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Are Antidepressants Addictive?
Antidepressants are not addictive in the way that we think of or define addiction. This video addresses the following questions: If your symptoms return after you stop an antidepressant does that mean you’re addicted? What is the...
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Do Benzodiazepines Cause Dementia?
Benzodiazepines are a type of medication prescribed to people with anxiety and panic disorders. But do they cause dementia? In this video, I talk about the research on benzodiazepines and dementia, and what it means for people taking...
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Can Antidepressants Stop Working?
It’s estimated that 25% of people develop tolerance to their antidepressant medications. This medication tolerance issue was first noticed in the early 1980’s when we were using Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, called MAOis. These were very...
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Benzodiazepine Dependence and Withdrawal - How To Avoid This
Benzodiazepine or benzos for short, is the class of drug that works at the GABA receptors in your brain to produce a relaxing or sedative effect. We use benzodiazepines to treat short-term anxiety and sleep. Some doctors will use them as...
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Cause and Effect Phrases
Cause and Effect Phrases demonstrates understanding of word relationships by identifying cause and effect phrases in context that help to explain an unknown word or phrase.
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Judgment Noise
What is Judgment Noise? When people consider errors in judgment and decision making, they most likely think of social biases like the stereotyping of minorities or of cognitive biases.
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Integrative Thinking
What is Integrative Thinking? Integrative thinking is the process of integrating intuition, reason, and imagination in a human mind to develop a holistic continuum of strategy, tactics, action, review, and evaluation.
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Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions
What are Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions? Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is a framework for cross-cultural psychology, developed by Geert Hofstede. It shows the effects of a society's culture on the values of its members, and how...
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Frame Dependence
What is Frame Dependence? Frame dependence means that people make decisions that are influenced by the manner in which the information is presented. Frame dependence manifests itself in the way that people form attitudes towards gains...
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Diffusion of Innovations Theory
What is the Diffusion of Innovations Theory? Diffusion of innovations is a theory that seeks to explain how, why, and at what rate new ideas and technology spread. The theory was popularized by Everett Rogers in his book Diffusion of...
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Change Management
What is Change Management? Change management is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change.
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Biases and Errors in Decision Making
What are some common biases and errors in Deicsion Making? here are a plethora of cognitive biases, also known as subconscious errors, that have been studied by psychologists, and it is important to understand that each individual will...
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Behavioral Approach to Leadership
What is Behavioral Approach to Leadership? The behavioral leadership theory focuses on how leaders behave, and assumes that these traits can be copied by other leaders. Sometimes called the style theory, it suggests that leaders aren't...
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Action Learning
What is Action Learning? Action learning is an approach to problem solving involving taking action and reflecting upon the results. This helps improve the problem-solving process as well as simplify the solutions developed by the team.
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Vision Statement in a Business Plan
What is the Vision Statement in a Business Plan? A vision statement is a written declaration clarifying your business's meaning and purpose for stakeholders, especially employees. It describes the desired long-term results of your...
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Theory of Constraints
What is the Theory of Constraints? The theory of constraints is a management paradigm that views any manageable system as being limited in achieving more of its goals by a very small number of constraints.
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Stress (Organizational Behavior)
What is Stress? How is it related to Organizational Behavior? Stress occurs when a demand exceeds an individual's coping ability and disrupts his or her psychological equilibrium. Stress occurs in the workplace when an employee perceives...
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Stakeholder Management
What is Stakeholder Management? Stakeholder management is a critical component in the successful delivery of any project, programme or activity. A stakeholder is any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by, or...
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Six Leadership Styles
Six Leadership Styles. According to Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, there are six emotional leadership styles – Authoritative, Coaching, Affiliative, Democratic, pacesetting
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Performance Management
What is Performance Management in an Organization? “Performance management is the continuous process of improving performance by setting individual and team goals which are aligned to the strategic goals of the organisation, planning...
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Leader Decision Making
What is Leader Decision Making? How does leader decision making fit into behavioral leadership study?
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Would A Nuclear Explosion Actually Destroy An Asteroid?
An apocalyptic asteroid is on a collision course with our wonderful little planet! What do we do?
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Écouter (to listen) — Present Tense
Alexa teaches you how to conjugate Écouter (to listen) in the present tense.