The most striking feature of schizophrenia is the heterogeneity of clinical manifestation and variety of cognitive disturbances. As evident from this clinical description schizophrenia is related to a widespread cortical whole-brain disturbance. It can be useful to describe schizophrenia as a disorder of neural complexity where a segregated brain organization causes fragmentation of experience ...

The present study aims to examine the relationship between expectation about performance in a mental rotation task of 3-D geometrical shapes on a small (standard) and large (novel) display and for each sex. In Experiment 1 we explicitly induced expectations about whether participants would perform better on either the large or small displays. Results revealed that women mentally rotate the 3-D ...

In psychological testing, the majority of psychodiagnostic approaches are strictly psychometric. These approaches have been criticized because of their lack of theoretical grounding in cognitive science and their limited use for decision making. Nichols, Chipman, and Brennan (1995) introduced a cognitive science approach that provides a theoretical basis for the development of methods for cogni...

Mental health textbooks sometimes provide inaccurate information, typically supporting common beliefs in the field. Psychiatry and psychology textbooks’ discussion of the schizophrenia adoption studies is examined. Particular attention is paid to the earlier studies, which helped pave the way for the current widespread acceptance of the importance of genetic factors influencing psychological tr...

Six functions are identified as the most critical (“core” functions) to transportation vehicle energy systems. These selections are validated through analysis of 25 function structures as well as observations of a number of existing energy systems. Identifying which of the core functions and which of the energy types are involved in a given energy system is the Core-Function Modeling strategy (...

This study was to investigate if endogenous pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) can be released during direct splanchnic nerve stimulation in vivo, and to determine whether PACAP in the adrenal gland can modulate the medullary response to sympathoadrenal reflex. The output of adrenal catecholamine and PACAP38-like immunoreactivity (PACAP-38-ir) increased in a frequency-de...