A Review of The Power of Habit: Why We do What We do in Life and Business
The Power of Habit: Why We do What We do in Life and Business, by Charles Duhigg In this highly readable work, Duhigg advances the idea that much of behavior…
Is Alan Sroufe Ph.D. right? Do Stimulant Medications actually fail to benefit children with ADHD?
In an Op-Ed piece in this Saturday’s (January 28, 2012) N.Y. Times, professor L. Alan Sroufe, Ph.D, professor emeritus, of psychology at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development,…
Do Fish Oil Supplements Help with ADHD? A warning to not jump to conclusions!
This month (January 2012) Consumer Reports posted an article on their website “Is fish oil right for you?”. In this article the authors suggest that “Although the evidence isn’t overwhelming,…
Does Working Memory Training Work?
What is working memory?: For those unfamiliar with the concept working memory is a higher order, or more complex cognitive ability, involving the capacity to hold ideas or concepts or…
What makes us better? A new study calls into question our understanding of change
A recent study about a so called “honest placebo” has received a good deal of attention. This study is particularly intriguing because unlike other studies of placebo interventions the participants…