Moving right along with our timely, fast-paced, cutting edge blog coverage from the CNS 2010 Annual Meeting [held last month], the first symposium urged the field to advance beyond the current piecemeal single-study approach to neuroimaging by moving Towards a cumulative science of human brain function.1 Building comprehensive, structured, and searchable databases (Van Essen, 2009) and using m
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May 19, 2010
Towards a Focal Consensus in Cognitive Neuroscience: Databases and Meta-Analyses
Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: human brain function, meta analyses, neuroscience databases, searchable databases, van essen — admin @ 2:00 pm
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December 7, 2009
Cognitive Impairment in Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: bipolar, bipolar patients, cognitive deficits, cognitive impairment, meta analyses — admin @ 5:00 pm
It is widely accepted that patients with schizophrenia have some degree of cognitive deficiency and that cognitive deficits are an inherent part of the disorder. Historically, there has been less focus on cognitive deficits in patients with bipolar disorder; however, numerous studies of cognition in patients with bipolar disorder, including several comprehensive meta-analyses of bipolar patients
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October 3, 2009
Do antidepressants cause mud flinging?
Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: freedom of information, freedom of information act, irving kirsch, meta analyses, prospect magazine — admin @ 8:00 pm
Prospect magazine has an interesting article covering psychologist Irving Kirsch's widely publicised meta-analyses that have questioned whether Prozac-style SSRI antidepressants are any better than placebo.Kirsch has become well known for requesting unpublished trial data via the US Freedom of Information Act and pooling it with the published evidence. The conclusion of his latest re-analysis was
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