Psychology

Yale School of Medicine
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Psychology

Yale Faculty and distinguished guests speak on psychology research and latest studies happening at Yale.

Episodes

  1. 13/01/2009

    Racism's Shades of Gray

    Yale's John Dovidio finds that people tolerate racism more than they say they will.

    12 min

  2. 18/11/2008

    Food on the Brain

    Ralph DiLeone discusses how our brains can make losing weight very difficult.

    6 min

  3. 24/10/2008

    Hot Coffee, Warm heart

    John A Bargh discusses research into origins of interpersonal warmth from a Yale study in which Yale researchers find touching a warm beverage leads to warm feelings towards others.

    8 min

  4. 06/06/2008

    Lack of Sleep Leads to Health Problems Like Obesity

    We spend fewer hours sleeping than our ancestors. Drs. Tamas Horvath and Xiao-Bing Gao, professors in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences explore health problems linked to lack of sleep, such as obesity.

    16 min

  5. 03/06/2008

    Building Self Control to Fight Addiction

    Dr. Roy Baumeister discusses self-control, the factors that deplete it, and the ways we can increase it.

    14 min

  6. 03/06/2008

    Teen Brains Wired to Take Risks

    Teenagers are hard wired to experiment and seek out excitement. Dr. Linda Mayes discusses the state of the science on adolescent brain development and ways that adults can encourage good decision making.

    1 sec

  7. 03/04/2008

    New Strategies for the Hardest Cases of Depression

    Gerard Sanacora, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale Depression Program, studies how the neurotransmitter systems in the brain contribute to depression and other mood disorders.

    12 min

  8. 04/03/2008

    Stress and Addiction: Breaking the Cycle

    Rajita Sinha, professor of psychiatry and director of the Yale School of Medicine consortium on stress and addiction, explains how stress puts people at risk for addiction.

    13 min

  9. 29/02/2008

    Fast Tracking Lab Discoveries to Help Alcoholics

    John Krystal, M.D., the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, explains current research on alcohol dependence. Dr. Krystal leads a major effort at Yale to help turn research findings about alcoholism into treatment for patients.

    14 min

  10. 14/02/2008

    Nicotine and the Teenage Brain

    Leslie Jacobsen, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry, explains how exposure to nicotine in the womb, or in the teen years, is associated with neurological changes—none of them for the better.

    11 min

  11. 15/11/2007

    Monkey Economics: Hard-Wired Consuming Behavior

    Laurie Santos, associate professor of psychology, talks about her research testing fundamental economic principles in laboratory capuchin monkeys.

    11 min

  12. 24/10/2007

    Why Some Soldiers Thrive Under Extreme Stress

    Andy Morgan, M.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry, talks about his research with the military examining why some soldiers thrive under extremely adverse circumstances.

    2 sec
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    Yale Faculty and distinguished guests speak on psychology research and latest studies happening at Yale.

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      Yale School of Medicine
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