Orientation is a fundamental mental function that processes the relations between the behaving self to space (places), time (events), and person (people). Behavioral and neuroimaging studies have hinted at interrelations between processing of these three domains. To unravel the neurocognitive basis of orientation, we used high-resolution 7T functional MRI as 16 subjects compared their subjectiv...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a prolonged, progressive, and incurable dementia that affects an individual, cognitively, functionally and emotionally. A person is unable to think coherently, use reason or logic, language, or may be disoriented to space, time and self. The individual may be unable to start or complete an activity thus becoming easily distracted and frustrated at this loss of purpos...

Lee, J. A., & Pollack, R. H. The effects of age on perceptual problem solving strategies. Witkin's Embedded Figures Test (EFT) was used to measure the changes with age in field dependence and problem-solving ability. Qualitative data concerning problem-solving strategies and quan-

BACKGROUND Management trends in early chronic kidney disease (CKD) and their associations with clinical outcomes have not previously been reported. METHODS We evaluated incident (Stage G3A) CKD patients from an integrated health care system in 2004-06, 2007-09 and 2010-12 to determine adjusted trends in screening (urinary protein quantification), treatment [prescription for angiotensin-conver...

Six passages were used in this study to investigate the recoding behavior of eighth and ninth grade students for both increase and decrease in syntactic complexity and thus gain a more accurate picture of their grammar. Each of the two selections used was written in kernel sentences at the eighth grade level of writing and the skilled adult level of writing. The teacher was asked to distribute ...

In this article, I address the persistent confusion over the meaning of a medical diagnosis of drug addiction or substance dependence in the courtroom, specifically in regard to legal judgments about the reasonable legal person, causation, and individual responsibility in civil actions. Using the example of the Engle tobacco litigation in Florida, where the plaintiffs have reduced mind to brain...