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The Immune System’s Moderating Response to Inflammation Relieves Autistic Behavior: Response to Peter Good
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Development of Cerebral Lateralization in Children
Lateral asymmetry prevails at levels of organization that range from subatomic particles to the human body and brain.
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Can Children with Autism Recover? If So, How?
Although Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are generally assumed to be lifelong, we review evidence that between 3% and 25% of children reportedly lose their ASD diagnosis and enter the normal range of cognitive...
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Etiologic Subtypes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Brain Imaging, Molecular Genetic and Environmental Factors and the Dopamine Hypothesis
Multiple theories of Attention-Deficit/Hyper- activity Disorder (ADHD) have been proposed, but one that has stood the test of time is the dopamine deficit theory. We review the narrow literature from recent br...
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The Role of Memory in Estimating Time: A Neuropsychological Analysis
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How is Consciousness Expressed in the Cerebral Activation Manifold?
I dispute that consciousness is generated by “core circuitry”in the forebrain, with predominance of motor areas, as Cotterillproposes in “Enchanted Looms”and other theorists do also. Ipropose instead that cons...
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Mechanisms and Development of Cerebral Lateralization in Children
The sequences of cognitive development to be considered in this discussion culminate in an endpoint of lateralization in the mature human nervous system that in its broad definition is no longer in dispute. In...
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Author responds to review of Vaccination, Social Violence, and Criminality
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Book review
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Genetics and Biochemistry in Attention Deficit Disorder
The heterogeneous nature of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) obscures its biological bases. One problem is that ADD subsumes a variety of patterns of inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Additionally, ...
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Self-paced learning in children with attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity
Attention deficit (ADDH) children self-paced the delivery of response pairs for paired-associate learning at about the rate previously shown to be conducive to relatively good learning in attention deficit. Th.....
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Reading
The skill of reading is uniquely placed in brain research. It is the most widely practiced skill that humans specifically learn (in contrast to spoken speech, which is acquired without deliberate instruction)....
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Handedness
Asymmetry in hand use in humans takes two forms: differential hand preference and differential dexterity between the hands. People classify themselves as right- or left-handed depending on their concept of whi...
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Mechanisms and Development of Hemisphere Specialization in Children
The sequences of cognitive development to be considered in this discussion culminate in an endpoint in the mature human nervous system that in its broad definition is no longer in dispute. In the right-handed ...
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Reading
The skill of reading is uniquely placed in brain research. It is the most widely practiced skill that humans specifically learn (in contrast to spoken Speech, which is acquired without deliberate instruction)....
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Reading
The skill of reading is uniquely placed in brain research. It is the most widely practiced skill that humans specifically learn (in contrast to spoken speech, which is acquired without deliberate instruction)....
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Cerebral-Brainstem Relations in Infantile Autism
In infantile autism, many higher mental functions of the cerebrum are grossly abnormal, and yet direct evidence of cerebral damage has proven elusive. I shall attempt to resolve this contradiction by arguing t...
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Specific Learning Disabilities and Attention-Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
The learning disabilities are developmentally determined delays in children’s acquisition of certain mental skills. They are selective—only a subset of mental skills is insufficiently developed; by definition,...
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Book reviews
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64 METHYLPHENIDATE EFFECTS ON ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATIVE LEARNING
Stimulant treatment of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) remains controversial, in part, because adverse medication responses to cognitive testing in the laboratory suggests that medication may impair learning....
