Browsing by Author "David H. Zald"
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Woodward, Neil David (2003-12-17)Department: PsychologyCognitive impairment represents a core feature of schizophrenia and a major impediment to social and vocational rehabilitation. First generation antipsychotic (FGA) medications do not elicit robust cognitive changes, but ...
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Essex, Brian George (2007-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis thesis describes a study on counterfactual thinking, which refers to the ability to imagine scenarios that are contrary to fact. I investigated the neural correlates of realistic and unrealistic past counterfactual ...
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Zhu, Joyce Yueyue (2015-11-20)Department: PsychologyCurrent theories of the relationship between personality and depression largely ignore conscientiousness and grit, leaving little conceptual framework for investigation. Among the handful of studies having investigated ...
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Godlove, David Christian (2013-09-20)Department: NeuroscienceI have studied the neurophysiological bases of saccade execution and evaluation within the oculomotor system of Macaca mulatta and Macaca radiata. To better understand saccade execution, I recorded the electromyogram (EMG) ...
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Heritage, Allan James (2017-06-12)Department: PsychologyPsychopathy is a pervasive and persistent personality disorder comprised of combination of a broad range of personality traits. These traits include low fear, diminished empathy, and a propensity to be manipulative, mixed ...
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Yin, Siyuan (2017-10-05)Department: PsychologyCurrent literature in moral judgments mainly focuses on hypothetical static and deterministic dilemmas, which may not be applicable to real world moral judgments and may not reveal the real underpinnings of moral judgments. ...
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Armstrong, Thomas Richard (2014-07-22)Department: PsychologyClassical learning theories of anxiety have been criticized for their failure to capture the full complexity of anxiety disorders. To address this limitation, contemporary learning theories have emerged, which acknowledge ...
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Kim, Joseph Un (2011-12-10)Department: PsychologyThe orbitofrontal cortex has been speculated to play an important role in the processes that allow emotional factors to influence decision-making. In recent neuroimaging studies, orbitofrontal activity patterns have been ...
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Armstrong, Thomas Richard (2009-06-18)Department: PsychologyThe present study examines the extent to which attentional biases in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are specific to disgust or fear cues, as well as the components of attention involved. Eye tracking ...
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Treadway, Michael Tilghman (2012-07-06)Department: PsychologyMajor Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a persistent, severe mental disorder with approximately 16% lifetime prevalence. Anhedonia has long been recognized as a core feature of the disorder. Described as a reduction in the ...
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Long, Daniel Adam (2005-08-10)Department: PsychologyAn ecological and multidisciplinary approach is used in predicting the impact of residential community identification (RCI) on distress and well-being. RCI is defined as a fusion of place identity to the residential street ...
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Heritage, Allan James (2012-06-27)Department: PsychologyThe response modulation hypothesis of psychopathy states that psychopaths' inability to adapt their behavior to changing circumstances results from a reduced ability to process peripheral cues in the midst of a dominant ...
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Coaster, Mariam (2012-03-31)Department: NeuroscienceThe midbrain dopamine system located within the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and substantia nigra (SN) contain dopaminergic (DA) neurons that are known to mediate various goal directed behaviors. Although research with ...
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Woodward, Neil David (2007-12-31)Department: PsychologySchizophrenia is a highly heritable disorder with a prominent genetic component. The search for susceptibility genes that confer liability for schizophrenia has been hampered by the heterogeneous nature of the illness and ...
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Essex, Brian George (2011-08-30)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation aims to investigate the neural mechanisms of intertemporal and risky economic choices and the relationships between choice preferences and impulsivity. Previous research has revealed a role for the ...
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Kim, Joseph Un (2016-11-15)Department: PsychologyPrevious neuroimaging studies have suggested ventral prefrontal cortex (PFC) involvement in emotion regulation. However, critical evidence demonstrating the ventral PFC’s direct influence on emotion regulation is still ...
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Aboud, Katherine Swett (2019-11-15)Department: NeuroscienceReading comprehension (RC) is a complex neural task that requires coordination across multiple brain systems. The majority of neurobiological research to date has focused on how “sounding out” words (i.e. decoding ability) ...