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if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!male anorexia is a topic that is not talked or written about very much. anorexia in men is reminiscent of males with a history of sexual abuse, another topic that is underdiscussed, underreported and undertreated. perhaps one thing […]

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the last two frozen pea friday entries were a bit more introspective and heavy. today’s post is heavy, too, but only on science. i wanted to see what solutions health psychologists are looking at in terms of frequently occurring problems for cancer patients,e.g. how to talk about cancer, how cancer impacts family life, […]

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in last week’s frozen pea friday post - the weekly post about people dealing with cancer, inspired by susan reynolds and my friends who are dealing with cancer - we alluded to the difficulty of paying for the necessary care needed for people living with cancer. this immediately led me to thinking about the […]

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it’s friday, and frozen pea post time - my weekly post on cancer. today, i’ve put together a guest post about psychological research regarding breast cancer over at GNIF brain blogger. you won’t be surprised to hear that social support contributes to higher survival rates.
two observations are more counter-intuitive, though: it is unclear […]

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today is frozen pea friday, and as usual, i’m writing about cancer.
a friend of mine who just underwent a mastectomy and will most likely get the recommendation to take tamoxifen in the near future was asking some of her friends to do a bit of research for her (remember, sifting through tons of information can […]

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in our last conversation about creativity, jeremy from PsyBlogs talks about the difference between “chaotic” and “ordered” creatives and then moves on to discuss creative blocks.
recently, i came across a doctoral thesis in divinity that talks about the connection between chaos, creativity and spirituality. kurt sander from northern kentucky university points out the important […]

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i just came across this interesting study conducted by the georgetwon medical center.
they injected a neurotransmitter (neuropeptide Y, or NPY) into targeted areas of laboratory animals, thereby reducing the fat that had accumulated there.
the investigators speculate that their findings may lead to better control of metabolic syndrome.
the fascinating part of this is that this is […]

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marc pointed this video out to me. he rightly figured that this would be an ideal thing for me to watch. science and mystical experiences are not mutually exclusive. enjoy! and if you’d like to hear and interview with her, go here.

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jeremy and i are having a cross-blog conversation about creativity. it all started with an article by jeremy that investigated the difficulty with explaining much of the creative process. my thoughts were that important aspects of creativity happen in “murky” places of the mind because it may just be in this very obscurity […]

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this is part 2 of the 14th carnival of eating disorders. part 1 contained posts about anorexia, bulima and general eating disorder topics. part 2 features articles on obesity and overeating and also has a list of further posts that were submitted to this carnival.
GNIF brain blogger discusses two new research studies on […]

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it’s that time of the month again. yes, people, it’s time for the carnival of eating disorders.
this blog carnival showcases blogs that discuss anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder and other issues that people have with food and body image. mostly, i point you to blogs here written by people who have personal and/or […]

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this is the first in a series of blog conversations about creativity with jeremy of PsyBlog, one of the leading psychology blogs.
in a post in january, jeremy wrote
how do great artists create? how do brilliant scientists solve the hardest problems in their field? listen to them try to explain and you’ll probably be disappointed. artists […]

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yesterday, we had a guest post by david about using the law of attraction to lose weight. since david’s and my views are a bit different, i promised you a dialogue about it. so here we go. i will start with some of the ideas with which i agree:
i completely agree that […]

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here we go again - yet another guest post! told ya, this week is guest post week. so let’s go over to vivien’s blog, at inspirationbit. i’m waxing semi-intelligently about the psychological profile of a blogger.
(and that image, it’s by mollyparker)

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this week seems to be guest blogging week.  first hubby yesterday on the mindset of a poker player, and today i’m the guest blogger - over on GNIF brainblogger you can find me writing about some interesting new findings on the connection between concussions and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  enjoy!

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