~~~~~~ EEG ALERT ~ Week of February 9th, 2004 ~~~~~~~~~~

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The Amygdala, Social Behavior, and Danger Detection.

The amygdala seems to primarily evaluate the environment for potential dangers,
and thus its role in social function is to inhibit social interaction with novel
conspecifics while they are evaluated as potential adversaries.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list\
_uids=14766647
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Cognitive Neuroscience of Development
by Michelle De Hann, Mark H. Johnson, Michelle de Haan, Arthur H. Evans, Mark
Johnson

Overview of methods used to study emerging interface between neurobiological and
psychological perspectives in typical and atypical cognitive development.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184169214X/top100
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Nongenetic pathologic developments of brain-wave patterns in monozygotic twins
discordant and concordant for schizophrenia.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14755436

The Amygdala, Social Behavior, and Danger Detection.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14766647

How well does IQ predict neuropsychological test performance in normal adults?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14751010

Effects of skull thickness, anisotropy, and inhomogeneity on forward EEG/ERP
computations using a spherical three-dimensional resistor mesh model.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14755596

Brain activation measured with FMRI during a mental arithmetic task in
schizophrenia and major depression.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14754778

Awareness of activity limitations and prediction of performance in patients with
brain injuries and orthopedic disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14759265

Stroke outcome and neuroimaging of intracranial atherosclerosis (SONIA)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14765534

Imaging a cognitive model of apraxia
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14755833

Effects of discotheque music on audiometric results and central acoustic evoked
neuromagnetic responses.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14763230

Darwin and the Neural Bases of Emotion and Affective Style.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14766646

Vertigo as a prognostic sign in sudden sensorineural hearing loss.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14763225
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