The Counseling Training Clinic in the Psychology Department of Western Washington University currently has openings for families and couples who are interested in counseling. This service is provided free of charge.
Family and couples counseling appointments are available Tuesday evenings from 4 to 6. Graduate students supervised by faculty members will provide counseling for a wide range of family and couples issues.
Faculty from WWU’s Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Biology and Psychology departments will gather for a monthly neighborhood round-table discussion, “Neuroscience on Tap: Bring Your Own Brain (BYOB),” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, March 1, at Bob’s Burgers & Brew, 202 E. Holly St. in downtown Bellingham.
“Stroke: Insights into How Brain Cells Respond to an Attack from Within” is this month’s topic, which will be hosted by Jose Serrano-Moreno, an assistant professor in Western’s Biology Department.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) presented an invited address titled "Bear Spends Time in Our Dreams Now: Magical Thinking, Ritual, and Spiritual Considerations in Counseling Theory and Practice" at the 27th Annual Teachers College - Columbia University Winter Roundtable on Cultural Psychology and Education, in February in New York City.
George Ojemann, M.D., a professor emeritus with the Department of Neurological Surgery at the University of Washington School of Medicine, will be on the Western Washington University campus Tuesday, Feb. 16, to give a lecture titled "Relationship Between Human Cortical Physiology & fMRI During Language & Memory."
Ojemann's research focuses on the neurobiology of human cognition, particularly cortical organization for language and memory, which he investigates in the context of awake neurosurgery under local anesthesia.
George Cvetkovich (Psychology, emeritus) and Kazuya Nakayachi, from Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, had their article “Public trust in government concerning tobacco control in Japan” published in the January 2010 issue of "Risk Analysis" (Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 143-152).
There I was, crossing Manhattan’s East 61st Street, casually making my way towards the Pierre Hotel, when a New York taxi cab stopped slap bang in front of me. And the driver wasn’t happy.
As he appeared to be Eastern European I couldn’t make out exactly what he was saying, although I gathered quite quickly that he was somewhat less than impressed with my ability to walk across the street while furiously scrolling through a page on my handheld.
Yup, I’d been BlackBerried.
Faculty from WWU’s Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Biology and Psychology departments will gather for a monthly neighborhood round-table discussion, “Neuroscience on Tap: Bring Your Own Brain (BYOB),” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, at Bob’s Burgers & Brew, 202 E. Holly St. in downtown Bellingham.
“Monkey See Monkey Do! The Mirror Neuron Revolution” is this month’s topic, which will be hosted by Kelly Jantzen, an assistant professor in Western’s Psychology Department.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, WCE) recently was selected to serve as a distinguished editorial panelist for behavioral and social science research with the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health. Trimble has served on National Institutes of Health scientific research panels for the past 32 years, representing some 14 different centers and offices in NIH.
Though it doesn't reach the same level of self-absorbed and dangerous stupidity as texting while driving, texting while walking presents its own set of serio-comic effects.
According to an Ohio State University study recently reported in The New York Times, slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell, or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006.
Faculty members from Western Washington University's Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Biology and Psychology departments gather for monthly neighborhood round-table discussions, Neuroscience on Tap: Bring Your Own Brain (BYOB), at Bob's Burgers & Brew in downtown Bellingham.
At each meeting, a faculty member leads the discussion of a specific topic, from mental illness to food addiction to brain injury.
Here, Jackie Rose, an assistant professor in Westerns Psychology Department, presents "Thanks for the Memories: Memory Processes Across the Lifespan."
An ongoing exploration of the brain will focus on recently discovered neurons that lay the foundation for shared experiences.
"Monkey See Monkey Do! The Mirror Neuron Revolution" is the next in a series of talks organized by Western Washington University about the brain and neuroscience.
It runs 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, at Bob's Burgers & Brew, 202 E. Holly St.
A Canadian film crew shooting for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was on campus Friday, Jan. 22, to film Western Washington University professor Ira Hyman and to re-stage (with WWU's Joe Myers on unicycle) Hyman's research on cell phone use for a documentary.
Allow me to take you back to high school, to driver’s education, for a pop quiz.
You are driving on the freeway with one car in the lane to your left and one car in the lane to your right. Both drivers are having a cell phone conversation. The driver on your left, however, is holding a phone to his ear. The driver on your right is using a hands-free device.
Knowing that the use of cell phones while driving has been shown to make drivers less attentive and less safe – akin to the effects of drunken driving – which of these drivers should frighten you more?
Texting or talking on a cell phone is so distracting that someone doing either likely won’t notice a unicycling clown passing in front of them, a university professor said.
Ira Hyman, a professor of psychology at Western Washington University, was one of a series of people urging the Legislature to make sending a text message or talking on a cell phone while driving a primary offense which can get a driver a ticket all by itself. Right now in Washington, it’s a secondary offense, meaning driver only gets a ticket if he or she has broken some other traffic law.
Joseph E. Trimble (Psychology, Woodring College of Education) had his article "The Virtues of Cultural Resonance, Competence, and Relational Collaboration with Native American Indian Communities: A Synthesis of the Counseling and Psychotherapy Literature" published recently in the journal "The Counseling Psychologist," Vol. 38, No. 2.
On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive tsunami struck 12 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. In minutes, more than 230,000 people lost their lives and 2.3 million people became homeless. The tsunami created a humanitarian crisis that affected every aspect of life in coastal communities.
The just-passed fifth anniversary of the fourth deadliest disaster in history is a time for reflection.
Western Washington University will continue its monthly "Neuroscience on Tap" series with a talk about memory Monday, Jan. 4.
Faculty from Western's behavioral neuroscience program and psychology and biology departments will get together with the public from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Bob's Burgers & Brew downtown. The topic of the discussion is "Thanks for the Memories: Memory Processes Across the Lifespan," and it will be led by psychology assistant professor Jackie Rose.
Jackie Rose, an assistant professor of psychology at Western Washington University, will speak on memory processes across the lifespan at the monthly Neuroscience on Tap event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. n Tuesday, Jan. 4.
Faculty from WWU’s Behavioral Neuroscience Program and Biology and Psychology departments gather monthly for the neighborhood round-table discussions, which are held at Bob’s Burgers & Brew, 202 E. Holly St. in downtown Bellingham.
Beginning Jan. 11, graduate students in Western Washington University’s Psychology Department will provide counseling, under faculty supervision, for families and individuals. Both of these services are free:
Jon Bale explains that the clear liquid he’s carefully dripping into a glass test tube in the laboratory contains neurotransmitters, the chemicals that allow brain cells to communicate with each other.
Working on a research project studying brain neurochemistry with Associate Professor of Psychology Janet Finlay, Bale is getting important research experience for a student who aspires to become a neurologist.
Western Washington University's psychology department will offer free counseling through its Counseling Training Clinic during winter quarter.
Graduate students under faculty supervision will see families and individuals starting Jan. 11.
Janet Finlay, director of the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Western Washington University, will take audience questions on mental health and genetics at the monthly Neuroscience on Tap gathering at Bob's Burgers & Brew in downtown Bellingham.
Finlay, an associate professor of psychology at WWU, says these regular gatherings are a great way for community members to get answers to common problems from faculty members. In addition to the host, a number of faculty members typically attend these informal meetings, she says.
Beginning Jan. 11, graduate students in Western Washington University’s Psychology Department will provide counseling, under faculty supervision, for families and individuals. Both of these services are free:
