• Neuroscience and Cognition - Psychology

    Battling Addiction

    14/10/2023 - By 

    Addiction is a neurological disease that affects millions. How can we help them? From the desk of Dr. Teresa Franklin I earned my PhD in 1999 from Hahnemann University in Phila, PA, USA. Since then, I have worked mainly at the Center for the Studies of Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania, Phila, PA. USA. My research focus is addiction – specifically, the study of conditioned drug responses – otherwise known as drug cue-induced craving, which we can study now in real time with magnetic resonance imaging – MRI. Nowadays, most of us have had an…

  • Neuroscience and Cognition - Social science

    Unravelling Body image issues

    02/03/2022 - By 

    Negative body image. We have all been there. In this day of Instagram perfection, body dysmorphia has become an epidemic, as we struggle with the idea that our health and wealth and happiness is 100% dependent on what we look like. This is of course not a new phenomenon – each society has had its own idea of what is considered beautiful, and those who do not fit this norm internalize the idea that they are not enough. What are the psychological processes behind this? How does one develop a negative body image, that could then morph into something more…

  • Neuroscience and Cognition

    Cat Cognition

    13/10/2020 - By 

    But…does my cat love me?? They say the world is divided into two sorts of people, the cat lovers and the dog lovers, never the two shall meet. Cat owners swear by their pets – apparently the most watched content on the internet is that of cats, while others render cats unloving, unreachable, aloof, sometimes even combative. But what is really behind the behavior of a cat? Why do cats do the things they do? Do they really love their owners, or are the owners the real pets? Dr. Mikel Delgado has the dream job as a cat behaviorist, studying…