1Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 2Departments of Occupational Therapy, Psychology, and Psychiatry, Boston University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 3Dartmouth Psychiatric Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA 4Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA 5Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, S...

INTRODUCTION Teaching Psychology in medical curriculum has been the subject of numerous dissertations that focus on the relevance of this knowledge for doctors, at a general level. METHODS A non-systematic review of the relevant literature, particularly from the last decade, as well as national and international recommendations addressing the need for integration of behavioural and social sci...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a citation analysis to explore the impact of articles published in Health Psychology and determine whether the journal is fulfilling its stated mission. DESIGN Six years of articles (N = 408) representing three editorial tenures from 1993-2003 were selected for analysis. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Articles were coded for several dimensions enabling examination of the relat...

introduction: for some time now the field of medical education has been criticized by many of its stakeholders. countless debates have been presented in the literature regarding the quality of medical education research, adequacy of methodological rigor, and other concerns. methods: at present, the views expressed have largely come from physicians and individuals with less familiarity with educ...

Aleksandra Vuckovic*, Jaime A. Pineda, Kristen LaMarca, Disha Gupta and Christoph Guger 1 School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA 3 Clinical Psychology, California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, CA, USA 4 Burke Rehabilitation Center, Burke-Cornell Medical Research Institute...

Sleep enhances category learning Ina Djonlagic, Andrew Rosenfeld, Daphna Shohamy, Catherine Myers, Mark Gluck, and Robert Stickgold Center for Sleep and Cognition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA; Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; Psychology Department, Columbia University, N...

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Jolanta Kucharska-Mazur1, Anna Grzywacz1, Justyna PełkaWysiecka1, Agnieszka samochowiec1,2, Hans Rommelspacher3, Jerzy samochowiec1: 1 Department of Psychiatry, Pomeranian Medical University, 26 Broniewskiego Str., 71-460 Szczecin, Poland. 2 Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychoprophylaxis, Institute of Psychology, University of Szczecin, 69 Krakowska Str., 71-004 Szczecin, Poland. 3 Dep...

This chapter emphasizes the importance of psychology in the context of health and social care. For many years, psychology and the other social sciences were viewed by the medical profession as ‘soft sciences’, interesting but unimportant. With the advent of research into the links between physical and mental states in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries it is now possible to dem...

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