Professor and clinical psychologist Jonathan Weiss of 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Health is the new Chair in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Treatment and Care Research, the federal government announced聽Monday at 91亚色. The chair, which will receive some $2 million in funding over five years, will study ways to improve the mental health and well-being of […]
Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) experience higher rates of bullying, which聽are聽associated with a higher incidence of mental health issues, according to a study in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders this month by 91亚色 researchers. 鈥淰ery little research has been done to assess the relationship between bullying and mental health in youth with […]
Teenage boys who experience 鈥減ersistent鈥 pain aren鈥檛 all that fazed by it 鈥 at least not compared to girls 鈥 a 91亚色 study finds.聽 The study, conducted at the Ontario Science Centre, looked at more than 1,000 children and adolescents from ages聽eight to 18. While boys and girls reported the same frequency of persistent […]
Research sheds light on human belief in Friday the 13th, Bigfoot, fate, heaven and hell It was during this week, in the lead-up to today鈥檚 supernaturally inclined date of Friday the 13th, that I learned the similarity between believing in Bigfoot and believing in The One, wrote columnist Micah Toub in The Globe and Mail […]
Some 24 outside agencies came to the inaugural 91亚色 Autism Research Alliance鈥檚 Research Showcase at 91亚色 last week to hear what researchers were working on 鈥 everything from isolating three to 20 genes potentially responsible for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) to looking at how children with ASD process visual and auditory information. 鈥淭he take home […]
The recognition that emotions such as fear can drive investment choices is a relatively new one. Classical economics long viewed people as hyper-rational. But in the 1960s, a new 铿乪ld called behavioural economics emerged to show that鈥檚 far from the case, reported Macleans.ca Dec. 1: Julie Tyios was already a savvy investor by her mid-20s, […]
Narcissists and those with low self-esteem gravitate toward Facebook as a self-promotional tool and tend to be heavier users of the site, according to a study by a 91亚色 psychology student. Soraya Mehdizadeh examined the online habits and personalities of 100 Facebook users at 91亚色 ranging in age from 18-25 years old. Her […]
When 91亚色 psychology Professor Leslie Greenberg (PhD '96) was first developing his emotion-focused therapy (EFT) approach, he was bucking a trend that put the emphasis on controlling and suppressing emotions, rather than working with them. That was in 1986. Today, EFT is catching on as a therapeutic approach of choice and therapists are coming to […]
The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying, reported The New 91亚色 Times July 24: About 8,000 Chinese-born women gave birth in New 91亚色 last year, so the number of children at risk is substantial, according to […]