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The irregular firing properties of thalamic head direction cells mediate turn-specific modulation of the directional tuning curve.
(2014)HEAD DIRECTION (HD) cells in anterior thalamus express a wide range of interspike intervals (ISIs) (Taube 2010). Given the importance of HD encoding for spatial navigation in the environment, it is crucial to understand ... -
Respiratory cycle entrainment of septal neurons mediates the fast coupling of sniffing rate and hippocampal theta rhythm.
(2014)Memory for odour information may result from temporal coupling between the olfactory and hippocampal systems. Respiration defines the frequency of olfactory perception, but how the respiratory rate affects hippocampal ... -
Decoding signal processing in thalamo-hippocampal circuitry: Implications for theories of memory and spatial processing
(2015)A major tool in understanding how information is processed in the brain is the analysis of neuronal output at each hierarchical level through which neurophysiological signals are propagated. Since the experimental brain ... -
Employment and vocational skills among individuals with autism spectrum disorder: predictors, impact, and interventions
(Springer, 2014)Much research has been devoted to early intervention for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with a lesser emphasis on research examining the outcomes for, or support of, these individuals as they reach ... -
Training Educational Staff in Functional Behavioral Assessment: A Systematic Review
(Springer, 2014)Interventions for challenging behavior are more likely to be effective when based on the results of a functional behavioral assessment. Research to date, suggests that staff members in educational settings may not have the ... -
A Systematic Review of the Treatment of Fears and Phobias Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(Springer, 2014)Research indicates that fears and phobias are significantly more prevalent, and emerge in response to a greater variety of stimuli, among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) than among their developmentally ... -
A systematic review of physiological reactivity to stimuli in autism.
(2014)Objective: The prevalence of abnormal behavioural responses to a variety of stimuli among individuals with autism has led researchers to examine whether physiological reactivity is typical in this population. The current ... -
Salivary cortisol levels and challenging behavior in children with autism spectrum disorder
(2015)A relationship between stress and challenging behavior in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has been theorized but infrequently examined empirically. The current study sought to examine the relationship between ... -
Growing Up in Ireland: Review of the literature pertaining to the second wave of data collection with the infant cohort at three years
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Linking time-on-task, spatial bias and hemispheric activation asymmetry: a neural correlate of rightward attention drift.
(2013)Biases of spatial attention may be moderated by non-spatial factors such as attentional load and time-on-task. Although these effects are thought to arise from depletion of right hemisphere processing resources, their ... -
Cognitive function is preserved in older adults with a reported history of childhood sexual abuse
(2013)Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with mood and cognitive deficits in children and young adults. Evidence suggests that the effects of early-life adversity persist throughout adulthood; however, the impact of CSA ... -
Metacognitive and online error awareness deficits after prefrontal cortex lesions
(2013)Awareness of deficits after brain injury represents a significant clinical and theoretical challenge, but relatively little is known about the neuroanatomical correlates of specific types of deficit awareness. We examined ... -
The effects of immunologic brainstem encephalopathy on cognitive function following awakening from a progressive autoimmune coma.
(2013)We describe a unique patient who experienced a progressive autoimmune coma from age 14 to 17. The patient awoke after treatment with immunosuppressant medication. Although alertness, verbalization, and mobilization markedly ... -
Changes in resting connectivity with age: A simultaneous electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation.
(2013)Resting fluctuations in the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal have attracted considerable interest for their sensitivity to pathological brain processes. However, these analyses are susceptible to confound by nonneural ... -
Methylphenidate improves some but not all measures of ATTENTION, as measured by the TEA-Ch in medication-naïve children with ADHD
(2013)The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) is a reliable neuropsychological assessment of attention control in children. Methylphenidate (MPH) is an effective treatment to improve attentional difficulties in ... -
Cerebellum and cognition: Evidence for the encoding of higher order rules
(2013)Converging anatomical and functional evidence suggests that the cerebellum processes both motor and nonmotor information originating from the primary motor cortex and prefrontal cortex, respectively. However, it has not ...