Abstract: Behavioral and PET/fMRI-data are presented to delineate the functional networks subserving alertness, sustained attention, and vigilance as different aspects of attention intensity. The data suggest that a mostly right-hemisphere frontal, ...
Neurobiological research on pedophilia – results and their consequences for the assessment of pedophilic offendersThe difficulty with the assessment of pedophilic offenders is in the valid assessment of a pedophilic interest. The current methods lack of ...
Women show higher sensitivity than men to emotional and social cues and are therefore better in showing empathy with others and in deciphering other’s intentions and mental states. These sex differences have been linked to hormonal levels. However, it ...
Abstract. Interpersonal and intrapersonal differences in brain responses to sexual stimuli have been linked with individuals’ testosterone levels. However, it remains unclear how hormones modulate brain ...
Abstract. In Germany, 7.5 Million individuals between 18 and 64 years are considered to be functionally illiterate (Grotlüschen & Riekmann, 2012). Functional illiterates have only rudimentary literacy skills ...
Survey of fMRI results regarding a phonological deficit in children and adults with dyslexia: Fundamental deficit or indication of compensation?Summary: Early neuroimaging studies exploring the neurobiological correlates of the phonological deficit in ...
Zusammenfassung: Obwohl unser Verständnis der Rolle neurobiologischer und kognitiver Mechanismen für die Entstehung und Aufrechterhaltung von Sucht ständig zunimmt, wird dieses Wissen noch wenig in die ärztliche oder psychotherapeutische Ausbildung und ...
Der Veränderung von psychischen Prozessen durch Psychotherapie muss eine Veränderung neuronaler Vorgänge im Gehirn zugrunde liegen. Einfache neurobiologische Modelle über die Wirkmechanismen der Kognitiven Verhaltenstherapie (KVT) postulierten, dass eine ...
Kognitive Subtypen von Entwicklungsdyslexie können Defizite vor allem in der Phonologie oder der visuell-räumlichen Aufmerksamkeit haben, die mit hirnfunktionellen Unterschieden zu Normallesern einhergehen. Die subtypenspezifische Aktivierungsänderung ...
Abstract. Neurofeedback allows participants to voluntarily control their own brain activity. Consequently, neurofeedback is a potential intervention tool in diverse clinical domains. Different brain signals can be ...
Neural correlates of the processing of threat-relevant stimuli in phobics and healthy subjectsAbstract. The increasing use of neuroimaging techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, resulted in numerous new findings, which extended the ...
Attentional dysfunction in childhood. Findings from functional neuroimagingAbstract. This review gives an overview of functional magnet resonance imaging in children with attentional dysfunction and its clinical implications. After a short introduction ...
Despite its hypothesized role in the etiology of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), little research has investigated neural correlates of episodic memory impairment in trauma survivors. This pilot study utilized a correlational design to investigate ...
Abstract.Background: Suicide is prevalent in schizophrenia (SZ), yet the neural system functions that confer suicide risk remain obscure. Circuits operated by the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are altered in SZ, ...
The spatial locations of brain activation related to self-paced repetitive movements, i.e., writing simple dots, were studied using event-related fMRI. Ten healthy right-handed subjects were scanned while performing the protocol with self-paced repetitive ...
Neuroimaging studies have indicated involvement of left prefrontal cortex and temporal areas in verbal memory processes. The current study used event-related functional neuroimaging to compare encoding of subsequently recalled and not recalled words in ...
The mismatch negativity (MMN) is an event-related brain potential elicited by the occurrence of a rare event (deviance) in an otherwise regular acoustic environment, and is assumed to reflect a preattentive mechanism for change detection. A widely adopted ...
Neuroimaging studies have shown that the face-related regions of the brain, including the amygdala and the fusiform gyrus, are activated when subjects viewed the faces of their own race as compared to those of other races. These regions have been regarded ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurogenetic disorder accompanied by structural alterations of the basal ganglia. In a recent study we investigated auditory processing in symptomatic and presymptomatic HD. Increased activation intensities were found for ...