Matthew J. Sharps Every generation has dealt with mental illness. Every generation has done so from an essentially local perspective, based in local concepts of the best way to understand the natural world from which mental illness has sprung. Historically, every generation has been fairly certain that its perspective on mental illness was correct. The…
Matthew J. Sharps Something about the Winter Solstice, on or about December 21 every year, seems to give people the willies. It’s hard to say why. If you live on a planet, you’re going to get solstices. You can’t help it. Yet things happen around that time of year anyway. Psychological things, of considerable interest….
Matthew J. Sharps Percival Lowell was a great astronomer of the last century, whose personal wealth allowed him to build a splendid observatory, the discoveries of which have been important to the present day. Yet despite all of his scientific success, Lowell is mainly remembered today for his one big failure: his descriptions of the…
Cognitive Asynchrony Theory This theoretical perspective provides a framework for understanding the effects on memory and higher cognition of the speed loss inherent in eugeric (normal) aging. The theory posits that eugeric neurological loss is asymmetric among the brain circuits supporting memory and decision-making, resulting in the greater difficulties observed in more complex imaging tasks…