Problem Solving

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Physiological and neurocognitive correlates of adaptive behavior in preschool among children in Head Start.

This study examined physiological and neurocognitive correlates of teacherreported adaptive behavior in preschool among children in Head Start. Child physiology was assessed by cardiac vagal tone and was measured during a baseline period and during the ...
Clancy Blair, Rachel Peters (Dev Neuropsychol, 2003)
physiological-neurocognitive-correlates-adaptive-behavior-preschool.asp

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Function of hippocampus in "insight" of problem solving.

Since the work of Wolfgang Kohler, the process of "insight" in problem solving has been the subject of considerable investigation. Yet, the neural correlates of "insight" remain unknown. Theoretically, "insight" means the reorientation of ones thinking, ...
Jing Luo, Kazuhisa Niki (Hippocampus, 2003)
function-hippocampus-insight-problem-solving.asp

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Living in the new age: using collaborative digital technology to deliver health care improvement.

States that finding an effective method for helping teams to make better use of time is critical to the delivery of the current policy agenda within the UK National Health Service (NHS). Details the introduction of a communication technology into the ...
Maxine Conner, Phyllis Finnemore (Int J Health Care Qual Assur Inc Leadersh Health Serv, 2003)
living-new-age-collaborative-digital-technology-deliver-health-care.asp

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Mental rotation of perspective stimuli in a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus).

The time it takes humans to discriminate rotated objects from their mirror images increases linearly with the rotation angle. This phenomenon is probably due to an analogue mode of visual information processing during which an objects mental ...
K P Stich, G Dehnhardt, B Mauck (Brain Behav Evol, 2003)
mental-rotation-perspective-stimuli-california-sea-lion-zalophus.asp

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Reasoning and working memory: common and distinct neuronal processes.

The neuronal processes underlying reasoning and the related working memory subsystems were examined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Twelve volunteers solved relational reasoning problems which either supported a single (determinate) or ...
Christian C Ruff, Markus Knauff, Thomas Fangmeier, Joachim Spreer (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
reasoning-working-memory-common-distinct-neuronal-processes.asp

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Patient problems, advanced practice nurse (APN) interventions, time and contacts among five patient groups.

PURPOSE: To describe patient problems and APN interventions in each of five clinical trials and to establish links among patient problems, APN interventions, APN time and number of contacts, patient outcomes, and health care costs. DESIGN AND METHODS: ...
Dorothy Brooten, JoAnne M Youngblut, Janet Deatrick, Mary Naylor, Ruth York (J Nurs Scholarsh, 2003)
patient-problems-advanced-practice-nurse-apn-interventions-time.asp

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Frontal and parietal participation in problem solving in the Tower of London: fMRI and computational modeling of planning and high-level perception.

This study triangulates executive planning and visuo-spatial reasoning in the context of the Tower of London (TOL) task by using a variety of methodological approaches. These approaches include functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional ...
Sharlene D Newman, Patricia A Carpenter, Sashank Varma, Marcel Adam Just (Neuropsychologia, 2003)
frontal-parietal-participation-problem-solving-tower-london-fmri.asp

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Equipping couples with the tools to cope with predictable and unpredictable crisis events: the PREP Program.

The current article focuses on the application of crisis intervention principles to primary prevention programs for marital distress. The Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) is a universal, empirically-supported preventative ...
Carolyn M Freedman, Sabina M Low, Howard J Markman, Scott M Stanley (Int J Emerg Ment Health, 2002WINTER)
equipping-couples-tools-cope-predictable-unpredictable-crisis-events.asp

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Mental health promotion through resilience and resiliency education.

The article provides a brief review of the metatheory of resilience and resiliency, a description of a resiliency training program, and also a summary of results of a resiliency training program. Resilience in this paper is a self-righting force within ...
Glenn E Richardson, Phillip J Waite (Int J Emerg Ment Health, 2002WINTER)
mental-health-promotion-resilience-resiliency-education.asp

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Preventive mental health education for functioning adults: stress, coping and mental health courses at the University of Maryland.

Three fifteen-week courses at the University of Maryland are described. These courses explore diverse cognitive-behavioral skills that facilitate coping, are preventive in nature, and are suitable for learning by healthy individuals in educational ...
Glenn R Schiraldi, Stephen L Brown (Int J Emerg Ment Health, 2002WINTER)
preventive-mental-health-education-functioning-adults-stress-coping.asp