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Applying big data methods to understanding human behavior and health
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2018 , Article)
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The many facets of dopamine: Toward an integrative theory of the role of dopamine in managing the body's energy resources
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2018 , Article Review)
In neuroscience literature, dopamine is often considered as a pleasure chemical of the brain. Dopaminergic neurons respond to rewarding stimuli which include primary rewards like opioids or food, or more abstract forms of ...
Dynamic communications between GABA A switch, local connectivity, and synapses during cortical development: A computational study
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2018 , Article)
Several factors regulate cortical development, such as changes in local connectivity and the influences of dynamical synapses. In this study, we simulated various factors affecting the regulation of neural network activity ...
Tell about yourself to improve your autobiographical memory: A study of Korsakoff's syndrome
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) has been associated with a difficulty to retrieve specific autobiographical memories. We investigated whether this difficulty can be alleviated after the retrieval of statements describing ...
Not all drugs are created equal: impaired future thinking in opiate, but not alcohol, users
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Springer Verlag
, 2018 , Article)
Episodic future thinking refers to the ability to travel forward in time to pre-experience an event. Although future thinking has been intimately linked with self and identity, to our knowledge, no prior research has ...
Factors underlying risk taking in heroin-dependent individuals: Feedback processing and environmental contingencies
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Evidence suggests that factors influencing risk-taking include whether decisions are made based on emotions (affective systems) or cognitions (deliberative systems), the processing of feedback (e.g., deciding to attend a ...
Parcellating cognitive heterogeneity in early psychosis-spectrum illnesses: A cluster analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
Cognitive impairment is argued to represent a core feature of psychosis-spectrum illnesses. However, within-diagnosis heterogeneity is common, and risk factors for poor cognition remain to be examined after statistically ...