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• The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (Essays in Cognitive Psychology)

  
  Psychology Problems, Advice, Information & Product Offers — Authority: 131
  The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia (Essays in Cognitive Psychology) Schizophrenic patients have bizarre experiences which reflect a disorder in the contents of consciousness. For example, patients hear voices talking about them or they are convinced that alien forces are controlling their actions. Their ...
  6 days ago

• Probing the Neural Networks of Human Conflict

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  Why do some human groups appear to hate each other? New research by a group of neuroscientists attempts to use brain imaging to determine how the brain responds to empathy and conflict-resolution. Emile Bruneau and Rebecca Saxe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying why empathy — the ability to feel ...
  1 week ago

• Human Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Textbook With Readings

  
  Psychology Problems, Advice, Information & Product Offers — Authority: 131
  Human Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Textbook With Readings This textbook augments the first edition through the inclusion of a set of reseach and review papers selected by the authors to supplement the contents of each chapter by providing a discussion of research issues and detailed investigation of individual cases. ...
  2 weeks ago

• HM, the Man with No Memory

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Henry Molaison (HM) gave science the ultimate gift: his memory. Over 55 years he became the most studied medical case in history, and on death his brain was dissected into 2000 slices and digitized as a three-dimensional brain map, preserving his tragically unique brain for posterity. read more
  2 weeks ago

• The Neuropsychology of Opioid Abuse

  
  Brain Posts — Authority: 101
  This is the last post in a series on prescription opioid abuse and dependence.   Prescription opioid overdose fatalities is a growing public health problem in the United States.  This problem varies by state of residence .  There are effective pharmacological strategies for the treatment of opioid dependence, ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Handbook of Sport Neuropsychology

  
  Psychology Problems, Advice, Information & Product Offers — Authority: 131
  The Handbook of Sport Neuropsychology An estimated 300,000 sports-related concussions occur every year in the United States. Frank Webbe, one of the leaders in the emerging field of sport neuropsychology, presents the first handbook of sport neuropsychology. Webbe approaches the field using a conceptual framework, by ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Do We Recognize Faces?

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  A new line of research investigates why some individuals are better at recognizing faces than others. The study expands on prior findings that have discovered we are better at recognizing faces from our own race than others. And, of course even within the same race, some individuals easily recognize people they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lack of Iron in Teen Years Could Impact Brain Later in Life

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  Researchers have found that a lack of iron during the teen years can have a negative impact on the brain years later, setting the stage for disorders such as Alzheimer’s. Paul Thompson, a neurology professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, measured levels of transferrin, a protein that transports iron ...
  2 weeks ago

• HM, the man with no memory.

  
  Blogs — Authority: 147
  Henry Molaison (HM) gave science the ultimate gift; his memory. Over 55 years he became the most studied medical case in history, and on death his brain was dissected into 2000 slices and digitized as a three-dimensional brain map, preserving his tragically unique brain for posterity. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Imaging Shows How Brain Shifts Connections for Optimal Alertness

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  A new study uses imaging technology to show how the brain reacts to environmental cues to ensure maximal productivity. Specifically, University of California - Davis researchers studied how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations. “In ...
  2 weeks ago

• Deep Brain Stimulation Lessens Parkinson’s Symptoms

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  Emerging research indicates that deep brain stimulation (DBS) can improve motor symptoms and enhance quality of life in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. The finding, reported in the online version of The Lancet Neurology journal is published by researchers at the University of Florida and 14 additional ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neural efficiency and general intelligence: Is it mental quickness or timing?

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 118
  Today I made a post at IM-HOME discussing the neural efficiency = general intelligence hypothesis (Arthur Jensen) where I make the case that recent research suggests that temporal or timing g (the internal brain clock) is a more fundamental cause of neural efficiency than the dominant Jensen reaction time g ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain Imaging Aids in Understanding Delusions

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  Delusions are strong false beliefs that persist despite evidence to the contrary. While delusions are associated with neurological or mental illness, they are not tied to any particular disease although they often aid in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and psychotic depression. New ...
  3 weeks ago

• Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders: Variation of Manifestation in Childhood (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology)

  
  Psychology Problems, Advice, Information & Product Offers — Authority: 131
  Neurogenetic Developmental Disorders: Variation of Manifestation in Childhood (Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology) Genetic disorders in children can have highly variable effects. Even relatively common disorders may go undiagnosed and untreated by clinicians who are not familiar with the range of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Additional Drug, Intuniv, May Help Some Kids with ADHD

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  New research investigates the benefit of adding an additional drug for children who have displayed a suboptimal response to traditional attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) medication. In the study, Timothy E. Wilens, M.D., and colleagues assessed the efficacy and safety of guanfacine extended release (GXR, also ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is Deep Brain Stimulation Useful In Treating Depression?

  
  Providentia — Authority: 450
  Considering the long controversy over the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treating mental illness , it hardly seems surprising that new approaches involving deep brain stimulation to treat depression are being viewed with suspicion by mental health critics.  While use of electrodes surgically placed in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Atkins MR/ID Death Penalty Court Decision: Sanchez v PA (2010)

  
  Intellectual Competence & the Death Penalty — Authority: 109
  Sanchez v PA (2010) showed up in my inbox late last week. I have not read it but am adding it to the court decision blogroll. It was communicated to me that it is an important case for those in PA (since it sets the standard for resolving Atkins cases in that state) and because of the nice summary it provides ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain Imaging Aids in Diagnosing Dementia

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 588
  The use of advancedd technology to detect and diagnose brain abnormalities has advanced significantly over the past decade. A new review finds a particular method of positron emission tomography (PET) can safely and accurately detect dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. PET technology is an advanced radiological ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nerve disease – Info on Neurology Houston

  
  Psychology Problems, Advice, Information & Product Offers — Authority: 131
  by gever tulley Nerve disease - Info on Neurology Houston Article by James Pendleton Neurology is really a medical specialty coping with disorders from the central nervous system. Particularly, it handles diagnosing and management of all groups of disease including the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous ...
  3 weeks ago

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