In recent years, a number of researchers have suggested schizophrenia be viewed as a disorder of brain connectivity (e.g., Andreasen, 2000; Crow, 1998; Friston and Frith, 1995; Selemon and Goldman-Rakic, 1999). This view is intuitively appealing, as schizophrenia was conceptualized by Bleuler (1950) as a "splitting of the psychic functions" in which aspects of thought and personality were disin...

Functional MRI (fMRI) was used to examine human brain activity within the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during a sensorimotor task that had been proposed to require selection between several responses, a cognitive concept termed "willed action" in a positron emission tomography (PET) study by Frith et al. [Frith, C. D., Friston, K., Liddle, P. F. & Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1991) Proc. R. Soc. Lon...

We would like to thank Pollock (1), Frith (2) and Cox (3) for their interesting analyses and suggestions on our article “Morality and markets in the NHS”. A number of important themes arise: the lack of either practicality or morality of a healthcare market or privatisation; the need for values to be supported (where possible) by legislation; and the crucial importance of humanity and compassio...

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There is a wide body of research to support the view that children with low levels of phonemic awareness on entering school are more likely to be poorer readers and spellers than those with high levels (Adams, 1990; Bradley & Bryant, 1983, 1985; Frith, 1985; Mann, 1993; Snow, Burns & Griffin, 1998). Because academic success is largely dependent upon reading, teachers need a quick and accurate w...

1. Byles DB, Frith P, Salmon JF. Anterior uveitis as a side effect of topical brimonidine. Am J Ophthalmol. 2000;130:287-291. 2. Goyal R, Ram AR. Brimonidine tartrate 0.2% (Alphagan) associated granulomatous anterior uveitis. Eye. 2000;14:908-910. 3. Cantor LB. The evolving pharmacotherapeutic profile of brimonidine, an alpha 2-adrenergic agonist, after four years of continuous use. Expert Opin...

The Sunbittern (Eurypyga hellas) inhabits tropical swamps and mountain streams from southern Mexico to Brazil. It is the sole member of the family Eurypygidae, one of several unusual and poorly studied gruiform families, and its breeding behavior is therefore of special interest. Although they frequently breed in captivity (Coimbra Filho 1965, Frith 1978, Wennrick 1981) and one nest in the wild...

A currently popular view traces autistic cognitive abnormalities to a defective capacity for theorizing about other minds. Two prominent researchers, Uta Frith and Francesca Happé, extend this account by tracing further autistic abnormalities to impaired self-consciousness. This paper argues that Frith and Happé’s account requires a treatment of autistic self-report that is problematic on both ...

john gardner’s grendel is a celebrated example of the ontological postmodernist fiction. along with a discovery of self with which grendel the narrator of the novel is concerned, grand narratives such as philosophy are questioned. grendel denies the external objective reality and generously allows the legitimacy of fantastic and non-realistic methods by using “life-affirming fabulous art” as it...