10 Sunday Nov 2013
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24 Thursday Oct 2013
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“Research examining the impact of pharmacological as well as enviromental manipulations on mental growth, and lasting cognitive function, could provide a potentially fruitfull avenue for novel treatments for this highly impairing and oftentimes life-long disorder”.
Halperin and Healey on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2011 January; 35(3): 621-634
23 Wednesday Oct 2013
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“Apart from being enjoyable, games provide opportunities for parents to set clear rules and place limits around children´s behavior, perhaps leading to an increased sense of parenting efficacy”.
O´Neill, Rajendran and Halperin on Play-based therapies for Attention Deficicit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Expert Rev. Neurother. 12(10), 1165-1167 (2012)
15 Tuesday Oct 2013
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Dr. Yasuo Tanaka from Hokkaido University, Japan, illustrates in this short anime the daily life of an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) child: how does him perceive his impairments and social incomprehension, and how their parents, siblings, colleagues and teachers do: their questions, their concerns and hopes.
A simply and entertaining overlook on this common mental disorder with an optimistic perspective: it´s not late to help them to do their best and realize its amazing potential.
To see the video, click the link below:
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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The GWAS include all published evidence on the genetic basis of human diseases. The genetics has adquired an overwhelming interest in all Medicine fields, but more specially in those disorders without clear pathogenesis.
High heritability has been seen in many of psychiatric disorders, as shizofrenia, bipolar disorder and ADHD. There is hope that GWAS will partially explain this fact and improve our knowledge on biologic basis of mental pathology.
Here is the link to look in GWAS catalog for all studies on every topic. It is possible to review the index or search by specific diseases.
18 Tuesday Jun 2013
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Howard Abikoff is the Pevaroff Cohn Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the director of the Institute for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity and Behavior Disorders, a lecturer for child and adolescent psychiatry residents and psychology interns, and scientific advisor at the NYU Summer Program for Kids. He is a member of the Faculty Board of Reviewers and the Research Compliance Oversight Committee at the NYU School of Medicine.
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Katya Rubia is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/SGDP. Katya Rubia did her PhD in 1994 in Cognitive Neuroscience in Munich, Germany, investigating the neural substrates of timing functions in brain lesion patients. After post-doc periods at the University of Munich and of Amsterdam she has since 1995 been working at the IOP on experimental psychology and fMRI research. Her imaging work has focused on the neural substrates of impulsiveness related cognitive functions in healthy adults, in normal development and in abnormal development, in particular in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), but also related psychiatric disorders, including conduct disorder, OCD, autism, depression, and others. The main focus in the field of experimental psychology has been on the design of novel tests to measure impulsiveness in and outside the fMRI scanner, including tests of inhibition, attention and timing, which has resulted in the design of a task battery, the Maudsley Attention and Response task battery (MARS, Rubia et al., 2001, 2007). Other interests are the investigation of the specificity of brain abnormalities in childhood disorders via fMRI comparisons between related neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, conduct disorder, major depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and preterm born children. Other interests include pharmacological fMRI using neurotransmitter manipulations such as Tryptophan depletion and psychopharmaca, neuroendocrine correlations with neuroimaging data, and gene-imaging interactions.
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Jeffrey Halperin received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) in1979 and completed a Post-doctoral Fellowship in Psychopharmacology at Schering – Plough Pharmaceutical Corporation in 1980. After serving as a Research Associate at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for three years, he accepted a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he served as the Director of Child Psychology from 1984 – 1989. While maintaining a part-time affiliation with Mount Sinai, in 1989 Dr. Halperin accepted a full-time position in the Department of Psychology at Queens College. Currently, he is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, and is a full-time member of the Neuropsychology Doctoral faculty.
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Ian Whishaw received his Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in 1971. He moved to the University of Lethbridge in 1970, where he is currently a Professor of Neuroscience. He has had visiting appointments at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, Cambridge University, and the University of Strasbourg, France. He is also a Fellow of Clair Hall, Cambridge. His current research examines how the precise details of bodily movements are influenced by injury or disease to the motor systems of rodents and humans, and the neuroanatomical basis of gesturing. Whishaw is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of a bronze medal from the Canadian Humane Society, a recipient of the Ingrid Speaker Medal for research, a recipient of a 2009 Alberta Science and Technology “Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Science” award, and is president of NeuroInvestigations, Inc.
15 Saturday Jun 2013
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Bryan Kolb has published 5 books, including two textbooks with Ian Whishaw (Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology, Sixth Edition; Introduction to Brain and Behavior, Third Edition), and roughly 350 articles and chapters. Kolb was awarded a Killam Fellowship from the Canada Council and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a former President of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science and former President of the Experimental Division of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is recipient of the Hebb from both CSBBCS and CPA. He is currently a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research’s program on Experience Based Brain Development.
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