Cognitive deficits are core to the disability associated with many psychiatric disorders. Both variation in cognition and psychiatric risk show substantial heritability, with overlapping genetic variants contributing to both. Unsurprisingly, therefore, these fields have been mutually beneficial : just as cognitive studies of psychiatric risk variants may identify genes involved in cognition, so...

To my family for their immense love and support And Varun for believing in me ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first of all like to thank Prof. Aniruddha Gokhale for showing faith in my abilities throughout my stay at Vanderbilt. His research thought process and teaching skills always influenced me. I would also like to thank Dr. Jules White for his useful comments and support for my thesis. encouragem...

In this paper, I will question the traditional definition according to which the creative process is the solving of especially complex problems. After a brief introduction, I aim to show that every instance of successful problem solving constitutes a creative process which results in a creative product. In this view, the conventionally assumed relationship of creativity and problem solving is r...

The Mini-Mental State Examination is a widely used cognitive screening measure. The purpose of the present study was to assess how 5 specific clusters of Mini-Mental State Examination items (ie, subscores) correlate with and predict specific areas of daily functioning in dementia patients, 61 patients with varied forms of dementia were administered the Mini-Mental State Examination and an obser...

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Washington University Two tests of suggestibility?the size-weight illusion and the progressive weights1?were given to thirty-five of the delinquents brought to the St. Louis Psychiatric Clinic2 for examination during January and February, 1924. The Stanford Revision of the BinetSimon Intelligence Scale was given to each as part of the routine work of the clini...

I find this to be a stimulating, if not an important piece of work, and propose to give it a fairly exhaustive review. It is concerned, as the title states, with the range of human capacities. " When we compare the mathematical ability of an Einstein, or the scientific intuition of a Pasteur or the poetic gifts of a Shakespeare, with the correlative abilities of average men, let alone those of ...

Among the wide-spectrum contribution of the Rambam - the Maimonides - in philosophy to the word and to Judaism are his ideas on the body and on the soul and on the relations between them. His major approaches in these subjects are the following: 1) The body is the home of the soul, and the soul guides the body. That means the body and the soul are one unit. 2) The soul has five virtual parts. E...

Typically, adults give a primary role to the agent's intention to harm when performing a moral judgment of accidental harm. By contrast, children often focus on outcomes, underestimating the actor's mental states when judging someone for his action, and rely on what we suppose to be intuitive and emotional processes. The present study explored the processes involved in the development of the ca...

Abstract This article published in Gruppe Interaktion Organisation (GIO) reports study results on soft skills and mental work ability young professionals ready to enter the job market. The so-called (psychological capacities) are nowadays an entrance ticket into modern working world. Thus, question is which degree who will soon labor market fit their skills. Are physical or health problems rela...