Phineas Gage's connectome - The Guardian (blog)


The Guardian (blog)
Phineas Gage's connectome
The Guardian (blog)
Anyone who has studied psychology or neuroscience will be familiar with the incredible case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had a metre-long iron rod propelled straight through his head at high speed in an explosion.

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Cutting Edge: Behind Sailing at Portland - Dorset Echo

Cutting Edge: Behind Sailing at Portland
Dorset Echo
Portland's double Olympic medallist sailor Simon Hiscocks will be on the panel, along with event chairman and sport scientist Professor Steve Haake, sailing expert Professor Glen McHale and Dr Judith Wolf, an expert in coastal modelling of tides and ...

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Vogue agrees to outlaw grossly thin models - Telegraph.co.uk


Telegraph.co.uk
Vogue agrees to outlaw grossly thin models
Telegraph.co.uk
Vogue magazine, perhaps the world's top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy models, ...

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Holly over the moon with Miss Universe title - This is South Wales

Holly over the moon with Miss Universe title
This is South Wales
Holly Hale, 21, who is a first- year psychology student at Cardiff University, won the title during a ceremony at the town hall in Birmingham. The student, who hopes to one day become a clinical psychologist and open her own private practice, ...

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Fighting back against unhealthy obsession - The West Australian


The West Australian
Fighting back against unhealthy obsession
The West Australian
Vogue magazine's recent declaration that models who were too young and too thin were out of fashion was applauded by a US eating disorder expert visiting Perth last week. For psychotherapist Carolyn Costin, who founded the Monte Nido residential eating ...

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"mBraining" -- New book shows how to harness the power of your three brains ... - PR Web (press release)

"mBraining" -- New book shows how to harness the power of your three brains ...
PR Web (press release)
Informed by the latest Neuroscience and utilizing techniques and concepts from NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Cognitive Linguistics, Postive Psychology and the field of Behavioral Modeling, Oka and Soosalu have produced leading edge models and ...

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Roomi Syed: The multitasking Miss Pakistan - The Express Tribune


The Express Tribune
Roomi Syed: The multitasking Miss Pakistan
The Express Tribune
Having studied Psychology and Law, Syed dreamt about being a judge one day, but she dashed those dreams when in order to pursue modelling. She was discovered at the age of 16 and was crowned Miss Pakistan the same year in 2006 at the Asia-Pacific ...

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When humanity came second to research - Eureka Street


Eureka Street
When humanity came second to research
Eureka Street
Has the tradition of the crude and often cruel laboratory experiments, conducted in the name of psychology explained the human psyche to us? Has it brought us the understanding of how low humanity might sink, or of the importance of love?

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Bruna bytes - The Hindu


The Hindu
Bruna bytes
The Hindu
Model-turned-actor Bruna Abdullah has no qualms talking about her past or problems that plague film industries the world over. The widely-travelled Brazilian model, who now plays one of the heroines in “Billa 2”, a big budget Tamil film starring Ajith, ...

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Birmingham student named UK's curviest woman - Minuteman Press (blog)

Birmingham student named UK's curviest woman
Minuteman Press (blog)
... were targeted with the leaflets advertising the Ms Curvaceous UK 2012 contest, a modelling competition aimed at uncovering the next plus-size model stars. The eventual winner, Simone Charles, is studying psychology in Birmingham in her second year.

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