The acquired distinctiveness of cues: the role of discriminative verbal responses in facilitating the acquisition of discriminative motor responses.

Involvement of NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors in the nucleus accumbens core in instrumental learning guided by reward-predictive cues.

The use of reward-predictive cues to guide behavior critically involves the nucleus accumbens. However, little is known regarding the role of ionotropic glutamate receptors in the core subregion of the nucleus accumbens (AcbC) in instrumental learning guided by reward-predictive cues. Here we examined the effects of an intra-AcbC blockade of NMDA and AMPA/KA receptors on the acquisition of an i...

Discriminative Role of Bullying and Moral Intelligence in Suicide Probability among High School Students of Sanandaj City in the 2017-2018 Academic Year: A Descriptive Study

  Background and Objectives: Bullying and moral intelligence are considered as important factors affecting the probability of suicide among students. Therefore, The aim of this study was to determine the role of bullying and moral intelligence as a predictor of suicide probability among students. Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive study. The statistical population included se...

A Survey on Distractors in Multiple-choice Questions and its Relationship on Difficulty and Discriminative Indices

Introduction: The distractors have a very important role in Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) and it can influence the quality of the tests. This study aimed to investigate frequency of functioning and non-functioning distractors and the relationship between the distractors options with difficulty and discrimination in Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical sciences in 2017. Methods: In this desc...

The role of the acquired distinctiveness of cues in the acquisition of a motor skill in children.

عدم درک درد در نوجوان 12 ساله (گزارش موردی)

Background: People vary greatly in their response to painful stimuli, from those with a low pain threshold to those with indifference to pain. However, insensitivity to pain is a rare disorder, characterized by the lack of usual subjective and objective responses to noxious stimuli. Patients who have congenital indifference to pain sustain painless injuries beginning in infancy, but have sensor...