Links

Exposure to messages in the mainstream media that attribute negative qualities to overweight people made them less able to control their eating, rather than more able to do so.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20140109/UCSB-psychology-professor-finds-that-weight-stigmatizing-messages-may-have-the-opposite-effect.aspx

A book about anxiety and its biological, psychological, and genetic determinants, written by a “quivering, quaking, neurotic wreck” of an author, Scott Stossel.  Book review by David Adam.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7482/full/505157a.html

Middle-aged and older adults consistently underreport mental health issues, leading to a flaw in the existing research on the topic.  Article written by Rick Nauert, Ph.D.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/01/09/mid-life-mental-health-issues-may-be-more-common-than-reported/64271.html

New data on the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral treatment for bulimia.  Article written by Traci Pedersen.

http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/12/08/for-bulimia-cbt-beats-psychoanalysis/62998.html

A history of phrenology, and how it may be similar to America’s current focus on popular neuroscience.  Article written by Erika Janik.

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/the-shape-of-your-head-and-the-shape-of-your-mind/282578/