Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The Rhesus monkey brain in stereotaxic coordinates

George Paxinos — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:20:20 PDT

From the Back Cover

The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive, detailed atlas of the monkey brain ever constructed. The first chapter, "Photographic and Diagrammatic Atlas of the Rhesus Monkey Brain," presents 151 plates illustrating the subcortex and parts of the cortex in high magnification, and 151 corresponding diagrams complementing each image. The second chapter, "Delineation of the Rhesus Monkey Cortex on the Basis of the Distribution of a Neurofilament Protein," consists of 64 fully labeled plates depicting an entire hemisphere. Jointly, the two chapters constitute the most serious morphological work ever undertaken on the monkey.

Key Features

* Provides the first comprehensive delineations of cortical and subcortical structures of any primate species

* Depicts the entire brain in 151 photographs paired with 151 detailed diagrams

* Alternates sections stained for Nissl substance with sections reacted for acetylcholinesterase (AChE)

* Contains 64 fully labeled photographs of brain sections reacted with an antibody to neurofilament protein (SMI32)

* Features modern concepts of brain organization and a stereotaxic grid

* Designed to become the standard reference for databasing and PET, MRI, and electrographic studies

Atlas of the human brain stem

George Paxinos — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:23:18 PDT

Work on the human brainstem has been impeded by the unavailability of a comprehensive diagrammatic and photographic atlas. In the authors' preliminary work on the morphology of the human brainstem (The Human Nervous System, 1990), Paxinos et al demonstrated that it is possible to use chemoarchitecture to establish a number of human homologs in structures known to exist in the rat, the most extensively studied species. Now, with the first detailed atlas on the human brainstem in more than forty years, the authors present an accurate, comprehensive, and convenient reference for students, researchers, and pathologists.

Key Features

* The first detailed atlas on the human brainstem in more than forty years

* Delineated as accurately as The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Second Edition (Paxinos/Watson, 1986), the most cited book in neuroscience

* Based on a single brain from a 59-year-old male with no medical history of neurological or psychiatric illness

* Represents all areas of the medulla, pons, and midbrain in the plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the brainstem

* Consists of 64 plates and 64 accompanying diagrams with an interplate distance of half a millimeter

* The photographs are of Nissl and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) stained sections at alternate levels

* Establishes systematically the human homologs to nuclei identified in the brainstem of the rat Reviewed by leading neuroanatomists

* An accurate and convenient guide for students, researchers, and pathologists

The Rhesus monkey brain : in stereotaxic coordinates

George Paxinos — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:18:09 PDT

Description

The Rhesus Monkey Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the most comprehensive and accurate atlas of the monkey brain currently available. The second edition of this classic book is a complete revision, featuring many improvements and upgrades. Constructed by the established leaders in neuroanatomical atlas development, the new edition will again be the indispensable resource for all scientists working on the primate nervous system.

Key Features

* 151 coronal diagrams and 151 accompanying photographic plates spaced at 120 um intervals; diagrams completely revised

* 60 photographic coronal plates of SMI immunoreactivity; delineations completely revised.

New in this edition

* DVD with all drawings in Adobe Acrobat (r) pdf format as well as eps files of photographic plates

* Inclusion in the DVD of 3D reconstructions of the diagrammatic atlas done by two major teams headed by Rolf Kotter and Louis Collins

* Linking of structure names from the atlas to the CoCoMac neuroinformatics database for online retrieval of additional information on partitioning schemes and connectivity

* Inclusion of MR images at approximately the same levels as the coronal diagrams

* This monkey brain atlas follows the same nomenclature and abbreviations conventions as the mouse, rat, chicken, and human brain atlases published under George Paxinos' leadership

Australians love to drive: what do drivers over 55 say about dementia and driving?

Victoria Traynor — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:58:13 PDT

Background: Driving requires cognitive skills that can be compromised by dementia and some drivers find it difficult accepting the need to consider retirement from driving. This workshop explores driving and dementia and provides opportunities to discuss this topic with consumers, carers, practitioners and researchers.

Bachelor of nursing: student experience of undertaking nursing assessment in clinical settings

Andrew Horne — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:36:38 PDT

The aim of this research was to:- •Describe student nurses experiences undertaking nursing assessments on clients in clinical practice. •Identify factors influencing the students’ ability to perform assessments. •Determine the types of nursing assessments undertaken by students and the frequency of these. •Identify student involvement in completing assessment documentation on nursing assessments.

Direct evidence for encoding of motion streaks in human visual cortex

Deborah M. Apthorp — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:32:58 PDT

Temporal integration in the visual system causes fast-moving objects to generate static, oriented traces (‘motion streaks’), which could be used to help judge direction of motion. While human psychophysics and single-unit studies in non-human primates are consistent with this hypothesis, direct neural evidence from the human cortex is still lacking. First, we provide psychophysical evidence that faster and slower motions are processed by distinct neural mechanisms: faster motion raised human perceptual thresholds for static orientations parallel to the direction of motion, whereas slower motion raised thresholds for orthogonal orientations. We then used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure brain activity while human observers viewed either fast (‘streaky’) or slow random dot stimuli moving in different directions, or corresponding static-oriented stimuli. We found that local spatial patterns of brain activity in early retinotopic visual cortex reliably distinguished between static orientations. Critically, a multivariate pattern classifier trained on brain activity evoked by these static stimuli could then successfully distinguish the direction of fast (‘streaky’) but not slow motion. Thus, signals encoding static-oriented streak information are present in human early visual cortex when viewing fast motion. These experiments show that motion streaks are present in the human visual system for faster motion.

Developing Korean Academy of Medical Sciences guideline for rating the impairment in mental and behavioural disorders; a comparative study of KNPA's new guidelines and AMA's 6th Guides

Gordon R. Davies — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:58:39 PDT

I refer to the paper by Ryu, Hong, Jung, Hwang, Jung, Jeong, Rah and Suh (2009) (1). The assessment of psychiatric disability is difficult and fraught with methodological problems and the review by Ryu and colleagues tends to perpetuate the use of methods of assessment which have no firm evidence base as well as ignoring some significant problems with the use of the American Medical Association Guides as well as the Psychiatric Impairment Rating Scale (PIRS).

The face inversion effect following pitch and yaw rotations: investigating the boundaries of holistic processing.

Simone K. Favelle — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:02:08 PDT

Upright faces are thought to be processed holistically. However, the range of views within which holistic processing occurs is unknown. Recent research by McKone (2008) suggests that holistic processing occurs for all yaw-rotated face views (i.e., full-face through to profile). Herewe examined whether holistic processing occurs for pitch, aswell as yaw, rotated face views. In this face recognition experiment: (i) participants made same/different judgments about two sequentially presented faces (either both upright or both inverted); (ii) the test face was pitch/yaw rotated by between 0° and 75° from the encoding face (always a full-face view). Our logic was as follows: if a particular pitch/yaw-rotated face view is being processed holistically when upright, then this processing should be disrupted by inversion. Consistent with previous research, significant face inversion effects (FIEs) were found for all yaw-rotated views. However, while FIEs were found for pitch rotations up to 45°, none were observed for 75° pitch rotations (rotated either above or below the full face). We conclude that holistic processing does not occur for all views of upright faces (e.g., not for uncommon pitch rotated views), only those that can be matched to a generic global representation of a face.

The case study in psychoanalytic education

Nigel I. Mackay — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:01:46 PST

The case study is widely used in psychoanalysis for presenting and illustrating clinical theory. It is also the standard means by which analysts-in-training demonstrate their ability both to manage cases and to convey their grasp of the case material. Most training institutes use the formal presentation of a case as a requirement for graduation. The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, New York, currently requires a single-case study as a final piece for the completion of certificate training (Meadow & Bernstein, 1999). In this paper we argue that the main purpose of the training case study is to illustrate theory systematically in clinical material and that treating the case study as an illustration addresses the main controversies over the legitimacy of the case study as a research method and, in particular, suits the needs of clinical training. In the light of this we set out a structure for the case study, giving its components and sequence and a rationale for this structure.

Calculating clinically significant change: Applications of the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI) Scale to evaluate client outcomes in private practice

Peter Kelly — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:45 PST

Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autistic features: EEG evidence for comorbid disorders

Adam Clarke — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:44 PST

Childhood EEG as a predictor of adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Adam Clarke — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:43 PST

District-level Estimates of Institutional Births in Ghana: Application of Small Area Estimation Technique Using Census and DHS Data

Fiifi Amoako Johnson — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:42 PST

The lived experience post-autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT): a phenomenological study

Moira Stephens — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:41 PST

Consumer participation in service evaluation and quality improvement: Key ingredients for a system to deliver national indicators

Karen Oakley — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:40 PST

Religious Perspectives on Abortion and a Secular Response

Moira Stephens — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:40 PST

Assessment, monitoring and emergency nursing care in blunt chest injury: A case study

Belinda Munroe — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:37 PST

Providing evidence for social marketing's effectiveness

Martine Stead — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:36 PST

Building brands with competitive analysis

Ross Gordon — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:36 PST

The critical role of social marketing

Ross Gordon — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:38:35 PST