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Volume 35, No. 4 April 2004

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Cover stories

An evolutionary explanation for anorexia?



New leadership for APA's Science Diretorate

Behavioral genetics

Disciplines team to study race relations

Learning how to learn

Stimulating the vagus nerve: memories are made of this



In this month's issue:

Featured convention speakers
Presidential-track sessions at APA's Annual Convention in Hawaii will tackle day care research, counseling and substance abuse services for prostitutes, and post-apartheid South Africa.

Training psychologists for PREMIER careers
Duke University's new training program for minority researchers uses extra funds and a one-on-one focus to fuel innovative research.

Improving teacher quality
APA highlights psychology's contributions to education at a teacher education conference.



Toward peace on the playground
A psychologist-run program to curb bullying gets a $20,000 boost from the American Psychological Foundation.

Apply now for the 2004 Violence Prevention and Intervention Grant

Spotlight on... Dr. and Mrs. James Campbell Quick

Apply now for the Hécaen and Meier scholarships

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE:
Psychology advocates prepare for funding tug-of-war
While 2004 congressional spending fell short of psychology's expectations, 2005 funding for key federal programs could drop even lower. APA's policy staff are poised to counter that possibility.

ETHICS ROUNDS:
APA's new Ethics Code from a practitioner's perspective
Practitioners were influential in the creation of the code.

A CLOSER LOOK:
Rediscover psychology's pioneers

Departments

APF news
Association news
Classified Ads
A closer look
Division spotlight
Ethics rounds
In the public interest
Judicial notebook
Letters
People
President's column
Public Policy update
Running commentary
Science directions
Staff

In brief

Cognitive tests may help determine driving capability

IQ-adjusted testing better detects Alzheimer's signs

CBT may stabilize over-activity in higher-order brain areas

Conference Web site taps new technology

General cognition also makes the difference on the job, study finds

APA president talks heart health at the White House

APA will co-sponsor conference on children and the law

Interplay of emotion and calculation influences people's value estimates

Educating Congress about psychologists' education

APA Council endorses fair-testing code, forms new working group, among other actions


 

 


 
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