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By Steven Matthysse (editor), Francine M. Benes (editor), Deborah L. Levy (editor), Jerome Kagan (editor)

ISBN-10: 0511664052

ISBN-13: 9780511664052

ISBN-10: 0521032598

ISBN-13: 9780521032599

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ISBN-13: 9780521444699

The clinical learn of psychological illness is intriguing at the present time due to new discoveries in molecular genetics, cognitive methods, neurochemistry and neuroanatomy. Psychopathology combines those fields of study to provide a complete photo of psychosis. during this very important quantity, unusual investigators from those fields current new findings from their laboratories, in addition to views on components of speedy progress and alter. The editors additionally offer considerate overviews of 4 significant issues in psychopathology study: mind mechanisms, considering, improvement and genetics.

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This pattern of deficits is similar to that observed in frontal lobe patients who are prone to "forgetting to remember" (Hecaen and Albert, 1978). , 1986). , 1986). There is also some indirect evidence for the role of the frontal system in the working memory deficit of schizophrenic patients. Neuropsy- 38 Sohee Park & Gillian O'Driscoll Oculomotor Memory Task Oculomotor Sensory Control Task fixate st i muI us target is flashed (200ms) target comes on \/ delay period target is present target is absent Response [love eyes to remembered position of the target move eye3 to the target Figure j .

1985) Frontal lobe lesions in man cause difficulties in suppressing reflexive glances and in genetating goal-directed saccades. Exp. Brain Res. 58:455-472. Harlow, H. F. (1959) The development of learning in the rhesus monkey. Amer. Scientist 47:459-479. Ingvar, D. H. (1980) Abnormal distribution of cerebral activity in chronic schizophrenia: A neurophysiological interpretation. In C. Baxter and T. , Perspectives in Schizophrenia, p. 107. New York: Raven Press. , Smith, E. , Koeppe, R. , and Mintun, M.

We have discussed how some cognitive features of schizophrenia and frontal lobe patients may be conceptualized as dysfunctions of the * On this point, see also Chapter 5, by Deborah L. Levy, this volume - Eds. 40 Sohee Park & Gillian O'Driscoll central executive system. Although the delayed-response task is a simple procedure, successful performance may depend on these functional components: 1. 2. 3. 4. Mental representation of goal or sequence Maintenance of target representation during the delay period Inhibition of competing, irrelevant stimuli Initiation and execution of an appropriate motor response Failure to facilitate any of these hypothetical components may lead to an overall deficit in goal-directedness.

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