Stress resulting from living in large cities (and alienation in certain individuals) fuels the high incidence of psychiatric illnesses in modern metropolises. Some pathology as Schizophrenia and Asperger has deficits on social cognition mechanisms and its presentation may be influenced by social environmental impact. Even more, common mental disease such as depression and personality disorders ...

1 Neuroscience Research Australia, Sydney, Australia 2 School of Medical Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 3 ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 4 Brain Dynamics and Cognition, Lyon Neuroscience Research Centre, INSERM U1028, CNRS UMR 5292, Lyon, France 5 Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon...

Excitatory-inhibitory (E/I) balance is essential for normal neural development, behavior and cognition. E/I imbalance leads to a variety of neurological disorders, such as autism schizophrenia. NMDA receptors (NMDARs) regulate AMPAR-mediated excitatory GABA A R-mediated inhibitory synaptic transmission, suggesting that NMDARs play an important role in the establishment maintenance balance. In t...

Kristen Porter Ian Hales Capstone ATLS 4010 March 11, 2015 DSM-V Revisions and The Interpretation of Measurable Traits Versus The Diagnoses of Personality Disorders Personality disorders are commonly defined as patterns of cognition, affectivity, interpersonal behavior, and impulse control that culturally deviate from the norm, that are pervasive, inflexible, and substantially hinder the daily ...

Brain asymmetry, involving structural and functional differences between the two hemispheres, is a major organizational principle of human brain. The connectivity within each hemisphere defines hemispheric network or connectome. Elucidating left-right provides opportunities for brain asymmetry exploration. This review examines in white matter to assess health disorders. In this article, includi...

Objectives Cognition and speech disorders are the most common symptoms of dementia in neurodegenerative disease. Here, we present a detailed clinical evaluation of a case of logopenic variant of primary progressive aphasia (lv-PPA), an atypical form of Alzheimer disease (AD), including cognitive testing over time, brain imaging, electrophysiology, and tests of olfactory function. Case report ...

Pharmacological cognitive enhancers (PCEs) are used to improve cognitive functions, such as attention, learning, memory and planning in patients with impairments in cognition resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) or from neuropsychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment, schizophrenia, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Moreover, PCEs...

Children with one of two genetic disorders (chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and Turner syndrome) as well typically developing controls, participated in three cognitive processing experiments. Two experiments were designed to test cognitive processes involved in basic aspects numerical cognition. The third was a test of simple manual motor reaction time. Despite significant differences in g...