Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications

Practical child and adolescent psychopharmacology

Virtual Reality: theoretical basis, practical applications

Virtual reality (VR) is a powerful multimedia visualization technique offering a range of mechanisms by which many new experiences can be made available. This paper deals with the basic nature of VR, the technologies needed to create it, and its potential, especially for helping disabled people. It also offers an overview of some examples of existing VR systems.

Database challenges and solutions in neuroscientific applications.

In the scientific community, the quality and progress of various endeavors depend in part on the ability of researchers to share and exchange large quantities of heterogeneous data with one another efficiently. This requires controlled sharing and exchange of information among autonomous, distributed, and heterogeneous databases. In this paper, we focus on a neuroscience application, Neuroanato...

Pavlovian psychopharmacology: the associative basis of tolerance.

The Pavlovian conditioning analysis of drug tolerance emphasizes that cues present at the time of drug administration become associated with drug-induced disturbances. These disturbances elicit unconditional responses that compensate for the pharmacological perturbation. The drug-compensatory responses eventually come to be elicited by drug-paired cues. These conditional compensatory responses ...

PUMA PRACTICAL USER MODELLING APPLICATIONS A basis for modelling knowledge

An agenda for modelling knowledge is set down. We argue that for PUM a model that allows for less than perfect behaviour is required. Gärdenfors’ [3] approach is looked at and we explain why we consider that the notion of rationality that underlies Gärdenfors’ approach is too strict for our purposes. It is suggested how we can import epistemic logics based on local reasoning and explicit and im...