Brain Awareness Week will take place this year between March 10–16. Sponsored by the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives, the week’s activities are designed to “advance public awareness about the progress and benefits of brain research.” The first Brain Awareness Week occurred in 1996, and has grown to include world-wide Read more…
When we first moved to San Luis Obispo in 1984, I quickly tired of having to repeat my “this is autism” lecture every time my youngest daughter, Karla, needed medical or educational services. None of the “experts” had any clue as to what they were seeing. Fortunately, having received my Read more…
One of my pet peeves as a psychologist is the misuse of correlational data. In spite of the best efforts of hoards of professionals in statistics and the behavioral sciences, we continue to see the misinterpretation of correlational data. A real doozy came across my desk this morning. Apparently, Derek Read more…
Restaurants, including fast food chains, generally have calorie information available for consumers. However, they’re not always posted where people notice them much. NYC health officials are now insisting that calorie counts go right up there on the menu. One 1500 calorie hamburger, coming up! The officials are hoping that people Read more…
Socioeconomic status has long been believed to play a role in standards of weight. After all, it was the Duchess of Windsor who famously proclaimed, “A woman can’t be too rich or too thin.” Eating disorders, anorexia nervosa in particular, are more common among white, middle to upper-class women [1]. Obesity, Read more…