Health and Psychology

Well it's a new semester and I'm back at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in downtown Los Angeles teaching three courses this term.  I'd like to get my students involved in blogging and social networking as professionals.  I think very little time is spent academically in teaching stuents to use social media to educate other people and to share budding ideas to other professionals as well as the general public.

But if psychlogists leave the use of social media to others to talk about our profession then we do the profession a disservice.  I've been professionally writing, journaling and blogging snce I was in high school which was when I coincidently started providing formal psychological counseling services.  Back then it was called peer counseling and was under the supervision of the psychology teacher at the high school.  We put out a little school paper and talked about issues that were relevant to the students at the school.

So I'm going to invite students from my class, and any other psychology graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, or psychologists to start commenting on the information I'm posting here.  I'd also love to hear from the general public as well as from other professionals.  These articles are going to be geared to graduate students, psychologists, neuropsychologists, and health and medical professionals to let them know of all the new and exciting developments in the field.  Feel free to comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/sports/other/concussion.swf  This is a link to an animation on the chemical cascade following concussion.