~~~~~~ NEUROFEEDBACK NEWS ALERT ~ Week of August 11th, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Neuropsychological deficits in left penetrating brain injury.

Case study of 10-year-old girl with a left hemisphere lesion acquired at 6: she
shows marked deficits in reading, writing and arithmetic, despite early and
small lesion, suggesting incomplete plasticity.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list\
_uids=12850954
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Clinicians' Guide to Adult ADHD: Assessment and Intervention
by Sam Goldstein, Anne Teeter Ellison
Mental health and education scholars discuss how the controversial
attention-deficit syndrome affects adults as well as children.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0122870492/top100
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Cognitive underpinnings of pretend play in autism.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908832

Narrative ability in high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's
syndrome.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908827

ADHD treatment and academic performance
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12899816


Neuropsychological deficits in a child with a left penetrating brain injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12850954

The effect of lamotrigine on the EEGs of children with epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12899863

Narrative and procedural discourse in temporal lobe epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12901779

Changes in religious beliefs following trauma.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12895022

Medically unexplained physical symptoms, anxiety, and depression
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12883101

Is recurrent brief depression an expression of mood spectrum disorders in young
people?Results of a large community sample.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12904979

New advances in the management of anxiety disorders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12897703

Stress, social support and depression in single and married mothers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12910340

Selective elimination of corticogeniculate feedback abolishes the
electroencephalogram dependence of primary visual cortical receptive fields and
reduces their spatial specificity.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12904463

Subdissociative Dose Ketamine Produces a Deficit in Manipulation but not
Maintenance of the Contents of Working Memory.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12888783

Gray and white matter brain abnormalities in first-episode schizophrenia
inferred from magnetization transfer imaging.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12912761

Brain imaging techniques.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12908746

Neural correlates of laughter and humour.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12902310

Effect of antipsychotics on cortical inhibition using transcranial magnetic
stimulation.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12904966

Abnormal brain activation to visual stimulation in cocaine abusers.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12899920

Correlates of Young Adult Tobacco Use
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12882607

Psychological characteristics of volunteers in studies on gambling.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12913397

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