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Thursday, January 08, 2009

An abductive perspective on clinical reasoning and case formulation.

30 Aug 2008 Clinical reasoning has traditionally been understood in terms of either hypothetico-deductive or Bayesian methods. However, clinical psychology requires an organizing framework that goes beyond the limits of these methods and characterizes the full ... Read more...

The all-too-flexible abductive method: ATOM's normative status.

30 Aug 2008 The author discusses the abductive theory of method (ATOM) by Brian Haig from a philosophical perspective, connecting his theory with a number of issues and trends in contemporary philosophy of science. It is argued that as it stands, the ... Read more...

Effects of estrous stage and time of day on prepulse inhibition in female rats.

23 Jun 2008 Prepulse inhibition (PPI) of the acoustic startle response is a measure of sensory motor gating, and is affected in various neuropsychiatric disorders. Although PPI has been used extensively to study both the neural effects of such conditions, as ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Behavioral Sciences'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An abductive perspective on clinical reasoning and case formulation. 30 Aug 2008
• The all-too-flexible abductive method: ATOM's normative status. 30 Aug 2008
• Effects of estrous stage and time of day on prepulse inhibition in female rats. 23 Jun 2008
• A new tracking system for the measurement of diel locomotor rhythms in the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L.). 18 Jun 2008
• Achieving behavioral control with millisecond resolution in a high-level programming environment. 15 Jun 2008
• Academic pharmacy administrators' perceptions of core requirements for entry into professional pharmacy programs. 13 Jun 2008
• Observing social gestures: an fMRI study. 13 May 2008
• Effect of an orally ingested mugwort and mushroom extract mixture on urine odor from aged mice. 5 May 2008
• Estimating the polychoric correlation from misclassified data. 29 Apr 2008
• An R package to compute commonality coefficients in the multiple regression case: an introduction to the package and a practical example. 29 Apr 2008
• An R package for single-case randomization tests. 29 Apr 2008
• A program for generating randomized simple and context-sensitive sequences. 29 Apr 2008
• gSRT-Soft: a generic software application and some methodological guidelines to investigate implicit learning through visual-motor sequential tasks. 29 Apr 2008
• Testing reciprocity in social interactions: a comparison between the directional consistency and skew-symmetry statistics. 29 Apr 2008
• [Review of the approach to exercise behavior modification from the viewpoint of preventive medicine] 29 Apr 2008
• Exploring barriers to teaching behavioural and social sciences in medical education. 28 Feb 2008
• A model for reintegrating couples and family therapy training in psychiatric residency programs. 28 Feb 2008
• Neurobehavioral Teratology Society membership list (as of 1/15/2008). 28 Feb 2008
• WolStat: a new statistics package for the behavioral and social sciences. 30 Jan 2008
• ML-DEs: a program for designing efficient multilevel studies. 30 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Behavioral Sciences'

Definition: Disciplines concerned with the study of human and animal behavior.

Descriptor UI: D001525

Alternative terms: Behavioral Sciences; Behavioral Science; Science, Behavioral; Sciences, Behavioral;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: F04.096;

History Note: 69

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