More than one billion people all over the world enjoy cigarette smoking. It has been a deliberate attempt to reduce the smoking population by various governments and non governmental organization as it was reported that some of the constituents of cigarette are harmful to human bodies.

As the number of people have smoking habits is always on rise, huge money was spent by manufacturers in advertising their products. Many cigarette smoking companies started advertisement on...

Anxiety can be regarded as one of the main causes of depression, because it can make it difficult for a person to be comfortable with themselves, around people or even outside of their home. There appear to be many different causes of anxiety, which can sometimes make it difficult for people to quickly figure out the exact cause of their anxiety. It is sometimes caused by past trauma, by environmental factors or even by a person’s brain chemistry. Research is still being done, but...

Psychology is known to be the study of human behavior to various situations and the emotions that occur as a result of those situations. The art of trying to understand people is not a new study. There are many famous people who have tried to find out why people react the way they do. Of these many psychologists, the most famous psychologist has to be Freud.

This gentleman was known to be very interested in why people behaved the way they did in various circumstances. The...

What is Clinical Psychology?

Clinical Psychology combines theory, science and practice. As a clinical psychologist, you would deal with the cause, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of those with psychological problems. These problems can very greatly in severity and seriousness, from disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and substance abuse to problems related to stress, career planning and family.

If you don’t like school – it may be time to...

Journal of Community Guidance & Research, November 2007, Vol. 24, No. 3, p: 253-261.
INTRODUCTION

Electronic culture is of universal prevalence. The impact and ambience of electronic technology is invariably and inevitably felt by everyone throughout the world. The indisputable reality today is that individuals and organizations inextricably exist in an E-world. Today, much of human needs are gratified by the use of electronic goods and services. This fact is...

Long time before I dared to enter my first philosophy class, I frequently was involved in friendly, but at the same time passionate discussions with friends and colleagues, holding fast to my strong belief that altruism merely does not exist. All actions we think to be altruistic, I argued, come from some self-interest. Now, of course, I identify this belief as psychological egoism.
Maybe, it could be argued, that my persistent denying of altruism and defending egoism was the...

Brain plasticity(also known as cortical plasticity or neuroplasticity) is the ability of the brain to reorganize itself – forming new brain cells and new information processing connections between those cells, and new functions for those cells.

Neuroplasticity is known to occur in the brain in the following situations:

• During infancy and childhood, and into young adulthood: when the immature brain organizes itself.
• Through adulthood: whenever we...

Did Michael Jackson die from a prescription drug overdose?  As I write this it is barely 12 hours since the death of the “King of Pop” and rumors are circulating that there is a strong possibility an overdose of Demerol, a prescription pain killer similar to morphine might have triggered or caused his cardiac arrest.  While tragic, if true then Michael Jackson is just another in a long line of meaningless deaths at the hands of prescription medications…an...

by Philip Yaffe

It is a widely accepted adage that, "The older you get, the faster time seems to go." But why should aging have this effect? After all, there is the parallel adage that, "Time flies when you are having fun." But as we age, time flies whether we are having fun or not.

So what's going on?

I have recently been trying to understand the phenomenon, because for the past several years many of my days have been extremely long, yet the years...