The San Diego Tribune has a thorough article on how H.M.'s brain is being handled, and the projects that the Brain Observatory has ongoing. Gerry http://www3.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/nov/30/hm-recollected-famous-amnesic-launches-bold-new-br/ Gerard T. Barron, Psy.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Mercyhurst College 501 East 38th St. Erie, PA 16546 Office:814-824-3375 E-mail: gbarron @mercyhurst.edu ________________________________________ From: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) digest [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 10:01 PM To: tips digest recipients Subject: tips digest: December 02, 2009
TIPS Digest for Wednesday, December 02, 2009. 1. RE: nifty psych gift 2. =?windows-1252?Q?Smart_people_can_make_dumb_decisions=2C?= =?windows-1252?Q?_says_Grawemeyer_Award_winner_=97_Universit?= =?windows-1252?Q?y_of_Louisville?= 3. RE: Smart people can make dumb decisions, says Grawemeyer Award winner - University of Louisville 4. HM brain dissection: Live, 8am PT 5. Re: Music Therapy Requirements? 6. Re: HM brain dissection: Live, 8am PT 7. Re: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question 8. RE: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question 9. Re: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question 10. Help with hysteria 11. Re: Help with hysteria 12. H.M. online 13. RE: Help with hysteria 14. Re: H.M. online 15. RE: H.M. online 16. Re: Help with hysteria 17. RE: H.M. online 18. Re: Help with hysteria 19. Re: H.M. online 20. Re: H.M. online 21. RE: H.M. online 22. Kinsey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: nifty psych gift From: Allen Esterson <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:48:19 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 On 2 December 2009 Scott Lilienfeld wrote: >I know at least one person who works at the Kinsey Institute, and >she does quite good science. Although founded by Kinsey, I don't >believe the Institute harbors any strong allegiance to his methods >or his work. My understanding is that the Institute is now a pretty >rigorous consortium of researchers conducting research on human sexuality. Thanks for the inside information, Scott. Still, it is unfortunate that as recently as 1998 the then Director of the Kinsey Institute, Dr John Bancroft, defended Kinsey's use of detailed diary material from, in particular, two serial child sexual abusers, Rex King (on whose "work" is based Chapter 5 in "Sexual Behavior of the Human Male") and the Nazi paedophile Fritz von Balluseck. Details of Kinsey's co-operation with and encouragement of these two serial child sexual abusers are given in the UK Channel 4 documentary "Kinsey's Paedophiles" broadcast in 1998: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8606305708018993332 Rex King's diaries meticulously record his experiences with over 800 boys and girls: babies (youngest 2 months), infants and children. Kinsey encouraged King in his endeavours, writing to him "I congratulate you on your research spirit." King's diaries show he continued his predatory sexual abuse of children for some ten years after Kinsey first met him. According to the Channel 4 documentary, Fritz von Balluseck had been a senior Nazi Party official, a pre-WW2 Stormtrooper, and had commanded a ghetto in a Polish town during the war. Kinsey contacted Balluseck, who sent him some of his detailed diaries that he had kept of his abuse of children. When Balluseck went on trial in the 1950s for suspected murder of a child (on which charge he was acquitted) information about his collaboration with Kinsey emerged. (Balluseck pleaded guilty to 30 allegations of sexual abuse of children.) When questioned about this material, including meticulous details from King on the abuse of babies and infants, Dr Bancroft said that people have to ask themselves if they believe that research into human sexuality should be undertaken. Pressed further on the question of the continuing abuse by the paedophiles in question after being contacted by Kinsey, Bancroft said you should consider the cost of remaining in ignorance unless we know about these behaviours. How (unvalidated) reports of vile sexual abuse of babies and infants, recorded in meticulous detail, enlarges our knowledge of human sexuality, Dr Bancroft failed to enlighten us. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org ---------------------------------- RE: [tips] nifty psych gift Lilienfeld, Scott O Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:07:59 -0800 BTW, I don't know what "soon" science is (interesting Freudian slip on my part, perhaps?). Having trouble typing on my little laptop. Should be "good" science (thank you Sigmund....)......Scott ________________________________________ From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:01 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] nifty psych gift I know at least one person who works at the Kinsey Institute, and she does quite soon science. Although founded by Kinsey, I don't believe the Institute harbors any strong allegiance to his methods or his work. My understanding is that the Institute is now a pretty rigorous consortium of researchers conducting research on human sexuality. ....Scott ________________________________________ From: Allen Esterson [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:44 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] nifty psych gift I think it's time to introduce a serious note to all this seasonal jocularity. Sue Franz linked to the Kinsey Institute: http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/research/ak-hhscale.html I have no knowledge of the current activities of the Kinsey Institute, but I think it is unfortunate that the name Kinsey remains a byword in the field of sexual research. I have the impression that there has been a reluctance to take a critical stance towards the famous Kinsey claims by some people because at the time (and later) much of the criticism has come from conservative groups concerned about the influence of the Kinsey Report on social attitudes in the States. But, as NPR has noted, "the most damaging critiques focused on his sampling method, questioning whether the enormous number of people he interviewed -- his pride and joy -- were representative of the American population. Indeed this was not an idle question, given Kinsey's predilection for recruiting college students, prostitutes, and prison inmates to participate in the study." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/peopleevents/e_male.html Again: "In 1948, the same year as the original publication, a committee of the American Statistical Association, including notable statisticians such as John Tukey, condemned the sampling procedure. Tukey was perhaps the most vocal critic, saying, "A random selection of three people would have been better than a group of 300 chosen by Mr. Kinsey." [Refs] Criticism principally revolved around the over-representation of some groups in the sample: 25% were, or had been, prison inmates, and 5% were male prostitutes. [Ref.] "A related criticism, by some of the leading psychologists of the day, notably Abraham Maslow, was that Kinsey did not consider 'volunteer bias'. The data represented only those volunteering to participate in discussion of taboo topics. Most Americans were reluctant to discuss the intimate details of their sex lives even with their spouses or close friends. Before the publication of Kinsey's reports, Dr. Maslow tested Kinsey's volunteers for bias. He concluded that Kinsey's sample was unrepresentative of the general population. [Ref] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports#Objections_to_methodology Not to mention ethical considerations. Kinsey's reporting of masturbation of children as young as two months was described in a letter to the "Archives of Sexual Behavior" as "the only example in Western scientific literature where egregious abuse of human subjects has been accepted as a valid data source by scientists wishing to be taken seriously." http://www.springerlink.com/content/ut266g0v73hg6006/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org ------------------------------------------------------------- RE: [tips] nifty psych gift Frantz, Sue Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:27:59 -0800 Guess where your friends and family fall on the Kinsey Scale, and get them a t-shirt. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/scale_tshirt.html That couldn't possibly go wrong. -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Project Syllabus APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology APA's p...@cc Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Smart_people_can_make_dumb_decisions=2C?= =?windows-1252?Q?_says_Grawemeyer_Award_winner_=97_Universit?= =?windows-1252?Q?y_of_Louisville?= From: "Christopher D. Green" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:25:24 -0500 X-Message-Number: 2 Two days. Two Canadian psychologists win the Grawemeyer. Keith Stanovitch today. http://grawemeyer.org/news-updates/smart-people-can-make-dumb-decisions-says-grawemeyer-award-winner Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: Smart people can make dumb decisions, says Grawemeyer Award winner - University of Louisville From: "Lilienfeld, Scott O" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:16:31 -0500 X-Message-Number: 3 Wonderful news. Can't think of many people more deserving of this prestigious award than Keith Stanovich, who has done a wonderful job of educating students and the public about scientific thinking. A great recognition for Stanovich, and a great recognition for the importance of critical thinking in psychology. ....Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 8:25 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Smart people can make dumb decisions, says Grawemeyer Award winner - University of Louisville Two days. Two Canadian psychologists win the Grawemeyer. Keith Stanovitch today. http://grawemeyer.org/news-updates/smart-people-can-make-dumb-decisions-says-grawemeyer-award-winner Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) ________________________________ This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: HM brain dissection: Live, 8am PT From: "Frantz, Sue" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:39:25 -0800 X-Message-Number: 4 Hi all, You can watch HM's brain being thin-sliced, happening live: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php They started yesterday, reaching the corpus callosum. They plan to resume at 8am PT today. (Thanks to the Teaching High School Psych blog for the announcement: http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/12/live-hms-brain- being-dissected.html) -- Sue Frantz <http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/> Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Project Syllabus <http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology <http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> APA's p...@cc Committee <http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptatcchome.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Music Therapy Requirements? From: "Amadio, Dean" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:07:17 -0500 X-Message-Number: 5 As an undergraduate music major with an increasing interest in psychology, it made sense for me to consider music therapy. Then I realized it was basically a dual major - music/psychology (at least at my undergraduate institution) and the advanced musical skills needed for activities in that career were far below what was expected of you as a music major. It really didn't make a lot of sense to me - and it still does not! The resources others have already provided are probably the best ones for your student. Dean M. Amadio, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Siena College, Psychology Department 432 Roger Bacon Hall 515 Loudon Rd. Loudonville, NY 12211 Phone: (518) 782-6768 Fax: (518) 783-2986 [email protected] >>Subject: Music Therapy Requirements? From: "Wehlburg, Catherine" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:24:15 -0600 X-Message-Number: 12 Fellow TIPsters, An undergraduate student (majoring in music composition) and taking my general psychology course, has decided that he is interested in learning more about becoming a music therapist. Are there programs for this? Licensing requirements? Any insight that you have that I can share with my student would be much appreciated. Thank you! --Catherine<< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: HM brain dissection: Live, 8am PT From: Claudia Stanny <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 10:14:16 -0600 X-Message-Number: 6 Great resource, Sue! Thanks for posting this! Claudia Stanny ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question From: Ken Steele <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:03:43 -0500 X-Message-Number: 7 It looks like they are using a cryosection procedure instead of a wax-embedded preparation. Does anyone know why? Ken Frantz, Sue wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > You can watch HM’s brain being thin-sliced, happening live: > http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php > > > > > -- > Sue Frantz > <http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/> > Highline Community College > Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA > 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director > > Project Syllabus <http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> > > APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology > <http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php> > > > > APA's p...@cc Committee <http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptatcchome.html> > --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] Professor and Assistant Chairperson Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question From: "Shearon, Tim" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:25:47 -0700 X-Message-Number: 8 Ken- Because they can? :) (Sorry, I didn't have time to read but I suspect they say somewhere on the site- I suspect it is just how they are set up/ what they are used to doing, etc.) Tim -----Original Message----- From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:04 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] HM brain dissection: Live - technical question It looks like they are using a cryosection procedure instead of a wax-embedded preparation. Does anyone know why? Ken Frantz, Sue wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > You can watch HM's brain being thin-sliced, happening live: > http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: HM brain dissection: Live - technical question From: Steven Specht <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:39:32 -0500 X-Message-Number: 9 With a brain as large as a human brain, it's difficult to do in paraffin (although not impossible). It also typically involves first pumping some kind of preservative (e.g., formalin) through the circulatory system first. On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote: > Ken- Because they can? :) (Sorry, I didn't have time to read but I > suspect they say somewhere on the site- I suspect it is just how > they are set up/ what they are used to doing, etc.) > Tim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 11:04 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] HM brain dissection: Live - technical question > > > It looks like they are using a cryosection procedure instead of a > wax-embedded preparation. Does anyone know why? > > Ken > > Frantz, Sue wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> You can watch HM's brain being thin-sliced, happening live: >> http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php >> > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Help with hysteria From: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:32:22 -0800 (PST) X-Message-Number: 10 One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for her English class on hysteria. I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer her questions she asked me. I could probably google some information--but then so could she. I know wikipedia has a good treatise. Specifically, she'd like to know two things: (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called hysteria. (2) what effect did the "old-fashioned" treatment for hysteria have on those disorders. Well, I know a little bit such as these are now pretty much subsumed by somatoform disorders and I have a sense that the treatments were quite ineffective back in the day when the diagnosis of hysteria was quite in vogue, such as complete sensory deprivation, isolation, a slap in the face, or cold water in the face, probaby just make the person more hysterical. Then along came psychoanalysis. Not sure how much that helped other than for factors common to most therapeutic interventions that are at least "kindly". So any specific guidance to sources would be appreciated. Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Help with hysteria From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:55:44 -0500 X-Message-Number: 11 On 3 Dec 2009 at 15:32, [email protected] wrote: > One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for her > English class on hysteria. > > I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer her > questions she asked me. I could > probably google some information--but then so could she. I know wikipedia has > a good treatise. > > Specifically, she'd like to know two things: > (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called hysteria. I have a vague memory of reading something on the topic which impressed me. After a bit of searching, it seems to me it might be Elaine Showalter's book "Hystories: hysterical epidemics and modern culture" (1997). Here's what an Amazon review (Library Journal) says about it: The ends of centuries have historically given rise to increased incidents of hysterical epidemics. Literary critic and medical historian Showalter has written a challenging and insightful history of hysteria that brings us up to the Nineties. After defining hysteria, she examines the subject from three perspectives: historically, including the work of Charcot and Freud; culturally, through literature, theater, and film; and, finally, in what is likely to be the book's most controversial area, in terms of epidemics. In this last section, the author hypothesizes that many of today's syndromes, including chronic fatigue, Gulf War, recovered memory, and multiple personality, along with increased reports of satanic ritual abuse and alien abduction, should be correctly categorized as hysterias. Showalter's main point, however, is not the denial of these phenomena but rather "how much power emotions have over the body." A thought-provoking work for informed readers.-- Kathleen L. Atwood, Pomfret Sch. Lib., Ct. It sounds like a good starting point for your student. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: H.M. online From: Stuart McKelvie <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:09:15 -0500 X-Message-Number: 12 Dear Tipsters, Could someone explain to me how H.M.¨€™s brain is being analyzed? I see each slice occurring and then someone sweeps it away. But at what stage is the brain being analyzed? Sorry to be so na¨¯ve! Sincerely, Stuart _____________________________________________________ "Floreat Labore" [cid:[email protected]] "Recti cultus pectora roborant" Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Qu¨¨bec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected]) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy<blocked::http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy> Floreat Labore" [cid:[email protected]] [cid:[email protected]]_______________________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 2, 2009 7:45 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Guitar Hero in stats course. Those of you who teach Statistics and Research Methods may be interested in this short piece. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2579 Miguel --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: Help with hysteria From: "Lilienfeld, Scott O" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:13:46 -0500 X-Message-Number: 13 Hi Annette - Q1 is complicated, and doesn't have a clear-cut answer, largely because hysteria was such a remarkably broad category. But by and large, though, what was then called "hysteria" probably largely subsumes what are now somatoform disorders (especially somatization disorder and conversion disorder) and dissociative disorders (e.g., dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, once called multiple personality disorder) - which were split into separate categories in 1980 in DSM-III (a decision that is still debated). For a discussion, see Hyler and Spitzer (1978): http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/12/1500 Answer to Q2 is indeterminate, but the best informed guess is probably "None." ....Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Help with hysteria One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for her English class on hysteria. I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer her questions she asked me. I could probably google some information--but then so could she. I know wikipedia has a good treatise. Specifically, she'd like to know two things: (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called hysteria. (2) what effect did the "old-fashioned" treatment for hysteria have on those disorders. Well, I know a little bit such as these are now pretty much subsumed by somatoform disorders and I have a sense that the treatments were quite ineffective back in the day when the diagnosis of hysteria was quite in vogue, such as complete sensory deprivation, isolation, a slap in the face, or cold water in the face, probaby just make the person more hysterical. Then along came psychoanalysis. Not sure how much that helped other than for factors common to most therapeutic interventions that are at least "kindly". So any specific guidance to sources would be appreciated. Thanks Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: H.M. online From: Claudia Stanny <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:16:39 -0600 X-Message-Number: 14 I can't offer any explanation, but if someone else can, would you please explain how they unfold those slices without tearing them up? The visible brain sections on the block are beautiful. I believe they are making a digital image of each one as the slices are made. I do hope some of these get posted eventually! I've been fascinated by this all morning! Claudia On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Stuart McKelvie <[email protected]>wrote: > > Dear Tipsters, > > > > Could someone explain to me how H.M.’s brain is being analyzed? I see each > slice occurring and then someone sweeps it away. > > > > But at what stage is the brain being analyzed? > > > > Sorry to be so na¨ve! > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Stuart > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: H.M. online From: "DeVolder Carol L" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:14:58 -0600 X-Message-Number: 15 It isn't being analyzed at this point--that will come later. The intent, from what I've read, is to create whole slices and also to create a map showing exactly the locations that were damaged. So the slices are being swept away but they are being (or will be) mounted out of camera range. Here's a NY Times article about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/health/research/03brain.html Carol Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University 518 West Locust Street Davenport, Iowa 52803 Phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm The contents of this message are confidential and may not be shared with anyone without permission of the sender. -----Original Message----- From: Stuart McKelvie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thu 12/3/2009 3:09 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] H.M. online Dear Tipsters, Could someone explain to me how H.M.'s brain is being analyzed? I see each slice occurring and then someone sweeps it away. But at what stage is the brain being analyzed? Sorry to be so na¨ve! Sincerely, Stuart _____________________________________________________ "Floreat Labore" [cid:[email protected]] "Recti cultus pectora roborant" Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Qu¨bec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected]) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy<blocked::http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy> Floreat Labore" [cid:[email protected]] [cid:[email protected]]_______________________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 2, 2009 7:45 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Guitar Hero in stats course. Those of you who teach Statistics and Research Methods may be interested in this short piece. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2579 Miguel --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Help with hysteria From: Paul Brandon <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:34:42 -0600 X-Message-Number: 16 Q1: Beware of simply substituting labels; what were thought to be natural fracture points between classes of phenomena fifty years ago are not so regarded now. Q2: Or possibly 'iatrogenic' (a condition created or made worse by a treatment). There is always a third possibility beyond 'made better' and 'no effect'. On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: > Hi Annette - Q1 is complicated, and doesn't have a clear-cut > answer, largely because hysteria was such a remarkably broad > category. But by and large, though, what was then called > "hysteria" probably largely subsumes what are now somatoform > disorders (especially somatization disorder and conversion > disorder) and dissociative disorders (e.g., dissociative amnesia, > dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, once called > multiple personality disorder) - which were split into separate > categories in 1980 in DSM-III (a decision that is still debated). > For a discussion, see Hyler and Spitzer (1978): > > http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/12/1500 > > > Answer to Q2 is indeterminate, but the best informed guess is > probably "None." > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:32 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] Help with hysteria > > One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for > her English class on hysteria. > > I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer > her questions she asked me. I could probably google some > information--but then so could she. I know wikipedia has a good > treatise. > > Specifically, she'd like to know two things: > (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called > hysteria. > > (2) what effect did the "old-fashioned" treatment for hysteria have > on those disorders. > > Well, I know a little bit such as these are now pretty much > subsumed by somatoform disorders and I have a sense that the > treatments were quite ineffective back in the day when the > diagnosis of hysteria was quite in vogue, such as complete sensory > deprivation, isolation, a slap in the face, or cold water in the > face, probaby just make the person more hysterical. Then along came > psychoanalysis. Not sure how much that helped other than for > factors common to most therapeutic interventions that are at least > "kindly". > > So any specific guidance to sources would be appreciated. Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: H.M. online From: "Frantz, Sue" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:36:56 -0800 X-Message-Number: 17 You can get a little more information about what they're doing and why here: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hmblog/?cat=17 Note particularly in the "Not-So-White-Matter" post the use of gelatin (although it doesn't penetrate the tissue). Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 [email protected] Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director Project Syllabus APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology APA's p...@cc Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Help with hysteria From: Beth Benoit <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:37:15 -0500 X-Message-Number: 18 Again, because hysteria was such a broad category, I always assumed that what we'd now call anxiety disorders must have played a significant role in some of the cases. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Paul Brandon <[email protected]> wrote: > Q1: Beware of simply substituting labels; what were thought to be > natural fracture points between classes of phenomena fifty years ago are not > so regarded now. > > Q2: Or possibly 'iatrogenic' (a condition created or made worse by a > treatment). There is always a third possibility beyond 'made better' and > 'no effect'. > > On Dec 3, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: > > Hi Annette - Q1 is complicated, and doesn't have a clear-cut answer, >> largely because hysteria was such a remarkably broad category. But by and >> large, though, what was then called "hysteria" probably largely subsumes >> what are now somatoform disorders (especially somatization disorder and >> conversion disorder) and dissociative disorders (e.g., dissociative amnesia, >> dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, once called multiple >> personality disorder) - which were split into separate categories in 1980 in >> DSM-III (a decision that is still debated). For a discussion, see Hyler and >> Spitzer (1978): >> >> http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/135/12/1500 >> >> >> Answer to Q2 is indeterminate, but the best informed guess is probably >> "None." >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:32 PM >> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) >> Subject: [tips] Help with hysteria >> >> One of the students in my intro psych course is writing a paper for her >> English class on hysteria. >> >> I am not a clinician and I have a very limited ability to answer her >> questions she asked me. I could probably google some information--but then >> so could she. I know wikipedia has a good treatise. >> >> Specifically, she'd like to know two things: >> (1) what do we now label the disorders that used to be called hysteria. >> >> (2) what effect did the "old-fashioned" treatment for hysteria have on >> those disorders. >> >> Well, I know a little bit such as these are now pretty much subsumed by >> somatoform disorders and I have a sense that the treatments were quite >> ineffective back in the day when the diagnosis of hysteria was quite in >> vogue, such as complete sensory deprivation, isolation, a slap in the face, >> or cold water in the face, probaby just make the person more hysterical. >> Then along came psychoanalysis. Not sure how much that helped other than for >> factors common to most therapeutic interventions that are at least "kindly". >> >> So any specific guidance to sources would be appreciated. >> > > Paul Brandon > Emeritus Professor of Psychology > Minnesota State University, Mankato > [email protected] > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: H.M. online From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:54:25 -0500 X-Message-Number: 19 On 3 Dec 2009 at 16:16, Claudia Stanny wrote: > I can't offer any explanation, but if someone else can, would you please > explain how they unfold > those slices without tearing them up? I did a lot of this in my day with rat brains. The technique I used was to collect each slice in sequence in an ice-cube tray filled with a formalin solution. One at a time, each section was lifted with a brush out of the tray cubicle into a petri dish filled with a weak alcohol solution. It unfolded nicely with a poke or two from the brush, and I then slid a glass cover slip under it to lift it up and transfer it, still in fluid, to a glass slide. A bit more poking would usually be sufficient to release any folded corners. The slide was pre-treated with a gelatin solution which, when the fluid on the slide dried, would glue the brain section to the slide. The slides were then soaked in solutions of increasing concentrations of alcohol to dehydrate them, defatted with a xylene solution, and stained with biological dyes to reveal neurons and fiber pathways. This was called "doing histology", and was a skill that took a bit of practice to get it down. As the brains had been previously toughened in formalin, tearing was rarely a problem. Of course, human brain slices are considerably larger, and may take more skill to manipulate. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: H.M. online From: Ken Steele <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:01:08 -0500 X-Message-Number: 20 Claudia Stanny wrote: > > > I can't offer any explanation, but if someone else can, would you please > explain how they unfold those slices without tearing them up? > I don't know exactly what they are doing but when I did rat brains then the slices are being placed into some liquid medium in a petri dish. A glass plate is immersed in the medium and the camel-hair brushes are used to float/unfold/coach the slices onto the glass slide. You need to develop a light and delicate touch otherwise you will tear the the slices. Ken --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: RE: H.M. online From: Stuart McKelvie <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:11:28 -0500 X-Message-Number: 21 Dear Tipsters, I thank Knowledgeable Tipsters for their replies. I particularly appreciate the detail supplied by this who have done this. It gives me a new appreciation for what is happening here. Sincerely, Stuart _____________________________________________________ "Floreat Labore" "Recti cultus pectora roborant" Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Qu¨bec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: [email protected] (or [email protected]) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore" _______________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 3, 2009 5:01 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] H.M. online Claudia Stanny wrote: > > > I can't offer any explanation, but if someone else can, would you please > explain how they unfold those slices without tearing them up? > I don't know exactly what they are doing but when I did rat brains then the slices are being placed into some liquid medium in a petri dish. A glass plate is immersed in the medium and the camel-hair brushes are used to float/unfold/coach the slices onto the glass slide. You need to develop a light and delicate touch otherwise you will tear the the slices. Ken --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Kinsey From: "Christine L. Grela" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:10:09 -0600 X-Message-Number: 22 In response to the critique of Kinsey: I teach Human Sexuality, and although I certainly teach about the Kinsey reports from a historical standpoint, I do spend considerable time discussing both the strengths and weaknesses of his research. His interviewing technique was excellent; his sampling was disastrous. I would hope (and rather firmly believe) that anyone in this field would use the data from Laumann et al.'s work in discussing population statistics for any sexual acts (and possibly comparing that to Kinsey to see how sampling can make a HUGE difference). And even Laumann's study has some serious flaws since sometimes the participants were interviewed in the presence of other family members/spouses/etc. As others have mentioned, although the Kinsey Institute bears Kinsey's name, I don't think their research bears much resemblance - other than still being about sexuality related issues. Christine Grela Instructor of Psychology McHenry County College Office: C-124; Phone: 815-479-7725 [email protected] --- END OF DIGEST --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
