Brain


Mental Capital Through Life: Future Challenges - Mental Capital And Wellbeing: Making The Most Of Ourselves In The 21st Century; by Mental Capital and Well Being Project; The Government Office for Science; UK; 2008
Ethical Aspects of Developments in Neuroscience and Drug Addiction; by Richard Ashcroft, Alastair V. Campbell, Ben Capps; A Foresight Project - Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs
Fluctuating Asymmetry Predicts Human Reactive Aggression; by Zeynep Benderlioglu, Paul W. Sciull and Randy J. Nelson; American Journal Of Human Biology, Vol 16, 2004
Brain Facts: A Primer on the Brain and Nervous System; Society for Neuroscience; 2008
Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development; Child Welfare Information Gateway; 2009
Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain - Working Paper No. 3;  by National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (2005)
NOTE - There is a link to download the entire document in PDF format at the bottom of the page
Phosphodiesterase Inhibition Increases CREB Phosphorylation and Restores Orientation Selectivity in a Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders;  by Thomas E. Krahe, Weili Wang, Alexandre E. Medina; Public Library of Science (PLoS) Vol 4 No 8
Also appears under - Animal Research and Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and The Brain
The Brain from Top to Bottom
Windows of Vulnerability: An Overview of Brain Development and Susceptibility to Environmental Contaminants; by Ted Schettler; Pollution, Toxic Chemicals, and Mental Retardation: A National Summit; AAMR
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, UCLA
A Neurodevelopmental Profile of Infants with Fetal Alcohol Spectgrum Disorder (FASD) in the Northern Cape Region South Africa; thesis, by Leigh Anne Fourie, University of South Africa; 2006
Prefrontal Cortex and Episodic Memory:. Integrating Findings from Neuropsychology and Functional Brain Imaging; by Charan Ranganath and Robert T. Knight ; Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley;
Working Memory, Inhibitory Control and the Development of Children's Reasoning; by Simon J. Handley, A. Capon, M. Beveridge, I. Dennis, and J. St. B. T. Evans; Thinking and Reasoning Vol 10, N0 2; 2004
Severity Of Neuropsychological Impairment In Cocaine And Alcohol Addiction: Association With Metabolism In The Prefrontal Cortex; by Rita Z. Goldstein, Andreana C. Leskovjan, Anne L. Hoff, Robert Hitzemann, Francine Bashan, Sahib Singh Khalsa, Gene-Jack Wang, Joanna S. Fowler, Nora D. Volkow;  Neuropsychologia Vol 42. 2004
The Role of Early Experience in Shaping Behavioral and Brain Development and Its Implications for Social Policy; by Geraldine Dawson, Sharon B. Ashman and Leslie J. Carver; Development and Psychopathology Vol 12, 2000
Multiple Memory Systems: The Power of Interaction; by Robert J. McDonald, Bryan D. Devan, Nancy S. Hong; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2004
Mapping Brain Maturation; by Arthur W. Toga, Paul M. Thompson and Elizabeth R. Sowell; TRENDS in Neuroscience; 2006
Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships; National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; Working Paper #1; 2004
Children's Emotional Development is Built into the Architecture of Their Brains; National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, Working Paper # 2; 2004
Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain;  National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; Working Paper #3; 2005
Early Exposure to Toxic Substances Damages Brain Architecture; National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; Working Paper #4; 2006
SOS Stressed Out and Struggling: A work in Progress: The Adolescent and Young Adult Brain; A Briefing Paper, Young Minds Project, 2006
Neuroscience and Drug Addiction; Trevor W. Robbins, Rudolf N.Cardinal, Patricia DiCiano, Peter W. Halligan, Kim G. C. Hellemans, Jonathan L. C. Lee, Barry J. Everitt; Foresight Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs Project, Vol 1
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory
An fMRI Study of Episodic Memory: Retrieval of Object, Spatial, and Temporal Information; by Scott M. Hayes, Lee Ryan, David M. Schnyer, Lynn Nadel; havioral Neuroscience 2004, Vol. 118, No. 5
Intuition: A Social Cognitive Neuroscience Approach; by Matthew D. Lieberman; Psychological Bulletin; 2000, Vol. 126, No. 1
Time and the Brain: How Subjective Time Relates to Neural Time - Mini-Symposium; by David M. Eagleman, Peter U. Tse, Dean Buonomano, Peter Janssen, Anna Christina Nobre, Alex O. Holcombe;  The Journal of Neuroscience, November 9, 2005, Vol 25 No 45
Maltreatment and the Developing Child:  How Early Childhood Experience Shapes Child and Culture; by Bruce D. Perry;  Margaret McCain Lecture Series, 2005
Hippocampal Structural Asymmetry in Unsuccessful Psychopaths; by A. Raine, S. S. Ishikawa, E. Arce, T. Lencz, K. H. Knuth, S. Bihrle, L. LaCasse, P. Colletti; Biological Psychiatry, Vol. 55, 2004
Brain Potentials Implicate Temporal Lobe Abnormalities In Criminal Psychopaths; by  K. A. Kiehl, A. T. Bates, K. R. Laurens, R. D. Hare, P. F. Liddle; Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center
Early Maladaptive Schemas And Cognitive Distortions In Psychopathy And Narcissism;  by Cristian Torres, thesis in Psychology; Australian national University; 2002
Social Cognitive Neuroscience: Where Are We Heading?; by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Joel Winston and Uta Frith; Trends in Cognitive Sciences; Vol. 8 No. 5 May 2004
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Structure of the Moral Mind;  by Joshua Greene; in Innateness and the Structure of the Mind; Volume 1; Oxford University Press, 2005
Emotions and Psychopathology; by Ann M. Kring and Jo-Anne Bachorowski; Cognition And Emotion, Vol 13 (5) , 1999
Imitation and Moral Development; by Jesse Prinz; in Perspectives On Imitation: From Cognitive Neuroscience To Social Science, Volume 2: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Developmental Neurocircuitry of Motivation in Adolescence: A Critical Period of Addiction Vulnerability;  by R. A. Chambers, J. R. Taylor, M. N. Potenza;  American Journal of Psychiatry, 2003, Vol. 160
Analysis Of Variables Related To Social Interactions In Children With Agenesis Of The Corpus Callosum; by Donna Ross Doherty; Thesis - Master of Science (in Human Development); University of Maine, 2002
The Relationship Between Formal And Informal Reasoning;  by Eyvind Ohm; PhD Thesis, Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, 2005
The Role of Ventral Tegmental Dopamine Neurons and the Effects on Central  and Peripheral Dopamine Agonists on Fear Motivation as Measured by the Potentiated Acoustic Startle Reflex in Rats; by Thomas Borowski; Dissertation in Psychology, University of Saskatchewan; 1997
Also Appears under Animal Research
Prenatal and Perinatal Effects of Psychotropic Drugs on Neuro-cognitive Development in the Fetus;  by Eduard Bercovici; Journal of Developmental Disabilities, Vol 11 No 2
Also appears under Medications
A  Four-Dimensional Probabilistic Atlas of the Human Brain; by John Mazziotta et. al.; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA); Vol 8 No 5; 2001
Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence; World Health Organization; 2004
The Development of Behavior Before Birth; by W. P. Smotherman and S. R. Robinson; Developmental Psychology Vol 32, No 3, 1996
Cross Talk Between Phosphatidic Acid and Ceramide During Ethanol Induced Apoptosis in Astrocytes;  by Beate Schatter, Shenchu Jin, Konrad Löffelholz and Jochen Klein;  BMC Pharmacology; 2005
Neonatal Cerebral Ventricle Volume:  A Comparison of 3D Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging; by John H. Gilmore, Guido Gerig, Barbara Specter, MD, H. Cecil Charles, Joseph S. Wilber, Barbara S. Hertzberg, Mark A. Kliewer; Biological Psychiatry
Stress and the Developing Brain; National Institue of Mental Health; 2001
In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, A Report by the Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility.  (May 2000).
Glossary of TBI terms; HDI Brain Injury Glossary; Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Guide
Chairs, Houses and Visual Clutter:  Watching the Brain at Work; National Institute of Mental Health; 2001
Note: A link to the PDF file for viewing is found to the right
A Study of Cognitive Process and Mediated Compliance Training: Educational and Clinical Implications in the Treatment of Non-Compliance for Children with Developmental Disabilities; Zhu-Hui Li; PhD thesis education;  University of Toronto; 2000
Definitions for common neuroscience terms; Society for Neuroscience
Brain Briefings - a series of  2-page newsletters explaining how basic neuroscience discoveries lead to clinical applications;  Society for Neuroscience
Stress, the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Vulnerability to Drug Abuse; Nick Goeders PhD; Louisiana State University Medical Center
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