Mental Processes - Drug effects
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Executive functioning, irritability, and alcohol-related aggression.

30 Aug 2009 The purpose of this investigation was to examine (a) whether irritability mediates the relation between executive functioning (EF) and alcohol-related aggression and (b) whether the alcohol-aggression relation is better explained by the interactive ... Read more...

The acute effect of low-dose alcohol on working memory during mental arithmetic: II. Changes of nonlinear and linear EEG-complexity in the theta band, heart rate and electrodermal activity.

May 2009 OBJECTIVE AND HYPOTHESIS: Nonlinear and linear methods of EEG-complexity analysis and autonomic measures were used to characterize processes accompanying performance in a mental arithmetic task challenged by low ("social") alcohol doses. It was ... Read more...

The acute effect of low-dose alcohol on working memory during mental arithmetic: I. Behavioral measures and EEG theta band spectral characteristics.

May 2009 OBJECTIVE AND HYPOTHESIS: Task-related EEG changes were studied during the performance of a mental arithmetic task, as influenced by low alcohol dosages with the presumption that even "social" drinking may have detrimental effect. METHODS: A mental ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Mental Processes - Drug effects'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Executive functioning, irritability, and alcohol-related aggression. 30 Aug 2009
• The placebo treatments in neurosciences: new insights from clinical and neuroimaging studies. 7 Jun 2009
• The acute effect of low-dose alcohol on working memory during mental arithmetic: II. Changes of nonlinear and linear EEG-complexity in the theta band, heart rate and electrodermal activity. May 2009
• The acute effect of low-dose alcohol on working memory during mental arithmetic: I. Behavioral measures and EEG theta band spectral characteristics. May 2009
• Prenatal cocaine exposure and prolonged focus attention. Poor infant information processing ability or precocious maturation of attentional systems? 15 Apr 2009
• Exercise and the brain: something to chew on. 4 Apr 2009
• Switching between abstract rules reflects disease severity but not dopaminergic status in Parkinson's disease. 6 Jan 2009
• Introduction: nutrients, toxicants, and neurobehavioral development. 30 Dec 2008
• White matter fractional anisotropy correlates with speed of processing and motor speed in young childhood cancer survivors. 27 Dec 2008
• When we enhance cognition with Adderall, do we sacrifice creativity? A preliminary study. 13 Nov 2008
• N-acetylaspartate (NAA) correlates inversely with cannabis use in a frontal language processing region of neocortex in MDMA (Ecstasy) polydrug users: a 3 T magnetic resonance spectroscopy study. 11 Nov 2008
• Acute effects of alcohol on inhibitory control and information processing in high and low sensation-seekers. 9 Nov 2008
• Consciousness and anesthesia. 5 Nov 2008
• Sex differences in cognitive estimation during sleep deprivation: effects of stimulant countermeasures. 30 Oct 2008
• Antiepileptic monotherapy significantly impairs normative scores on common tests of executive functions. 19 Oct 2008
• Changes in neuropsychological functioning following treatment with risperidone, olanzapine, and conventional antipsychotic medications. 29 Sep 2008
• The cumulative effect of coffee and a mental stress task on heart rate, blood pressure, and mental alertness is similar in caffeine-naïve and caffeine-habituated females. 30 Aug 2008
• COMT Val108/158Met polymorphism and the modulation of task-oriented behavior in children with ADHD. 23 Jun 2008
• Agmatine attenuates the disruptive effects of phencyclidine on prepulse inhibition. 9 Jun 2008
• Measuring neuropsychological change following breast cancer treatment: an analysis of statistical models. Jun 2008

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Technical information about 'Mental Processes'

Definition: Conceptual functions or thinking in all its forms.

Descriptor UI: D008606

Alternative terms: Mental Processes; Human Information Processing; Information Processing, Human;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.463;