Perceptual Disorders - Epidemiology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Emotional processing in PTSD: heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuli.

30 May 2009 This study evaluated evidence for 2 forms of emotional abnormality in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD): numbing and heightened negative emotionality. Forty-nine male veterans with PTSD and 75 without the disorder rated their emotional responses ... Read more...

Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia.

May 2009 In so-called 'mirror-touch synaesthesia', observing touch to another person induces a subjective tactile sensation on the synaesthete's own body. It has been suggested that this type of synaesthesia depends on increased activity in neural systems ... Read more...

A specific deficit in visuospatial simultaneous working memory in Down syndrome.

29 Apr 2009 BACKGROUND: Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals with Down syndrome (DS) present both central and verbal working memory deficits compared with controls matched for mental age, whereas evidence on visuospatial working memory (VSWM) has ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Perceptual Disorders - Epidemiology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Emotional processing in PTSD: heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuli. 30 May 2009
• Odor detection in schizophrenia: alternative explanations. 30 May 2009
• Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia. May 2009
• A specific deficit in visuospatial simultaneous working memory in Down syndrome. 29 Apr 2009
• Risk factors for falls in stroke patients during inpatient rehabilitation. 29 Apr 2009
• Frequency and clinical features of Lewy body dementia in Italian memory clinics. 30 Mar 2009
• Attention, automaticity, and awareness in synesthesia. 27 Feb 2009
• A parallel and distributed-processing model of joint attention, social cognition and autism. 30 Jan 2009
• Mathematical development in spina bifida. 30 Dec 2008
• [Neuropsychological profiles associated with the children's oral language disorders] 30 Dec 2008
• Subjective symptoms of schizophrenia in research and the clinic: the basic symptom concept. 30 Dec 2008
• Specific impairment of face-processing abilities in children with autism spectrum disorder using the Let's Face It! skills battery. 29 Nov 2008
• Neglect dyslexia: frequency, association with other hemispatial neglects, and lesion localization. 28 Nov 2008
• Comparing consequences of right and left unilateral neglect in a stroke rehabilitation population. 30 Oct 2008
• Time perception in children with ADHD: the effects of task modality and duration. 27 Sep 2008
• Temporal association of cannabis use with symptoms in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis. 19 Sep 2008
• The delirium experience: a review. 30 Aug 2008
• Comprehension of humor in children with nonverbal learning disabilities, reading disabilities, and without learning disabilities. 24 Aug 2008
• Neuropsychological outcome in very young hematopoietic SCT recipients in relation to pretransplant conditioning. 2 Aug 2008
• Perceptual metrics of individuals with autism provide evidence for disinhibition. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Perceptual Disorders'

Definition: Cognitive disorders characterized by an impaired ability to perceive the nature of objects or concepts through use of the sense organs. These include spatial neglect syndromes, where an individual does not attend to visual, auditory, or sensory stimuli presented from one side of the body.

Descriptor UI: D010468

Alternative terms: Perceptual Disorders; Perceptual Disorder; Somatosensory Discrimination Disorder; Discrimination Disorder, Somatosensory; Discrimination Disorders, Somatosensory; Somatosensory Discrimination Disorders; Sensory Neglect; Neglect, Sensory; Sensory Neglects; Hemisensory Neglect; Hemisensory Neglects; Neglect, Hemisensory; Neglects, Hemisensory; Hemispatial Neglect; Hemispatial Neglects; Neglect, Hemispatial;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C10.597.606.762; C23.888.592.604.764; F01.700.750;

History Note: 1969