Decision Making

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Cohesion of the primary social network and sustained service use before the first psychiatric hospitalization.

This study analyzed the relationship between social network dynamics and initial help-seeking behaviors. The primary social network was reconstructed for the period beginning with initial observation of unusual behavior and ending with first psychiatric ...
Normand Carpentier, Deena White (J Behav Health Serv Res, 200211)
cohesion-primary-social-network-sustained-service-first-psychiatric.asp

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Dermatologic surgery in geriatric patients: psychosocial considerations and perioperative decision-making.

BACKGROUND: Dermatologic surgery, both for cutaneous malignancies and for management of the visible signs of photodamage, is frequently performed on older persons. OBJECTIVE: To review common psychologic and physiologic limitations among the elderly that ...
Murad Alam, Robert A Norman, Leonard H Goldberg (Dermatol Surg, 200211)
dermatologic-surgery-geriatric-patients-psychosocial-considerations.asp

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Radically changing the research framework during a health geography study.

This paper focuses on the issue of how a research project can shift from a positivist to a nonpositivist framework. Specific attention is given to changes in research methods and philosophical paradigm that emerged while conducting a study on the ...
Leonard D Baer (Soc Sci Med, 200211)
radically-changing-research-framework-health-geography-study.asp

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The effect of specific test queries on source-monitoring event-related potentials.

Source-monitoring decision processes were manipulated during retrieval while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Words were either seen or heard at study, and memory for modality was measured on two separate yes-no source tests. Decision ...
P Andrew Leynes (Brain Cogn, 200211)
effect-specific-test-queries-source-monitoring-event-related.asp

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The development of outpatient Clinical Glidepaths.

For clinicians who are struggling with the complexities of medical decision-making, practice guidelines and evidence-based medicine (EBM) have become increasingly popular and have potential to positively influence the practice of medicine. Nevertheless, ...
Joseph H Flaherty, John E Morley, Donald J Murphy, Michael R Wasserman (J Am Geriatr Soc, 200211)
development-outpatient-clinical-glidepaths.asp

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Signal detection in conditions of everyday life traffic dilemmas.

This paper shows how the paradigm of signal detection could serve as a viable means for the analysis of drivers choices in conditions of everyday life traffic dilemmas. The participants were 28 drivers, most of them professional, who spend at least 6 h a ...
Tova Rosenbloom, Yuval Wolf (Accid Anal Prev, 200211)
signal-detection-conditions-everyday-life-traffic-dilemmas.asp

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The human prefrontal and parietal association cortices are involved in NO-GO performances: an event-related fMRI study.

One of the important roles of the prefrontal cortex is inhibition of movement. We applied an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technique to observe changes in fMRI signals of the entire brain during a GO/NO-GO task to identify ...
Jobu Watanabe, Motoaki Sugiura, Kazunori Sato, Yuko Sato, Yasuhiro Maeda, Yoshihiko Matsue, Hiroshi Fukuda, Ryuta Kawashima (Neuroimage, 200211)
human-prefrontal-parietal-association-cortices-involved-go.asp

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The neural basis for categorization in semantic memory.

We asked young adults to categorize written object descriptions into one of two categories, based on a rule or on overall similarity, while we monitored regional brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We found significantly ...
Murray Grossman, Edward E Smith, Phyllis Koenig, Guila Glosser, Chris DeVita, Peachie Moore, Corey McMillan (Neuroimage, 200211)
neural-basis-categorization-semantic-memory.asp

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Decisional capacity in theory and practice: legal process versus bumbling through.

The reform of guardianship law and practice remains an active topic of interest for service providers, policy makers, and advocates involved with older persons. Guardianship is a legal device designed to protect persons who lack the cognitive and ...
M B Kapp (Aging Ment Health, 200211)
decisional-capacity-theory-practice-legal-process-versus-bumbling.asp

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Dissociable contributions of prefrontal and parietal cortices to response selection.

The ability to select between possible responses to a given situation is central to human cognition. The goal of this study was to distinguish between brain areas representing candidate responses and areas selecting between competing response ...
Silvia A Bunge, Eliot Hazeltine, Michael D Scanlon, Allyson C Rosen, J D E Gabrieli (Neuroimage, 200211)
dissociable-contributions-prefrontal-parietal-cortices-response.asp