Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2011 Therapeutic Approaches, Comorbidity, and Outcomes Schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders such as schizoaffective and mood disorders, schizophreniform disorders, brief psychotic disorders, delusional and shared psychotic disorders, and personality (i.e., schizotypal, paranoid, and schizoid personality) disorders are the most debilitating forms of mental illness, worldwide.
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Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2011 Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations Schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders such as schizoaffective and mood disorders, schizophreniform disorders, brief psychotic disorders, delusional and shared psychotic disorders, and personality (i.e., schizotypal, paranoid, and schizoid personality) disorders are the most debilitating forms of mental illness, worldwide.
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Michael S. Ritsner Editor 2011 Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances Schizophrenia spectrum and related disorders such as schizoaffective and mood disorders, schizophreniform disorders, brief psychotic disorders, delusional and shared psychotic disorders, and personality (i.e., schizotypal, paranoid, and schizoid personality) disorders are the most debilitating forms of mental illness, worldwide.
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Petr Bob 2011 More than three centuries ago, Rene Descartes looked for “the seat of the soul” within the brain that could integrate res cogitans, representing the inner world, with res extensa – the outside world.Descartes thought that this special place is involved in sensation, imagination, memory, and the causation of bodily movements, and described the mind […]
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Ronald A. Cohen · Lawrence H. Sweet Editors 2011 Rapid developments in brain imaging have occurred over the past decade. These advances have revolutionized cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, and are likely to have major influence on clinical psychological, psychiatric, and neurological practice over the coming years.
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Richard L. Wanlass 2012 Neuropsychology is not a particularly forgiving profession. The stakes of our evaluations are often high. Costly damage claims or disability awards may hinge on our findings. Our reports can form the basis on which rights and autonomy are denied for some, or the basis on which legal responsibility is absolved for others.
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Bjørn Grinde 2012 Happiness is a somewhat vague term. In the existing literature, most of it based on philosophy and the social sciences, it is possible to distinguish between two broad ways of applying the word. One is to use happiness as a value term for how life ought to be; i.e. somewhat synonymous with well-being, flourishing or […]
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David Aaron Maroof 2012 Common Procedures Made Comprehensible I realize that given the miscegenation between neuropsychology and statistics, dovetailing the two into a book, this book, would be a step in the right direction. That step includes the explaining of several of the uses and purposes of some very common statistical analyses.
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Mark A. Geyer • Gerhard Gross Editors 2012 Six decades after the serendipitous discovery of chlorpromazine as an antipsychotic and four decades after the launch of clozapine, the first atypical or secondgeneration antipsychotic, psychopharmacology has arrived at an important crossroad.
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Marvin H. Podd 2012 The idea of treating the symptoms of brain damage is not new. However, with the advent of Luria’s theory (1948, 1966) of brain functioning and his descriptions of its application to remediation of deficits (Luria 1948, 1963) a different approach to treatment became available.
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