Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), a subset of the seizure disorder family, represents a complex neuropsychiatric illness, where the neurological presentation may be complemented by varying severity of affective, behavioral, psychotic, or personality abnormalities, which, in turn, may not only lead to misdiagnosis, but also affect the management. This paper outlines a spectrum of mental health prese...

Much has been written recently about cognitive penetration. If there are perceptual computations that are directly influenced by the information content of certain cognitive states such that the changes in the output of these computations can be accounted for in terms of the content of the penetrating cognitive states, we can talk about the cognitive penetration of perceptual processing.1 When ...

Recently there has been increasing interest in genome-wide epigenetics (or epigenomics) of healthy controls (reference) compared to samples with a specific mental illness, based in part on evidence from rodent models that alterations in epigenetic modifications are implicated in behavioural phenotypes related to mental illness. Unlike genetic sequences, epigenetic modifications are variable and...

This paper focusses upon the level of granularity at which representations for the mental world should be placed. That is, if one wishes to represent thinking about the self, about he states and processes of reasoning, at what level of detail should one attempt to declaratively capture the contents of thought? Some claim that a mere set of two mental primitives are sufficient to represent the u...

One of the original motivations for qualitative physics research was the creation of a computational account of mental models. For instance, a key intuition often associated with mental models is that they are runnable, i.e., there is a sense of deriving answers via mental simulation rather than logical reasoning. This paper examines three explanations for runnability, and argues that none of t...

authSClnat'n? study of a small number of children suffering from oligophrenia. The re, ,?r defines oligophrenia as those forms of mental deficiency which arise as a show *ntra Uterine or early lesions of the central nervous system and which qC|j n5? tendency to progress. Dr. Pevzner's definition is the same as Dr. Lise Th S' excePt that the latter limits the group to up to six years old. aut0 ....

Despite the widespread prevalence of mental illness and the increasingly high need for mental health care, patients with mental illness continually fail to receive adequate or timely treatment. Among other reasons, stigma against and misunderstandings of mental illness prevent millions of people from promptly seeking appropriate medical attention, thereby distressing not only those affected, bu...

A protocol is given which deals cards to three or more players in a fair way. Some related questions are also discussed.