Research Trends in Behavior and Executive Function (Neuroscience Research Progress)

✍ Scribed by Miao-Kun Sun (editor)

• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together interdisciplinary research in cognitive psychology, cognitive impairment and abnormalities, cognitive networks and neurofeedback, and neurophysiology. Covered are the latest developments, pinpointing directions for future research on cognitive sciences and theory. Essential reading for those working directly in the cognitive sciences or in related specialist areas, Research Trends in Behavior and Executive Function provides an instant overview of current thinking for both experts and newcomers to cognitive sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

RESEARCH TRENDS IN BEHAVIOR AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
RESEARCH TRENDS IN BEHAVIOR AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
CONTENTS
PREFACE
Chapter 1:
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN COMMON NEUROLOGIC CONDITIONS
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. MODEL OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
2.1 Shifting
2.2 Updating
2.3 Inhibition
3. FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
4. DEVELOPMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
5. MEASURING EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
6. MEASURING TASK SHIFTING
7. MEASURING UPDATING
8. MEASURING INHIBITION
9. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
10. COMPARISONS OF TYPES OF MEASUREMENT
10.1 Self-report vs. Neuropsychological Assessment
10.2 Cognitive vs. Clinical Assessments
11. NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS
11.1 Parkinson’s Disease
11.1.1. Cognitive Impairments
11.1.2. Shifting deficits
11.1.3. Updating deficits
11.1.4. Inhibition deficits
11.1.5 Impact
11.2 Huntington’s Disease
11.2.1. Cognitive Impairments
11.2.2. Shifting deficits
11.2.3. Updating deficits
11.2.4. Inhibition deficits
11.2.5. Impact
11.3 Multiple Sclerosis
11.3.1. Cognitive impairment
11.3.2. Shifting deficits
11.3.3. Updating deficits
11.3.4. Inhibition deficits
11.3.5. Impact
11.4. HIV
11.4.1. Cognitive impairments
11.4.2. Shifting deficits
11.4.3. Updating deficits
11.4.4. Inhibition deficits
11.4.5. Comorbidities
11.5 Spina Bifida
11.5.1. Cognitive impairment
11.5.2. Shifting deficits
11.5.3. Updating deficits
11.5.4. Inhibition deficits
11.5.5. Impact
11.6. Alzheimer’s Disease
11.6.1. Cognitive Impairments
11.6.2. Shifting deficits
11.6.3. Updating deficits
11.6.4. Inhibition deficits
11.6.5. Impact
12. BROAD IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION
12.1. Impact on the individual
12.2. Socially
12.3. Burden
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 2:
ROLE OF LONG-CHAIN OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS IN CORTICAL CIRCUIT MATURATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. LCN-3 FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
3. RODENT NEURODEVELOPMENT
4. NON-HUMAN PRIMATE NEURODEVELOPMENT
5. HUMAN NEURODEVELOPMENT
6. NEUROIMAGING
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
Chapter 3:
EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS AND THEIR ASSESSMENT IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. ASSESSMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS: TRADITIONAL MEASURES
3. NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURES
3.1. Performance Tasks Based on Instrumental Activities of Daily Life (IADL): An Attempt to Reach Ecological Validity
4. MEASURES BASED ON OBSERVATION
5. CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN BOTH TYPES OF MEASURES
6. NEW PERSPECTIVES IN THE ASSESSMENT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS: AULA NESPLORA
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 4:
THE BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP OF STRESS AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING
ABSTRACT
1. IMPACT OF STRESS ON EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES
2. IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION ON STRESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR STRESS RECOVERY
3. IMPACT OF STRESS ON EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING: POSITIVE CONSEQUENCES
4. IMPACT OF EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING ON STRESS: IMPLICATIONS FOR COPING
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 5:
NEURAL CORRELATES OF EMOTION REGULATION: AN FMRI STUDY OF BIG PICTURE REAPPRAISAL
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. METHODS
2.1. Sample
2.2. Conditions and Design
2.3. Imaging Assessment and fMRI Data Acquisition
2.3.1. fMRI Analysis
2.4. Procedure
3. RESULTS
3.1. Brain Imaging Findings
3.1.1. Big Picture Reappraisal versus Rumination
3.1.2. Big Picture Reappraisal versus Distraction
3.1.3. Big Picture Reappraisal versus Counting
3.2. Mood Data
3.2.1. ANCOVA Analyses
4. DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
Chapter 6:
COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING, DECISION MAKING AND PREFRONTAL CORTEX DAMAGE: CONSEQUENCES, REHABILITATION AND NEURAL PLASTICITY
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. TBI: DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION
3. NEURODEVELOPMENT
4. EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
5. PREFRONTAL CORTEX
6. TBI AND NEURODEVELOPMENT
7. TBI IN PREFRONTAL CORTEX
8. PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS RELATED TO TBI IN PREFRONTAL CORTEX
8.1. Mood Disorders: Depression, Mania, Apathy and Emotional Liability
8.2. Anxiety
8.3. Substance Abuse, Gambling and Other Compulsive Behavior
8.4. Psychosis
8.5. Conduct Disorder and Aggressive Behavior
9. TBI AND PROGNOSTIC PREDICTORS
10. NEUROPLASTICITY AFTER TBI
11. RECOVERY STRATEGIES
11.1. Neuropsychological Evaluation
11.2. Cognitive Rehabilitation
11.3. Family
11.4. School
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
REFERENCES
Chapter 7:
CEREBELLAR CONTRIBUTIONS TO IMPLICIT LEARNING AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
2. FUNCTIONAL NEUROANATOMY OF THE CEREBELLUM
3. NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OF THE CEREBELLUM
4. ROLE OF THE CEREBELLUM IN IMPLICIT LEARNING
5. ROLE OF THE CEREBELLUM IN EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
5.1. Working Memory
5.2. Verbal Fluency
5.3. Cognitive Flexibility
5.4. Inhibitory Control
5.5. Planning
5.6. Problem Solving and Decision Making
5.7. Emotion Regulation
6. THE CEREBELLUM IN NEUROLOGICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
7. CEREBELLAR TUMORS
8. AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
9. ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
10. TOURETTE’S SYNDROME
11. OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
12. MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
13. SCHIZOPHRENIA
14. CEREBELLAR STROKE
15. PARKINSON’S DISEASE
16. EMERGING TREATMENTS TARGETING THE CEREBELLUM
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
INDEX