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SCIENCE WATCH
The pregnant brain
Pregnant women and animals experience slight decreases in learning and memory changes that appear to pave the way for cognitive benefits in motherhood and may even advantage mothers as they age.
In this month's issue:
Victory for Medicare recipients
Advocacy efforts help Congress pass Medicare legislation that will improve access to mental health care.
Better studying through chemistry?
Seeking a cognitive boost, students are increasingly abusing stimulants. And the problem is likely to get worse.
Clean cuts
In these tough economic times, companies increasingly rely on psychologists' expertise in the delicate art of downsizing.
Changing course in a storm
Two American psychologists caught in the cyclone in Myanmar rush to help relief workers cope with the disaster's aftermath.
Charting the future of undergraduate psychology
Educators at the Puget Sound Conference consider steps to introduce the discipline to a new—and much different—generation of students.
Psychologists in the halls of Congress
APA's 2007–08 Congressional Fellows cover diverse issues, but have common goals.
Candidates share their views
Those vying for the APA presidency answer two more questions.
Fresh perspectives for Psychological Bulletin
Incoming editor Stephen Hinshaw will encourage early career psychologists to write review papers.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
Policy-makers focus on the needs of wounded warriors
Psychologists share innovative efforts to address the mental health needs of soldiers, veterans and their families.
TIME CAPSULE
The IQ Zoo
Early psychologists used animals to educate and entertain.
QUESTIONNAIRE
Secrets behind the service
Michelle Keeney is the first woman, first civilian and first psychologist to direct the National Threat Assessment Center.
PRACTICE PROFILE
A rich hospital practice
Oklahoma psychologist Stewart R. Beasley Jr. has worked from the inside to gain hospital privileges for himself and the profession—a move that spells better care for patients.
ETHICS ROUNDS
Important lessons for APA on island ethics: Notes from Hawaii
A series of dialectical tensions illustrate some of the ethical challenges of practicing psychology in an island state.
HOW TO
Get your message to the masses
Translate your research or clinical insight into popular-press books with these tips.
American Psychogical Foundation
DEPARTMENTS
• Letters
• President's column
• From the CEO
• On the Record
• In Brief
• On Your Behalf
• Judicial notebook
• Random Sample
• Science Directions
• In the Public Interest
• APA News
• Division spotlight
• Personalities
• Staff
UPFRONT
• Reverse the equation to save gas
• Science salaries: low for BA, MS psychology degrees
• Girls equal to boys in math performance
• A new test for early-stage dementia
• TV psychologists may deter seeking help
Parity is close to reality
A federal law that would expand mental health coverage is nearly final.
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