Other than just being much tireder, the brains of insomniacs have some marked differences that may shed a little light on what’s happening and potentially how their condition can be treated. By understanding what’s going on inside the brains of insomniacs we can maybe better understand why they struggle to get to sleep and how …
If you subscribe to an evolutionary description of human psychology, then you will believe that most of our behavioral traits are actually the result of our evolutionary history. We are afraid of snakes because they would have eaten us in the wild. We are altruistic because it’s necessary for us to live in groups. And …
When Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced that they were “consciously uncoupling” but remained good friends, it was greeted with much sniggering and ridicule. Yet, however irritating the phrase may have been, such a calm, even affectionate, divorce is possible. Of course, there are frequently good reasons for anger and hatred; abuse, neglect, and infidelity …
Premature ejaculation is something that many men are concerned about, though it’s actually unlikely in most cases that they are suffering from the clinical definition of premature ejaculation. While there is no completely agreed ‘cut off point’ for what doctors consider to be ‘premature ejaculation’, it is generally considered to be anything within 15 seconds …
In psychology there are numerous different competing ‘schools of thought’ that different theorists and researchers will use to try and explain various psychological phenomena. Likewise, different therapists and psychiatrists will rely on these different models in order to try and understand psychological problems and to help you treat them. While there are many, many different …
A psychosomatic illness is an illness that is thought to have a psychological component underpinning its effects. This is not to say that the condition is by any means invented, as the case might be for a hypochondriac and nor is it to say the condition is actually a mental health issue primarily. Instead then, …
The brain is a strange instrument that is far too complex for anyone to fully understand. While it’s easy to take it for granted when everything is working as it should, its mysterious nature makes itself apparent whenever something goes wrong leading to a wealth of strange effects that are often very difficult to understand. …
Seeing a child leave for college can be one of the proudest, but also most upsetting, experiences a parent ever goes through. Friends and family will bombard you with the usual cliches: “you have to let them go”, “they need to make their own mistakes”, “they have their own life to lead”, and so on. …
Humans are capable of experiencing a huge range of different emotions and feelings and we have seemingly countless words for describing them. Those words don’t quite do them justice often though, which is why we will so often turn to art to express ourselves. In fact, we often don’t even know what a lot of …
Human psychology is actually very predictable when you know a bit about how the brain works and this means that you can often spot when we have had a hand in something. While we might think we can make something look random, we actually fall into a number of traps that draw attention to our …