Histotechnological breakthroughs in the late 1960s paved the way for anatomical
discoveries that led to the concepts of the ventral striatal-pallidal system and the extended …

Schizophrenia is a human brain disease with well-defined symptoms and a lifelong disease
course, but without a current biological explanation. Several observations implicate brain …

Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) data from two PET‐15O water schizophrenia studies
were analyzed using individually placed, magnetic resonance (MR)‐guided hippocampal …

The discovery and characterization of dopamine in the mammalian brain earned Dr. Arvid
Carlsson the Nobel Prize in 2000. Along with his many insights about dopamine …

What is psychiatry? Psychiatry is a continuously evolving concept that has, historically,
conveyed widely varying meanings for patients, physicians, and the general public. Joseph …

OBJECTIVE: Using functional brain imaging, the authors sought to replicate their earlier
finding of low metabolism in the middle frontal and inferior parietal cortices of schizophrenic …

Although the pathophysiology of schizophrenia remains unknown, there exist several
rational hypothetical approaches to examine which may in the end be informative about the …

Disturbances in attentional processes are a common feature of several psychiatric disorders
such as schizophrenia, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and Huntington's disease. The …

A review of research studies to date suggests that psychosis is a relatively rare, but serious,
complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Psychotic syndromes occur more frequently in …

Smokers attempting to quit should benefit from persisting in cognitive and behavioral co**
in order to achieve and maintain abstinence. Task persistence, which describes the act of …