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How Ph.D. Students and Postdocs Can Optimize Their Lives

Why a Career in Basic Science?: A talk I just gave at MIT

Hope for a Grand Explanatory Theory of Cognitive Impairment?

MIT scientists just reported that the Ptchd1 gene may underlie a number of cognitive impairments, autism and schizophrenia but perhaps others. My Psychology Today article today summarizes their findings and lays out a basis for hope that such research will lead to more effective treatments.

The Future of Clinical Psychology

Sure, clinical psychology has made progress in the last century. There's now cognitive-behavioral therapy, SSRIs and such but they're no, pardon the pun, magic pill.

Clinical psychology's progress is dwarfed by other fields' advances. For example, a century ago, a person might be institutionalized for predicting that today, people would carry a device in their pocket that can video-call anyone wirelessly for free (Skype,) watch thousands of techno-marvel movies (NetFlix,) and instantly search much of the world's information (Google.)

Fortunately, recent progress in neuropsychology is laying the foundation for equally dramatic changes in clinical psychology.

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers some of the changes in clinical psychology that neuroscience and molecular biology portend.