Browsing Τμήμα Ψυχολογίας / Department of Psychology by Subject "Brain"

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      Are Mental Contents Carried by Neural Vehicles? 

      Raftopoulos, Athanassios (Global Science & Technology Forum, 2017)
      Any discussion concerning representations in cognitive psychology and science assumes that mental representational contents are carried by brain representational vehicles. Recently Sedivy attacked the view that mental ...
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      Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism 

      Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lombardo,Michael V.; Suckling,John; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Chakrabarti,B.; Ecker,C.; Deoni,Sean C. L.; Craig, Michael C.; Murphy,Declan G. M.; Bullmore,Edward T.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2013)
      In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception. One obvious source of heterogeneity is biological sex. Since autism was first recognized, males with autism have disproportionately skewed research. Females ...
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      General and specific effects of early-life psychosocial adversities on adolescent grey matter volume 

      Walsh, Nicholas D.; Dalgleish, Tim; Lombardo,Michael V.; Dunn, Valerie J.; Van Harmelen, Anne-Laura; Ban, Maria; Goodyer, Ian M. (2014)
      Exposure to childhood adversities (CA) is associated with subsequent alterations in regional brain grey matter volume (GMV). Prior studies have focused mainly on severe neglect and maltreatment. The aim of this study was ...
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      Imaging sex/gender and autism in the brain: Etiological implications 

      Lai,Meng-Chuan; Lerch, Jason P.; Floris, Dorothea L.; Ruigrok,Amber N. V.; Pohl, A.; Lombardo,Michael V.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2017)
      The male preponderance in autism prevalence has brought together the disparate topics of sex/gender and autism research. Two directions of neuroimaging studies on the relationships between sex/gender and autism may inform ...
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      A meta-analysis of sex differences in human brain structure 

      Ruigrok, Amber N. V.; Salimi-Khorshidi, G.; Lai, Meng-Chuan; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Lombardo, Michael V.; Tait, Roger J.; Suckling, John (2014)
      The prevalence, age of onset, and symptomatology of many neuropsychiatric conditions differ between males and females. To understand the causes and consequences of sex differences it is important to establish where they ...
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      Puberty Predicts Approach But Not Avoidance on the Iowa Gambling Task in a Multinational Sample 

      Icenogle, G.; Steinberg, L.; Olino, T. M.; Shulman, E. P.; Chein, Jason; Alampay, L. P.; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Takash, H. M. S.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, L.; Chaudhary, N.; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Fanti, Kostas A.; Lansford, J. E.; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria (Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2016)
      According to the dual systems model of adolescent risk taking, sensation seeking and impulse control follow different developmental trajectories across adolescence and are governed by two different brain systems. The authors ...
    • Book  

      Η μηχανή της λογικής, η θέση της ψυχής: ένα φιλοσοφικό ταξίδι στον εγκέφαλο 

      Churchland, Paul M. (Εκδόσεις Γκοβόστη, 1999)