Word: psychologistic
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...study began when Elissa Epel, a psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, asked her colleague Elizabeth Blackburn, a biochemist, whether anyone really knew why people under stress look haggard and old. "I told her, 'Nobody has any idea,'" recalls Blackburn. "And then I said, 'Let's have a look.'" They gathered a team of psychologists and biologists and recruited 58 women ranging in age from 20 to 50. Thirty-nine of the women were the primary caregivers for a child chronically ill with cerebral palsy, autism or some other serious disorder; the rest had healthy kids. The researchers...
...games, and he's proud of his two young daughters' soccer skills. But although he began acting as a 10-year-old in Denver, he says he still cringes whenever he sees himself onscreen. In fact, he has yet to watch some of his films. "My father is a psychologist, and he says that's healthy-- you should have some self-doubt," says Cheadle. "If you ever think that you're all there, then that's something to worry about." Maybe it's that kind of common sense that makes Cheadle so understanding of all those regular guys he plays...
...electrodes small enough and computers powerful enough to record scores of individual neurons at once. The goal is to identify the changing patterns of neuronal firing during sleep. "There are days when we can record up to 500 neurons, but that's not typical," says Bruce McNaughton, a psychologist and physiologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who studies rats. More typically, he is able to tap between 50 and 100 neurons. That's not a lot when you consider that even a rodent's brain has 125 million neurons. But it was enough to get him started...
Henry Lesieur, a psychologist at Rhode Island Hospital and former NCRG advisory board member, agreed that the institute’s financial ties to the gambling industry might have an effect on the type of research being conducted...
...consent—which is the primary reason Kelly, the former BGLTSA co-chair, invited Randi Kaufman, a psychologist who works with the Fenway Health Clinic, to speak at the BGLTSA-sponsored workshop...