Perceptual Disorders - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation.

29 Sep 2009 People experiencing sensory deprivation often report perceptual disturbances such as hallucinations, especially over extended periods of time. However, there is little evidence concerning short-term sensory deprivation and whether its effects differ ... Read more...

Consecutive versus return motor perseveration during line cancellation task in hemispatial neglect.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Patients with neglect often repeatedly cancel the same targets, a form of motor perseveration (MP). There seems to be 2 types of MP, making uninterrupted multiple strokes for each target, consecutive MP (CMP) or return MP (RMP) where ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Perceptual Disorders - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The psychotomimetic effects of short-term sensory deprivation. 29 Sep 2009
• Successful treatment of HIV associated cerebral vasculopathy with HAART. 30 Jul 2009
• Consecutive versus return motor perseveration during line cancellation task in hemispatial neglect. 30 May 2009
• Emotional processing in PTSD: heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuli. 30 May 2009
• Anomalous subjective experience and psychosis risk in young depressed patients. 14 May 2009
• Implicit representation and explicit detection of features in patients with hemispatial neglect. 6 May 2009
• Prevalence, characteristics and a neurocognitive model of mirror-touch synaesthesia. May 2009
• Pseudoneglect for the bisection of mental number lines. 29 Apr 2009
• The effect of therapeutic horseback riding on social functioning in children with autism. 5 Apr 2009
• The amusic brain: in tune, out of key, and unaware. 29 Mar 2009
• [Spatial nature of mental number line in neglect patients] 8 Mar 2009
• Auditory processing in developmental dyslexia: an exploratory study of an auditory and visual matching training program with Swedish children with developmental dyslexia. 28 Feb 2009
• Critical evaluation of self-rated quality of life in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease--further evidence for the impact of anosognosia and global cognitive impairment. 27 Feb 2009
• Attention, automaticity, and awareness in synesthesia. 27 Feb 2009
• Cognitive visual perceptual deficits in patients with delirium. 20 Feb 2009
• Role of right posterior parietal cortex in maintaining attention to spatial locations over time. 19 Jan 2009
• [Neuropsychological profiles associated with the children's oral language disorders] 30 Dec 2008
• Visual perceptual consequences of stroke. 30 Dec 2008
• Are masking abnormalities in schizophrenia limited to backward masking? 30 Dec 2008
• Adolescence: a transient period of proprioceptive neglect in sensory integration of postural control. 30 Dec 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