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Cognition (Latest Articles)
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Intentional inhibition: how the "veto-area" exerts control.
30 Aug 2009 
One important aspect of self-control is refraining voluntarily from already planned behavior, by a final intervention before commitment to action. Despite its crucial role in human existence, and clear social implications, this aspect of ...
rec_pub_19072994-intentional-inhibition-veto-area-exerts-control.htm
The social brain hypothesis and its implications for social evolution.
30 Aug 2009 The social brain hypothesis was proposed as an explanation for the fact that primates have unusually large brains for body size compared to all other vertebrates: Primates evolved large brains to manage their unusually complex social systems. ...
rec_pub_19575315-the-social-brain-hypothesis-implications-social-evolution.htm
30 Aug 2009 The notion of how malnutrition early in life affects ontogenesis has evolved considerably since the mid-1960s. Since then, there have been many studies on the effects of early malnutrition. Nutritional and metabolic exposure during critical periods ...
rec_pub_19801893-effects-early-malnutrition-mental-system-metabolic-syndrome-immunity.htm
30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is an important contributor to the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD), and abnormalities in the BDNF-signaling system may be implicated in the cognitive decline observed in BD patients. We ...
rec_pub_19689509-cognitive-function-serum-levels-brain-derived-neurotrophic-factor.htm
30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present paper reviews recent psychosocial research in the area of osteoarthritis pain. First, the review highlights studies of psychosocial factors that can influence osteoarthritis pain. Next, research testing the efficacy of ...
rec_pub_19617836-psychosocial-factors-pain-experience-osteoarthritis-patients-new.htm
The role of individual and familial protective factors in adolescents' diet control.
30 Aug 2009 This study examines a conceptual model linking individual cognitive-behavioral and familial influences to adolescents' poor diet control as a health-risk behavior. A cross-sectional survey collected data from students enrolled in the secondary ...
rec_pub_19687118-the-role-individual-familial-protective-factors-adolescents-diet.htm
Heartache of the state, enemy of the self: bipolar disorder and cultural change in urban China.
30 Aug 2009 
Past works in anthropology and psychology have described the Chinese orientation toward life as situation-centered with an external locus of control. This model has also been applied to the understanding of affect disorders in China--depressive ...
rec_pub_19526331-heartache-state-enemy-self-bipolar-disorder-cultural-change-urban.htm
Continuity in social cognition from infancy to childhood.
30 Aug 2009 Research examining the development of social cognition has largely been divided into two areas: infant perception of intentional agents, and preschoolers' understanding of others' mental states and beliefs (theory of mind). Many researchers have ...
rec_pub_19702767-continuity-social-cognition-infancy-childhood.htm
Studying affect among the Chinese: the circular way.
30 Aug 2009 Past research on Chinese emotion has been plagued by the lack of a measurement map for affective feelings. In this article, I developed a fine-grained circumplex model of affective feelings that is arbitrarily defined by 12 segments. I created ...
rec_pub_19672748-studying-affect-chinese-circular-way.htm
30 Aug 2009 Many postmenopausal women question whether to start or continue hormone therapy because of recent clinical trial negative results. However, evidence from other studies of postmenopausal women, and from studies in menopausal monkeys, indicate that ...
rec_pub_19475542-neuroprotective-effects-estrogen-therapy-cognitive-neurobiological.htm
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