APA joins in tsunami relief efforts
APA pledges financial assistance and psychological expertise in response to trauma wrought by the Southeast Asia tsunami.

Psychology gains new CPT testing codes for 2006
The codes are another step toward gaining higher Medicare reimbursement rates for psychological testing and assessment services.

Prescription for success
New Mexico is the first state to implement prescribing regulations for psychologists.

SENSES AND SYMBOLS
• Hues and views
   A cross-cultural study reveals how language shapes color perception.
• Fuzzy math
   A remote tribe that lacks a counting system suggests limitations on inborn representations of number.
• Pitch perfect
   Everyone may be able to learn to name pitches, but the window of time to do it occurs only early in life.

Express yourself!
Psychologists are bringing creative arts therapies into the mainstream.

Mind over media
An APA-supported summit plugged teens into how the media persuades.

Practicing what they teach
Three community college psychology professors take their classrooms out into their communities.

A mission to promote disability rights in Slovakia
Psychologist Daniel Holland aims to improve the lives of people with disabilities in Slovakia by studying ways to bolster the organizations that serve them.

Building a case
APA submitted five amicus briefs last year on issues such as same-sex marriage, race-based admissions and the juvenile death penalty.

PUBLIC POLICY UPDATE
Fiscal restraint reigns on Capitol Hill
Fiscal year 2005 presents a mixed funding picture for many psychology-friendly programs and a bleak future forecast.

Meet APA's new board and committee members

ETHICS ROUNDS:
Record-keeping under the new Ethics Code

APA seeks nominations for 2006 awards
Nominate your colleagues now for next year's Annual Convention.

'The most mentored professor around'
With the $20,000 Alexander Gralnick Award, Courtenay Harding is drawing on the mentoring she got as an undergraduate researcher to help a new generation of psychologists.

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IN BRIEF
• Monkeys fancy symmetrically patterned cards
• Voice encoding plays major part in language-learning
• Study links jealousy with aggression, low self-esteem
• Apply for the Seligman positive psychology award
• Mystery gifts kindle the most happiness
• Increased cognitive control helps prevent false memories
• Lack of social support disturbs working women's sleep
• Apply for a Department of Defense research fellowship
• Leshner joins the National Science Board
• Board of Educational Affairs awards grants to educational workshops
• Plans for homeland security curriculum under way
• People overestimate their future free time
• APA helps shape new IDEA law
• Study reveals alcohol-abuse contributors
• Museum hosts event
• Psychologists tout multiple methodologies in education research
• Positive psychology makes headlines
• Members approve Board of Directors term limits, Council of Representatives apportionment
• APA's 2006 Council of Representatives