1 Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 3 Human Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 4 Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, ...

How did you first become interested in psychotherapy? My decision to become a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst dates back to the early 1970s, a few years before I entered medical school at the age of 21. At that time, I had read all the books written by psychoanalysts Karen Horney and Erich Fromm. However, my interest in psychological literature had started during adolescence, when I was lucky en...

1 Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 3 Human Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 4 Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, ...

The appeal of simple algorithms that take account of both the constraints of human cognitive capacity and the structure of environments has been an enduring theme in cognitive science. A novel version of such a boundedly rational perspective views the mind as containing an 'adaptive toolbox' of specialized cognitive heuristics suited to different problems. Although intuitively appealing, when t...

In this article, the psycho-socio-biologically integrative concept of affect-logic, and its relevance for a comprehensive understanding and therapy of schizophrenia, is briefly presented. This concept has been developed by the author over the past 20 years, on the basis of the literature, of clinical experience and his own research into long-term evolution, rehabilitation, effects of milieu-the...

Aims: The purpose of the present case is to describe the functional outcome of a patient 1 with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and progressive multifocal leukoencephalopa-thy (PML) on treatment with antiretroviral therapy using a multidisciplinary approach. 3 Methods: Neuropsychological tests and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) were obtained at baseline and after 12 months to define the seve...

Abstract In social interactions, human decision-making, attitudes, and beliefs about others coevolve. Their dynamics are affected by cost-benefit considerations, cognitive processes (such as dissonance, projecting, logic constraints), influences peers (via descriptive injunctive norms) authorities (e.g., educational, cultural, religious, political, administrative, individual or group, real fict...

Continued practice on a task is chorocterized by several quantitative and qualitative changes in performance. The most salient is the speed-up in the time to execute the tosk. To account for these effects, some models of skilled performance have proposed automatic mechanisms that merge knowlege structures associated with the task into fewer, larger structures. The present study investigated how...

This research investigated preservation practices of personal digital information by public library users. This qualitative study used semistructured interviews and two visual representation techniques, information source horizons and matrices, for data collection. The constant comparison method and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. A model emerged which describes the effect...

The contribution of cognitive perspectives (cognitive-developmental theory and gender schema theory) to a contemporary understanding of gender development is evaluated. Recent critiques of cognitive approaches are discussed and empirical evidence is presented to counter these critiques. Because of the centrality of early gender development to the cognitive perspective, the latest research is re...