Hannah Jongsma interviewed Julia Gottwald. Julia also writes for the Psychiatry News Team, and has just been awarded the Public Communications Prize by the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP). Congratulations Julia! It’s been quite a month for you, hasn’t it? Yes! I was in Seoul (South-Korea) when I found out I had won the Prize. I […]
Archives for 2016
Carrots and sticks fail to change behavior in cocaine addiction.
Cocaine abuse can have severe, life-threatening effects on those with serious addictions. On top of the severe impact that it can have on individuals who become addicted, cocaine addiction also has significant social and economic repercussions and is recognised as a major public health issue. The majority of approaches to the treatment of cocaine addictions […]
Is sugar addictive? Probably not, say Cambridge neuroscientists.
In recent years, many articles in both scientific journals and the popular press have promoted the idea that people can become addicted to sugar in the same way that they can become addicted to drugs. This idea has already gained tremendous traction in society, as evidenced by an internet search on the topic. Sceptical of […]
Reality Monitoring in Autism Spectrum Conditions.
Have you ever recalled a story about yourself, only to realise that you were actually recounting something that happened to someone else? If so, this would be due to a failure in reality monitoring – the ability to discriminate between memories for actual events and memories for imagined events. A collaborative project between the departments of […]