Mindfulness and Neuroimaging
Fig. 27.1 (a) Total volume of the brain by morphometry comparing patients and normal controls of the same age and sex. (b) Volume measurements in parietal lobe comparing patients and…
PSYCHOLOGY
Attentional Capacity in Children: Intervention Programs for Its Development
Fig. 18.1 (a) Attentional focus test when the correct stimulus has been chosen. (b) Attentional focus test when the incorrect stimulus has been chosen If that new figure is different…
Translating the Glutamatergic Hypothesis of Schizophrenia Through Homeostatic Regulation of Brain Glycine
Fig. 25.1 The N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are heterotetramic complexes composed of four subunits, typically two NR1 subunits (with eight variants by alternative splicing of the GRIN1 gene) and two NR2…
Neuropsychological Disorders After Mild Traumatic Brain Injury or Concussion
Fig. 21.1 Histopathological changes in diffuse axonal injury: espheroids or retraction balls in injured axons in white matter. (a) hematoxylin eosin staining (×75). (b) immunohystochemistry for neurofilaments (68 KD). (c)…
The Ying and Yang of Pain: Protective Versus Damaging
Fig. 20.1 Diagrammatic representation of a classic pain pathway. In this simplified representation only the commonest of noxious stimuli have been included (chemically-triggered irritation, burning and mechanical damage) Remarkably, the…
Circadian Synchronization of Cognitive Functions
Environmental cues Entrainment pathways Pacemarker or master clock Output pathways Effectors Circadian rhythms Light/dark cycle Social and physical activities Feeding RHT (glutamate, PACAP) Pineal gland-SCN (melatonin) Intergeniculate leaflet-SCN (neuropeptide Y)…
New Insights in Glutamate-Mediated Mechanisms Underlying Benzodiazepines Dependence and Cocaine Vulnerability
Treatment % Sensitized % Nonsensitized VEH+COC 49.02 50.98 7-NI+COC 31.04* 68.96 ODQ+COC 27.78** 72.22 SILD+COC 67.44*** 32.56 Percentages of animals distributed in sensitized or nonsensitized groups in response to daily…
Social Representation and Imagery of Labor: Evaluation Process of the Psychosocial and Labor Vulnerability and Its Relation with Mental Health
Work accidents in Argentina Year Incidence rate (in thousands) Rate losses (in thousands) Lost labor duration (in days) Rate of deaths (per million) Days not worked 1996 84.3 1,701.9 20…
Adenosine in the Neurobiology of Schizophrenia: Potential Adenosine Receptor-Based Pharmacotherapy
Fig. 26.1 (a) The structure of adenosine 5′-triphosphate (ATP) and ATP derivatives. (b) Schematic representation of purine metabolism from ATP to uric acid. ATP is degraded to hypoxanthine, which can…
‘Two Hit’ Neurodevelopmental Mechanisms in Schizophrenia: Focus on Animal Models and the Role of BDNF
Fig. 24.1 Depiction of the ‘two hit’ hypothesis of schizophrenia: Early developmental disruptions such as gene deficits and/or environmental factors can increase the vulnerability of an individual to develop schizophrenia….
