Wednesday, December 29, 2010

SharpBrains update: December Update: Wishing You and Yours a Very Brain-Fit Decade



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Research bytes: Two new brain fitness/training studies in the elderly








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Friday, December 24, 2010

Test your Reaction Time

Reaction time is the time it takes to react to something. It can be considered as an index of your speed of processing: It shows how fast you can execute the mental operations needed by the task at hand.

Reaction Time is a basic measure used in many psychology studies. Participant are most often asked to push a button when done with the task, which can be as varied as detecting an object, memorizing a word, or identifying an emotion. As brain processing is quite fast, reaction times are usually measured in milliseconds (a thousandth (1/1000) of a second).

What is your average Reaction Time? Ready to try? Click here to start. Fun twist: Try before and after your Christmas dinner!

Merry Christmas from the SharpBrains Team






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Thursday, December 23, 2010

NIMH top 10 for 2010@NIMHgov, 12/23/10 8:05 PM

Mental Health NIMH (@NIMHgov)
12/23/10 8:05 PM
Director's Blog: NIMH's Top 10 Research Events and Advances of 2010 - http://go.usa.gov/rrR #nimhgov


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Research byte: Population clocks model of motor timing (Buonomano & Laje, 2010)







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Buonomano and Laje (2010) have presented an interesting description of a population clocks model to explain motor timing. The article is a hard read....and if it is too difficult, just do what I did....enjoy the lovely graphic figures. Seriously...this is an important contribution to understanding motor timing in motor performance. I will need to digest it more than once. Probably the most useful aspect of the article is the nice intro overview of the various theoretical models that have been advanced to explain the human brain clock.



The PDF article includes highlights and notes as per the IQs Reading blog feature.

The article will be added to the Key Research Articles section of this blog.


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Genetic cause of severe impulsivity?@PsyPost, 12/23/10 3:09 PM

PsyPost.org (@PsyPost)
12/23/10 3:09 PM
Genetic variant that can lead to severe impulsivity identified: A multinational research team led by scientists ... http://bit.ly/gjcyWq


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Saturday, December 18, 2010

NYTimes: Early Tests for Alzheimer’s Pose Diagnosis Dilemma

From The New York Times:

THE VANISHING MIND: Early Tests for Alzheimer's Pose Diagnosis Dilemma

Since there is no treatment, doctors wonder if they should tell people, years earlier, that they have the disease, or a good chance of getting it.

http://nyti.ms/eVAj27


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Thursday, December 16, 2010

iPost: PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Voodoo Correlations: Two Years Later, The Neurocritic In The Popular Press: Insights Give Hope for New Attack on Alzheimer's, The New York Times To Tell the Truth: Brain Scans Are Not Ready for the Courtroom,...
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iPost: Announcing the 2011 SharpBrains Summit: 23 Confirmed Speakers

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Research byte: Multiple-sensory integration and IQ

As per usual when I make a research byte/brief post, if anyone would like to read the original article, I can share via email---with the understanding that the article is provided in exchange for a brief guest post about it's contents. :) (contact me at iap@earthlink.net if interested). Also, if figure/images are included in the post, they can usually be made larger by clicking on the image.



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Enhanced cognitive control in fighter pilots

Neuropath Learning (@NeuropathLrng)
12/15/10 2:22 PM
Tests reveal that fighter pilots have greater cognitive control than the rest of us and brain scans reveal that... http://fb.me/DeKfE37r


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP) main office

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Have made some recent changes in the home office of IAP. Here is an updated picture. One can never have enough screens active--there are five in total..can you find the fifth? Also, one can not work without a good big cup of strong coffee in a mug from the Directors favorite coffee house (second office)---Caribou coffee.

This is the g-factor of IAP and IQ's Corner, the ICDP, and the Tic Toc Brain Talk blogs.





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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Cognitive Behaviour Theraphy (CBT) Across Cultures: Challenges and Possibilities

Cognitive Behaviour Theraphy (CBT)
Across Cultures: Challenges and Possibilities

7th March 2010 / London Conference
The Delivering Race Equality Programme (Department of Health 2005) highlighted the need to improve access to culturally appropriate counselling and psychological therapies, for individuals from Black and minority ethnic communities. The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative has improved access to counselling and psychological therapies for people suffering from anxiety and depression from a range of diverse backgrounds including those from BME communities. The third wave new CBT treatments include Mindfulness Based CBT and Meditation. The latter is prevalent in many cultures across the world and practiced directly or indirectly by several world religions. 

Having made progress, there is now a need to consider the extent to which counselling and psychological services are culturally appropriate and whether they need to be adapted.

In the case of CBT, there is robust evidence to show that CBT is an effective treatment for people suffering from anxiety and depression. The emphasis in CBT is on the client’s social context and that CBT therapists work collaboratively with clients to agree treatment options. However, CBT is based on Western concepts and illness models. The focus is on the individual and on treating the individual. For some people, this will be a challenge especially if they view themselves in the context of their immediate and wider family and / or in the context of their community. Some critics of CBT argue that by focusing on the individual, the larger familial, community and societal issues and problems are ignored or left unspoken and unaddressed.

Key considerations when delivering CBT with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds include:

    • The location of the service
    • Language and the use of interpreters or therapist who can speak the client’s mother tongue
    • Health beliefs and explanatory models of distress/mental disorder
    • The presenting problem/s or “idiom/s of distress”
    • Expectations about CBT

Some of the key questions which will be discussed during the one day event include:

    • Is it necessary to make adaptations when delivering CBT across cultures? If so, how?
    • Are traditionally routed treatments such as Mindfulness CBT and Meditation more appropriate when working with individuals from BME communities?
    • In instances where individuals have unique and "different" culture-led conceptions of health and ill health and the way this is managed, how is this reconciled?
    • What evidence base exists which demonstrates that CBT is affective with clients from different cultural backgrounds?


This one day conference will bring together clinicians who have experience of delivering CBT across cultures. Learning points and good practice will be shared. The challenges experienced and possible limitations will also discussed via anonymised case vignettes.

Programme of the day

9.00 - 9.30 Registration, Tea & Coffee
9.30 - 10.40 Introduction & Chair

CBT: Gaining from Diversity
David Kingdom
Professor of Mental Health Care Delivery at the University of Southampton and Honorary Consultant Adult Psychiatrist for the Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust
10.40 - 11.30 CBT Across Cultures: Challenges and Possibilities
Rathod Shanaya
Clinical Service Director, West Hampshire - Adult Mental Health Hampshire, Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
11.30 - 11.45 Tea & Coffee
11.45 - 12.30 Making CBT Culturally Responsive
Beena Rajkumar
Psychotherapy Specialist Registrar at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
12.30 - 1.00 Morning session Q&A
1.00 - 1.45 Lunch
1.45 - 2.35 Addressing Spirituality in CBT
Rob Waller
Consultant Psychiatrist in General Adult Psychiatry and Associate Director of Medical Education for NHS Lothian at St John’s Hospital
2.35 - 3.25 CBT with South Asian Muslims
Farooq Naeem
Consultant Psychiatrist & Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, Southampton University
3.25 - 3.40 Tea & Coffee
3.40 - 4.30 Employing a Culturally Representative IAPT Workforce in London
Tom Dodd & Robert Hardy 
London Regional Delivery Team for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, Working for Wellness
4.30 - 4.45 Afternoon Q&A
4.45 - 5.00 Plenary, Closure & Evaluation sheets
Who Should attend?

This conference will be relevant to all professionals in the field of Mental Health and Social Care, including those from Local Authorities and NHS trusts across the UK, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Counsellors, Early Intervention Teams, CPN’s, OT’s, Social Workers, Chaplains, Community Faith Leaders & Healers, Equality Leads, Community Development Workers, Service User Representatives, Charities, Third Sector, Educational Establishments, Academics and Policy makers.
Where?

The Resource Centre
356 Holloway Road
London
N7 6PA

Tel: +44 (0)20 7700 0100
http://www.theresourcecentre.org.uk
Conference Booking 

pdf Conference Brochure pdf Conference Booking Forn
Conference Contact

Ahmed Qureshi (conference co-ordinator) tel. 07540 356 526 
email us on: info@bmehealth.org or visit us on www.bmehealth.org

 


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Monday, December 13, 2010

iPost: PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

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Last Edition's Most Popular Article: Portraits of the Mind, The New York Times In The Popular Press: Dan Dennett- "Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain" (Video), The SItuationist Voodoo Correlations: Two Years Later, The Neurocritic Depressed about the antidepressant pipeline?...
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Institute for Applied Psychometrics (IAP) new logo

The votes have been counted (at the IAP logo survey at IQ's Corner blog).  Thank you to all who took the time to vote and send comments.  There was a clear winner.  It is reproduced below....with a slight change in the placement of the bell curve.  And yes...there is a deliberate slight skew to the normal curve...it is more visually eye-catching than a perfect normal curve.  Over the next month I will be working to integrate the new logo in all critical IAP-related blogs and web pages.

Many thanks to my great son-in-law, Anthony, who did all the design work.  He does great work.  It is personal XMAS present to me...and it will be treasured for a long time.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

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Neuroscience News (@NeuroscienceNew)
12/10/10 7:23 PM
World's First Basic Research Institute for Childhood Neurological Diseases Opens in Houston http://is.gd/iwGKP #neuroscience #houston


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Friday, December 10, 2010

iPost. Sharp Brains frontal lobe challenge

Alvaro Fernandez (@AlvaroF)
12/10/10 10:08 AM
A Brain Game to Tease your Frontal Skills: The frontal lobes of the brain (in blue here) have been compared to a... http://bit.ly/igOEO2


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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

iPost: Reading and brain plasticity

Alvaro Fernandez (@AlvaroF)
12/8/10 6:24 AM
Using Brain Plasticity to help Children with Learning Disabilities: Did you read The Brain That Changes Itself: ... http://bit.ly/eswXGH


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Monday, December 06, 2010

iPost: Free download of articles@psypress, 12/6/10 4:29 AM

Psychology Press (@psypress)
12/6/10 4:29 AM
Our 2 most downloaded articles from 'Cognitive Neuroscience' are free to view - both on #consciousness http://goo.gl/tNgnW


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Sunday, December 05, 2010

Interesting baby biological clock research

Neuroscience (@Neuro_science)
12/5/10 12:17 PM
Babies' biological clocks dramatically affected by birth light cycle - EurekAlert (press release) http://bit.ly/dY4arj


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NYTimes: Destination: LAPTOPISTAN

Being a regular laptop coffee house worker I found this article very interesting.

From The New York Times:

Destination: LAPTOPISTAN

The cafe is a place to go when working at home no longer works, where entrepreneurs and creative types can toil in solitude, together.

http://nyti.ms/f8GwdP


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Saturday, December 04, 2010

iPost: Journal of Neurology, Vol. 257, Issue 12 - New Issue Alert



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Review
The clinical spectrum of late-onset Alexander disease: a systematic literature review
Pietro Balbi, Silvana Salvini, Cira Fundarò, Giuseppe Frazzitta, Roberto Maestri, Dibo Mosah, Carla Uggetti & GianPietro Sechi
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Post infectious CNS disorders: towards a unified approach
Marc Gotkine, Peter G. E. Kennedy & Israel Steiner
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Right hemisphere dysfunction and emotional processing in ALS: an fMRI study
A. Palmieri, M. Naccarato, S. Abrahams, M. Bonato, C. D'Ascenzo, S. Balestreri, V. Cima, G. Querin, R. Dal Borgo, L. Barachino, C. Volpato, C. Semenza, E. Pegoraro, C. Angelini & G. Sorarù
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Original Communication
Impairment of sensory-motor integration in patients affected by RLS
Vincenzo Rizzo, I. Aricò, G. Liotta, L. Ricciardi, C. Mastroeni, F. Morgante, R. Allegra, R. Condurso, P. Girlanda, R. Silvestri & A. Quartarone
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Urodynamic analysis in multiple system atrophy: characterisation of detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia
Frédéric Bloch, Bertrand Pichon, Anne-Marie Bonnet, Jacques Pichon, Marie Vidailhet, Emmanuel Roze & Michel Perrigot
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The effect of dopamine replacement therapy on haptic sensitivity in Parkinson's disease
Kuan-yi Li, Kristen Pickett, Igor Nestrasil, Paul Tuite & Jürgen Konczak
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Late-onset Leber hereditary optic neuropathy mimicking Susac's syndrome
Stefano Zoccolella, Vittoria Petruzzella, Francesco Prascina, Lucia Artuso, Francesca Pacillo, Rosa Dell'Aglio, Carlo Avolio, Nicola Delle Noci, Marcella Attimonelli & Luigi Maria Specchio
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The new Alzheimer's criteria in a naturalistic series of patients with mild cognitive impairment
S. Galluzzi, C. Geroldi, R. Ghidoni, B. Paghera, G. Amicucci, M. Bonetti, O. Zanetti, M. Cotelli, M. Gennarelli & G. B. Frisoni
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Original Communication
Myasthenia gravis: a changing pattern of incidence
I. Casetta, E. Groppo, R. De Gennaro, E. Cesnik, L. Piccolo, S. Volpato & E. Granieri
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Original Communication
Glatiramer acetate exposure in pregnancy: preliminary safety and birth outcomes
Heidi J. Salminen, Helen Leggett & Mike Boggild
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Factors associated with long-term functional outcomes and psychological sequelae in Guillain–Barre syndrome
F. Khan, J. F. Pallant, L. Ng & A. Bhasker
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Original Communication
CHMP2B mutations are rare in French families with frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Mustapha Ghanim, Léna Guillot-Noel, Florence Pasquier, Ludmila Jornea, Vincent Deramecourt, Bruno Dubois, Isabelle Le Ber & Alexis Brice
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Involvement of the human ventrolateral thalamus in olfaction
S. Zobel, T. Hummel, J. Ilgner, A. Finkelmeyer, U. Habel, D. Timmann, J. B. Schulz & M. Kronenbuerger
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Cerebral infarction in acute anemia
Chung-Fen Tsai, Ping-Keung Yip, Chao-Ching Chen, Shin-Joe Yeh, Shih-Tze Chung & Jiann-Shing Jeng
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Spectrum of movement disorders in encephalitis
U. K. Misra & J. Kalita
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Original Communication
Functional outcome and quality of life 5 and 12.5 years after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
Paut Greebe, Gabriël J. E. Rinkel, Jeannette W. Hop, J. M. Anne Visser-Meily & Ale Algra
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Putaminal abnormality on 3-T magnetic resonance imaging in early parkinsonism-predominant multiple system atrophy
Jee-Young Lee, Ji Young Yun, Chae-Won Shin, Han-Joon Kim & Beom S. Jeon
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Original Communication
Writing errors as a result of frontal dysfunction in Japanese patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Sachiko Tsuji-Akimoto, Shinsuke Hamada, Ichiro Yabe, Itaru Tamura, Mika Otsuki, Syoji Kobashi & Hidenao Sasaki
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Original Communication
Cortical excitability in very mild Alzheimer's disease: a long-term follow-up study
J. Olazarán, J. Prieto, I. Cruz & A. Esteban
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Original Communication
Pain and autonomic dysfunction in patients with sarcoidosis and small fibre neuropathy
M. Bakkers, C. G. Faber, M. Drent, M. C. E. Hermans, S. I. van Nes, G. Lauria, M. De Baets & I. S. J. Merkies
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Letter to the Editors
Amyloid myopathy: a therapeutic trial for the rare and underdiagnosed myopathy with bortezomib
Kensuke Shiga, Reiko Mizutani, Reina Isayama, Chihiro Shimazaki, Takahiko Tokuda & Masanori Nakagawa
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Letter to the Editors
Unilateral cerebral hemisphere oedema as a peri-ictal phenomenon
Camille Carroll, Konrad Krolikowski, William Mukonoweshuro, Jonathan Jones & C. Oliver Hanemann
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Letter to the Editors
Multiple cerebral cavernous malformations and a novel CCM3 germline deletion in a German family
Chi-un Choe, Florence Riant, Christian Gerloff, Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve & Michael Orth
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Letter to the Editors
Severe encephalopathy and polyneuropathy induced by dichloroacetate
Dieta Brandsma, Thomas P. C. Dorlo, John H. Haanen, Jos H. Beijnen & Willem Boogerd
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Letter to the Editors
Salt-free diet and pregnancy-related central pontine myelinolysis: "To diet or not?"
Panos Ioannidis, George Balamoutsos & Dimitris Karacostas
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Letter to the Editors
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy related vasculitis: successful treatment with azathioprine
Sebastian Luppe, Samar Betmouni, Neil Scolding & Alastair Wilkins
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Letter to the Editors
Primary cerebral lymphomatoid granulomatosis as an immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in AIDS
Jaime Gonzalez-Valcarcel, Iñigo Corral, Carmen Quereda, Araceli Alonso-Canovas, Maria Aparicio Hernandez, Alicia de Felipe Mimbrera & Mercedes García Villanueva
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Letter to the Editors
Hanging leg syndrome following traumatic nerve injury
David P. Breen, David Thomas, Amit J. Shah, Taysir I. Bukhari & Paul Molyneux
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Pioneers in Neurology
Korbinian Brodmann (1868–1918)
Régis Olry
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Journal Club
News on multiple sclerosis: induction of immune tolerance, a biomarker for predicting disease activity, and CSF ferritin levels
Michael Strupp
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Medical Progress in the Journal of Neurology
Neuromuscular disorders and 2010: recent advances
Anna Sarkozy & Hanns Lochmüller
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Erratum
Erratum to: The status of olfactory function and the striatal dopaminergic system in drug-induced parkinsonism
Tommaso Bovi, Angelo Antonini, Sarah Ottaviani, Angela Antonioli, Maria Paola Cecchini, Vincenzo Di Francesco, Maria Antonietta Bassetto, Mauro Zamboni, Antonio Fiaschi, Giuseppe Moretto, Andrea Sbarbati, Francesco Osculati & Michele Tinazzi
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Communications of the European Neurological Society
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