Behavioral Genetic Approaches to Psychophysiological Data

Behavioral and psychophysiological markers of disordered attention.

Behavioral and psychophysiological assays provide the most sensitive indication of whether a presumed neurotoxin has a deleterious effect on the nervous system. The effects of lead on the nervous system are strongly suggestive that this agent can produce disturbances in attention; moreover, there are clinical reports of such effects. The action of lead is also manifest in behaviors described as...

Behavioral Approaches to Obesity Treatment

Obesity is at the forefront of the public health agenda. Why, with all the emphasis on the health risks of obesity and the availability of multiple treatment options, is it so difficult for people to successfully lose and maintain weight? The answer is simple: Most obesity treatment plans tell people what to do but not how to change their behavior. Furthermore, many people attempting weight los...

Assertional and Behavioral approaches to

We compare two proofs of the mutual-exclusion property of the well known critical section algorithm of Peterson: an assertional proof and a behavioral one. The accepted view is that behavioral proofs are informal and are, for some intrinsic reason, error prone. We try to present a different view and to outline a framework within which the behavioral approach can be formalized in a way that keep...

Multivariate approaches to behavioral physiology

During the last decades, studies in the field of behavioral neurosciences have been, in some extent, quite conservative in the renewal of their methods and approaches. Such an issue has been discussed in various papers. For instance, an elegant review by Kalueff and Colleagues [1] highlighted an unfortunate and persisting association: on the one hand, the lack of converging findings and, on the...

The Etiology of ADHD: Behavioral and Molecular Genetic Approaches