• 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…

  • Criminology - Psychology

    Violent Women

    07/08/2021 - By 

    Extremism and radicalization are the first steps to propagation of violence. When one thinks of a radicalized terrorist or active shooter, one stereotypically thinks of men, who seem to be more often perpetrators of mass violence. So when we read about female criminals, we are often surprised. Psychologists have been fascinated by the subject of violent women and what drives them. Is it rebellion? Is it the usual brainwashing that violence is the only way towards liberation? Is it feminism? I spoke to Dr. Maria Alvanou, who is a criminologist at the Neopolis University Pafos, about why and how women…