brain

  • “Now Is the Time of Monsters”

    Updated: 2025-02-03 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 03, 2025 Now Is the Time of Monsters” I pass on links to two articles in the same vein , one by Ezra Klein the other by Ventkatesh Rao with Klein noting how we are facing four epoch-changing events , any one of which could utterly change the world we have know for the past 70 years . nbsp Both articles cite the writing of the Marxist Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci , who wrote a well know sentence usually translated as The old world is dying , and the new world struggles to be born : Now is the time of monsters . 8221 Rao offers the following graphic of the : transition Klein

Current Feed Items | Previous Months Items

Jan 2025 | Dec 2024 | Nov 2024 | Oct 2024 | Sep 2024 | Aug 2024