Recently added articles from Clinical EEG and Neuroscience:
The Hippocampus Book
Apr 01, 2008; Niedermeyer, E ... The Hippocampus Book Editors: Andersen P, Morris, R1 Amaral D, Bliss T and O'Keefe J Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007, Hardcover, 832 pages; US $127.00 It sounds incredible 832 pages about the hippocampus! The editors/authors raise the question: "why study the ...
Understanding Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
Apr 01, 2008; Salisbury, Dean ... Over 100 years ago the constellation of psychotic symptoms defining the disorder we now call schizophrenia were presciently aggregated by Emil Kraepelin into his idea of dementia praecox, an early onset, precocious dementing disorder. As indicated by the use of the term dementia, he believed ...
Combining ERP and Structural MRI Information in First Episode Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Apr 01, 2008; McCarley, Robert W; Nakamura, Motoaki; Shenton, Martha E; Salisbury, Dean F ... Key Words Bipolar Disorder Event-related Potential Magnetic Resonance Imaging Multimodal Imaging Schizophrenia ABSTRACT The electrical activity in the electroencephalogram (EEG) and the event-related potentials extracted from the EEG ...
Simultaneous EEG-fMRI: Perspectives in Psychiatry
Apr 01, 2008; Mulert, Christoph; Pogarell, Oliver; Hegerl, Ulrich ... Key Words Electroencephalography Event-related Potentials Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Multimodal Imaging Psychiatry Schizophrenia ABSTRACT Neurophysiological findings such as reduced amplitudes of the P300 potential in ...
Visual Gamma Oscillations in Schizophrenia: Implications for Understanding Neural Circuitry Abnormalities
Apr 01, 2008; Spencer, Kevin M ... Key Words Feature-Binding Gamma Oscillation Schizophrenia Visual Perception ABSTRACT Gamma oscillations may play an important role in the representation of information in the brain by synchronizing the firing of neurons in local and distributed ...
Sensory Gating: A Translational Effort From Basic to Clinical Science
Apr 01, 2008; Cromwell, Howard C; Mears, Ryan P; Wan, Li; Boutros, Nash N ... Key Words Auditory Evoked Response Hippocampus Inhibition Nicotine Prefrontal Cortex Stress Striatum ABSTRACT Sensory gating (SG) is a prevalent physiological process important for information filtering in complex systems ....
Endophenotypes, Dimensions, Risks: Is Psychosis Analogous to Common Inherited Medical Illnesses?
Apr 01, 2008; Pearlson, Godfrey D; Folley, Bradley S ... Keywords Dimensional Classification Epigenetic Genetics Phenotypes Polygenic Schizophrenia Susceptibility ABSTRACT Psychiatric illnesses are perceived as fundamentally different from common medical disorders, a view arising ...
Validating Endophenotypes for Schizophrenia Using Statistical Modeling of Twin Data
Apr 01, 2008; Hall, Mei-Hua; Rijsdijk, Frühling ... Key Words Endophenotype Mismatch Negativity P50 P300 Statistical Modeling Twin Study ABSTRACT The use of endophenotypes (intermediate quantitative traits) is one strategy that may provide valuable information about the neural ...
Corollary Discharge Dysfunction in Schizophrenia: Evidence for an Elemental Deficit
Apr 01, 2008; Mathalon, Daniel H; Ford, Judith M ... Key Words Apathy Corollary Discharge Efference Copy Electroencephalography Hallucination Schizophrenia ABSTRACT Evidence is accumulating that schizophrenia is characterized by dysfunction of efference copy/corollary discharge ...
Auditory/Verbal Hallucinations, Speech Perception Neurocircuitry, and the Social Deafferentation Hypothesis
Apr 01, 2008; Hoffman, Ralph E ... Key Words Auditory Verbal Hallucinations Deafferentation Social Withdrawal Speech Perception Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation ABSTRACT Auditory/verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are comprised of spoken conversational speech seeming to arise ...
Hallucinations, Thought Disorders, and the Language Domain in Schizophrenia
Apr 01, 2008; Strik, W; Dierks, T; Hubl, D; Horn, H ... Key Words Formal Thought Disorders Functional Brain Imaging Hallucinations Language Theory Schizophrenia ABSTRACT Auditory hallucinations and formal thought disorders are major diagnostic features of schizophrenia. From a neurobiological ...
Future Directions for Examining Semantic Memory in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Apr 01, 2008; Niznikiewicz, M ... Key Words Event-related Potential Language Memory Structure Schizophrenia Semantic Networks ABSTRACT Language abnormalities in schizophrenia are regarded as a hallmark of the disease. Clinical investigations provided accurate descriptions ...
Building Meaning in Schizophrenia
Apr 01, 2008; Kuperberg, Gina R ... Key Words Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex/DLPFC Event-related Potentials/ERP Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging/fMRI Language N400 Prefrontal Cortex Real-world Events Semantic Schizophrenia Syntax Temporal ...
Semantic Activation and Verbal Working Memory Maintenance in Schizophrenic Thought Disorder: Insights from Electrophysiology and Lexical Amibiguity
Apr 01, 2008; Salisbury, Dean F ... Key Words Event-related Potentials Homographs Hyper-priming N400 Schizophrenia Semantic Ambiguity Semantic Memory Thought Disorder ABSTRACT We have examined language processing using ambiguous words (homographs like ...
Attenuated Modulation of the N170 ERP by Facial Expressions in Schizophrenia
Apr 01, 2008; Lynn, S K; Salisbury, D F ... Key Words Emotion Event-related Potential Face N170 Schizophrenia ABSTRACT In psychiatrically-well subjects the modulation of event related potentials (ERPs) by emotional facial expressions is found in several ERPs from ~100 ms and later. A ...