Psychology (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Donepezil Impairs Memory in Healthy Older Subjects: Behavioural, EEG and Simultaneous EEG/fMRI Biomarkers
(2011)Rising life expectancies coupled with an increasing awareness of age-related cognitive decline have led to the unwarranted use of psychopharmaceuticals, including acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs), by significant ... -
Access to health care of persons with disabilities as an indicator of equity in health systems
(2011)The outcomes of certain health services can be used to assess the overall effectiveness of a health care system. For example, maternal mortality is an indicator of the quality of a country?s maternal health services, which ... -
Moving from family care to residential and supported accommodation: a national, longitudinal study of people with intellectual disabilities
(American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), 2011)A cohort of nearly 11,000 persons was traced over 8 years to determine those who had moved from family care and those who had remained. The majority (85%) continued to live with families, and, for two thirds (67%), no ... -
Everyday episodic memory in amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a preliminary investigation
(2011)Background: Decline in episodic memory is one of the hallmark features of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and is also a defining feature of amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which is posited as a potential prodrome of ... -
Virtual Shapers & Movers: Form and Motion affect Sex Perception
(2007)An experiment to determine factors that influence the perceived sex of virtual characters was conducted. Four different model types were used: highly realistic male and female models, an androgynous character, and a point ... -
Safety and/or hazard near miss reporting in an international energy company
(2011)This paper presents the preliminary progress of an industry driven programme to improve the data monitoring of safety/hazard near miss reporting from front line staff of a branch of a multinational energy supply company ... -
Exploring the recollective experience during autobiographical memory retrieval in amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.
(2010)Autonoetic consciousness refers to the ability to mentally transport oneself back in subjective time to relive elements of, or all, of a past event, and is compromised in the early stages of Alzheimer?s disease (AD). Here, ... -
Anorexia, bulimia, and obesity: Shared decision making deficits on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT).
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)The pathological eating behaviors in Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), and obesity are characterized by a preference for high immediate reward, despite higher future losses in terms of both physical and psychological ... -
The EquiFrame Manual: A tool for Evaluating and Promoting the Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups and Core Concepts of Human Rights in Health Policy Documents
(The Global Health Press, 2011)The purpose of this manual is to outline an analytical framework for assessing the degree to which social inclusion and human rights feature in policy and policy-related documents. The framework was developed with ... -
Investigating Human Factors in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industries
(2011)The aim of this paper is to present the work carried out in a European Commission-funded project to adapt an existing Aircraft Maintenance Human Factors (HF) training program (STAMINA) to the Biotechnology and ... -
Hippocampal inputs mediate theta-related plasticity in anterior thalamus
(Elsevier, 2011)Hippocampally-driven oscillatory activity at theta frequency is found in the diencephalon, but an understanding of the fundamental role of theta in the hippocampo-diencephalic circuit remains elusive. An important strategy ... -
Quantitative MRI analysis of brain volume changes due to controlled cortical impact.
(2010)More than 85% of reported brain traumas are classified clinically as "mild" using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS); qualitative MRI findings are scarce and provide little correspondence to clinical symptoms. Our goal, therefore, ... -
Hippocampal-anterior thalamic pathways for memory: uncovering a network of direct and indirect actions.
(2010)This review charts recent advances from a variety of disciplines that create a new perspective on why the multiple hippocampal?anterior thalamic interconnections are together vital for human episodic memory and rodent event ... -
Differences in "bottom-up" and "top-down" neural activity in current and former cigarette smokers: Evidence for neural substrates which may promote nicotine abstinence through increased cognitive control
(2011)Drug-related stimuli, through conditioning, are thought to acquire incentive motivational properties that code possible reward availability and elicit an attentional bias, possibly through increased "bottom-up" neural ... -
Boys do it the right way: Sex-dependent amygdala lateralization during face processing in adolescents
(2011)Previous studies have observed a sex-dependent lateralization of amygdala activation related to emotional memory. Specifically, it was shown that the activity of the right amygdala correlates significantly stronger with ... -
Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training.
(2011)Executive functioning deficits due to brain disease affecting frontal lobe functions cause significant real-life disability, yet solid evidence in support of executive functioning interventions is lacking. Goal Management ... -
Reduced striatal volume in cocaine-dependent patients
(2011)Long-term cocaine consumption is associated with brain structural and functional changes. While the animal literature on cocaine use and dependence has traditionally focused on the striatum, previous human studies using ... -
Electrophysiological markers of cognitive deficits in Traumatic Brain Injury: A review
(2011)Event-related potentials (ERPs) and oscillatory activity from the human electroencephalogram (EEG) provides a rich source of data that help elucidate specific processing impairments in TBI patients. This review will focus ... -
fMRI activation during response inhibition and error processing: the role of the DAT1 gene in typically developing adolescents and those diagnosed with ADHD
(2011)The DAT1 gene codes for the dopamine transporter, which clears dopamine from the synaptic cleft, and a variant of this gene has previously been associated with compromised response inhibition in both healthy and clinical ... -
Automated spike sorting algorithm based on Laplacian eigenmaps and k-means clustering
(2011)This study presents a new automatic spike sorting method based on feature extraction by Laplacian eigenmaps combined with k-means clustering. The performance of the proposed method was compared against previously reported ...
