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UPDATE: Looks like the move has been successful. E-mail seems to be back, and I’ve heard from some folks on Twitter that the site is displaying properly. How about that? We’ve [...]
Over at the Attachment Parenting blog, I found an article about getting babies to sleep that reminded me of my experience. We talked about sleep waaaaay back in Episodes 2 & 3 of The Family Anatomy Show, but I think it’s worth revisiting. Historically there have been two major schools of thought about getting babies [...]
Researchers Eric Corty and Jenay Guardiani of Penn State Erie conducted a study in which they surveyed highly experienced psychologists, physicians, social workers, marriage/family therapists and nurses to ask them about how long satisfying sexual intercourse lasts. The results indicated a general consensus.¬† Intercourse was considered “Adequate”, from 3-7 minutes; “desirable,” from 7-13 minutes; “too [...]
An article in the online edition of The Guardian suggests that following social networks like Bebo, Facebook, and Twitter may be contributing to short attention spans and a lack of identity. Lady Greenfield, an Oxford professor of synaptic pharmacology, expressed concern that the constant flow of updates that characterize social networking sites might contribute to [...]
This article was taken from a blog by Dr. Gad Saad in Psychology Today and found interesting. Dr. Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist who has published over 40 scientific articles in numerous disciplines including in marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, medicine, economics, and bibliometrics.
The epidemiologist Donald Redelmeier and his coauthor Sheldon Singh published a paper [...]
Dr. Brian and I discussed Summer Vacations back in episode 23 of Family Anatomy. Well, it’s clearly not summer anymore, although the cold weather leads many to consider a vacation during the winter months. People are typically looking for ways to escape the cold and find a place to relax and get away from the [...]
Doctors Brian and Giuseppe talk about recent stories posted on familyanatomy.com, including:
the importance of eye contact
parents’ gestures and children’s vocabulary development
city vs. country life impact on memory and attention
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How do people show their love to one another? Often, it is an act such as going out to dinner or buying a present. This is an important way of showing love as are other non-verbal means such as hugging, kissing and listening attentively, although over time it can come to substitute for words. That [...]
Vocabulary knowledge when kids enter school predicts later academic performance. A study published in the current issue of Science investigated the link between parental gestures and the development of children’s vocabulary. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that parents who used more gestures when communicating had kids with a broader “gesture vocabulary” at 14 [...]
Recently it came to my attention that we have not re-explored the topic of family therapy for a while. I felt that it would be important to remind our listeners as well as people visiting our website what family therapy is about and what it means to seek help in this area. It is important [...]
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