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1 Churchwell, John C.; Lopez-Larson, Melissa; Yurgelun-Todd, Deborah A.Altered frontal cortical volume and decision making in adolescent cannabis usersAnticipating future outcomes is central to decision making and a failure to consider long-term consequences may lead to impulsive choices. Adolescence is a vulnerable period during which underdeveloped prefrontal cortical systems may contribute to poor judgment, impulsive choices, and substance ab...2010
2 Florsheim, Paul W.Cross-cultural views of self in the treatment of mental illness: disentangling the curative aspects of myth from the mythic aspects of cureTHIS paper compares Eastern and Western concepts of self within the context of the healing process. I draw upon the work of Sudhir Kakar and Heinz Kohut to illustrate differences in how mental illness is expressed and treated in India and the United States. I propose that cultural variances in the w...1990
3 Jones, Bryan W.; Jones, Christopher R.; Czajkowski, LauraFamilial advanced sleep-phase syndrome: a short-period circadian rhythmvariant in humansBiological circadian clocks oscillate with an approximately 24-hour period, are ubiquitous, and presumably confer a selective advantage by anticipating the transitions between day and night. The circadian rhythms of sleep, melatonin secretion and body core temperature are thought to be generated by ...Activity Cycles; Matched-Pair Analysis; Polysomnography1999
4 Digre, Kathleen B.; Kleinschmidt, Julia J.; Hanover, RitaIdiopathic intracranial hypertension. Relationship to depression, anxiety, and quality of lifeOBJECTIVE: To explore the incidence of depression and anxiety and to measure quality of life in women with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), a matched group cross-sectional study was conducted. Women with IIH (n = 28) were compared with control groups of weight- and age-matched women not d...Intracranial Hypertension; Depression; Anxiety; Quality of Life2000-01-25
5 Florsheim, Paul W.Mourning the loss of "self as father": a longitudinal study of fatherhood among the druzeIT is within the context of the parent-child relationship - through the processes of attachment, loss, separation and individuation - that we grow and develop interpersonally and intrapsychically (Bowlby 1969, 1980; Mahler et al. 1975; Pollock, 1989). Most developmentalists agree that changes in th...1992
6 Drews, FrankNegative priming and stimulus repetition: a reply to Neill and JoordensNegative priming is reliably obtained with repeated items, but not with novel items. Here, we review why these stimulus repetition effects raise problems for memory based theories of negative priming. Furthermore, we provide empirical evidence casting doubt on Neill and Joordens's (2002) claimthat...Negative priming; Stimuli; Perception2002
7 Reimherr, Frederick W.Neuropsychological functioning and OROS® methylphenidate in an Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) populationObjective: Neuropsychological tests have been used in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to compare ADHD patients with normal subjects, to assess drug-placebo differences in clinical trials and to identify appropriate medication levels via test dose paradigms. While clinical studies h...Trapeze Interactive Poster2010-03-15
8 Kious, Brent M.Physician aid-in-dying and suicide prevention in psychiatry: a moral crisis?Involuntary psychiatric commitment for suicide prevention and physician aid-in-dying (PAD) in terminal illness combine to create a moral dilemma. If PAD in terminal illness is permissible, it should also be permissible for some who suffer from non-terminal psychiatric illness: suffering provides muc...suicide; physician aid-in-dying; psychiatry; civil commitment; mental illness; competence; suffering2019
9 Sung, Younghoon; Renshaw, Perry FranklinPrefrontal grey-matter changes in short-term and long-term abstinent methamphetamine abusersAuthor's explored grey-matter density in 29 methamphetamine abusers and 20 healthy comparison subjects using voxel-based morphometry. Grey-matter density changes and performances on the Wisconsin Card Sorting test (WCST) were also compared between 11 short-term (<6 months) and 18 long-term (o6 mon...2006
10 Sung, Younghoon; Kondo, Douglas Gavin; Jeong, Eun-Kee; Renshaw, Perry FranklinReview: magnetic resonance spectroscopy studies of pediatric major depressive disorderIntroduction. This paper focuses on the application of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) to the study of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) in children and adolescents. Method. A literature search using the National Institutes of Health?s PubMed database was conducted to identify indexed peer-revie...2011
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