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Seeing yourself in a positive light: Brain correlates of the self-positivity bias by Watson, L.A, Dritschel, B, Obonsawin, M.C, Jentzsch, I

“…Abstract Individuals are found to have better recall for self-referent information than other types of information. However, attribution research has shown…”
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Bias in beliefs about the self is associated with depressive but not anxious mood by Obonsawin, M.C, Carlisle, J, Patterson, C.J, Black, K, Davidson, K.M, Masson, N

“…Abstract Background Biases in beliefs about the self are associated with psychopathology and depressive and anxious mood, but it is not clear if both negative…”
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Changes in the relationship between self-reference and emotional valence as a function of dysphoria by Watson, L. A., Dritschel, B., Jentzsch, I., Obonsawin, M. C.

“…The self‐positivity bias is found to be an aspect of normal cognitive function. Changes in this bias are usually associated with changes in emotional states,…”
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A model of personality change after traumatic brain injury and the development of the Brain Injury Personality Scales by Obonsawin, M C, Jefferis, S, Lowe, R, Crawford, J R, Fernandes, J, Holland, L, Woldt, K, Worthington, E, Bowie, G

“…Objective:The aims of this study were to develop models of personality change after traumatic brain injury (TBI) based on information provided by the TBI…”
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Performance on tests of frontal lobe function reflect general intellectual ability by Obonsawin, M.C, Crawford, J.R, Page, J, Chalmers, P, Cochrane, R, Low, G

“…Recent studies have indicated that performance on tests of frontal lobe function are highly associated with general intellectual ability ( g). Some authors…”
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Frontal lobe impairment in schizophrenia: relationship to intellectual functioning by Crawford, J R, Obonsawin, M C, Bremner, M

“…Schizophrenic subjects (N = 48) and individually matched healthy controls were administered the Verbal Scale of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (VIQ) and…”
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Performance on the Modified Card Sorting Test by normal, healthy individuals: Relationship to general intellectual ability and demographic variables by Obonsawin, M. C., Crawford, J. R., Page, J., Chalmers, P., Low, G., Marsh, P.

“…Objectives. The aim of this study was to obtain normative data for the Modified Card Sorting Test (MCST), and to examine the relationship between performance…”
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Brain tumors in children and adolescents--III. Effects of radiation and hormone status on intelligence and on working, associative and serial-order memory by Dennis, M, Spiegler, B J, Obonsawin, M C, Maria, B L, Cowell, C, Hoffman, H J, Hendrick, E B, Humphreys, R P, Bailey, J D, Ehrlich, R M

“…The effects on intelligence and memory of two post-surgical conditions (radiation treatment, hormone deficiency and supplementation) were explored in 46…”
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Current status of the rat prolactin releasing factor by Shin, S H, Papas, S, Obonsawin, M C

“…The release of prolactin is governed by both inhibiting and releasing factors. Basal plasma concentration of prolactin is controlled mainly through inhibition…”
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PASAT and Components of WAIS-R Performance: Convergent and Discriminant Validity by Crawford, J. R., Obonsawin, M. C., Allan, K. M.

“…The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) (Gronwall, 1977), a full length Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) (Wechsler,1981), and the…”
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Bovine neurophysin-II stimulates prolactin release without involvement of dopaminergic prolactin-release inhibiting factor receptor in the estradiol-primed male rat by Shin, S H, Obonsawin, M C, Stirling, R

“…Neurophysins have been considered to be physiologically inert carrier proteins for the neurohypophysial hormones, oxytocin and vasopressin. We have observed…”
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Morphine can stimulate prolactin release independent of a dopaminergic mechanism by Shin, S H, Obonsawin, M C, Van Vugt, D A, Baby, N, Jhamandas, K

“…Prolactin release is controlled by prolactin-release inhibiting factor (PIF), possibly dopamine, and an unidentified putative hypothalamic prolactin-releasing…”
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Surgery depresses pulsatile growth hormone release in rats for up to 2 days by Obonsawin, M C, Shin, S H, Arrowsmith, J

“…In order to study the pulsatile release of rat growth hormone in a stress-free environment, many investigators obtain sequential blood samples from individual…”
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Pulsatile release of immunoreactive luteinizing hormone (irLH) in hypophysectomized male rats by SHIN, S. H, VINCENT, S. G, MALTMAN, C, OBONSAWIN, M. C, STOKREEF, J. C, REIFEL, C. W

“…The concentration of plasma luteinizing hormone (LH) was monitored every minute by radioimmunoassay in male rats that were either hypophysectomized, or…”
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Gamma-aminobutyric acid is not likely a physiological prolactin-inhibiting factor by Shin, S H, Obonsawin, M C, Bates, L

“…Basal plasma prolactin concentration is controlled by tonic inhibition. The major prolactin-inhibiting factor (PIF) is believed to be dopamine. Factors other…”
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Bovine 'neurophysin II' stimulates growth hormone release in the estradiol-primed male rat by Papas, S, Shin, S H, Obonsawin, M C

“…Basal plasma concentrations of growth hormone (GH) were monitored in both normal and estradiol-primed male rats by the collection of sequential blood samples…”
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Bovine neurophysin II has prolactin-releasing activity in the estradiol-primed male rat by Shin, S H, Obonsawin, M C

“…In the course of the search for the prolactin-releasing factor (PRF), we noticed that the posterior pituitary contained strong PRF activity and subsequently…”
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Non-mnestic cognitive function in the scopolamine model of Alzheimer's Disease by Obonsawin, Marc C., Robertson, Anne, Crawford, John R., Perera, Chris, Walker, Shona, Blackmore, Louise, Parker, Denis M., Besson, John A. O.

“…The contribution of cholinergic dysfunction to the non‐mnestic cognitive impairments associated with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT) was…”
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Biphasic changes in anterior pituitary Met-enkephalin concentration following reserpine treatment by George, S R, Kertesz, M

“…Met-enkephalin concentrations in the anterior pituitary gland were shown to decline dramatically within the first 24 h after reserpine treatment, with effects…”
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The effects of scopolamine on the recall of repeated words: a preliminary investigation by Obonsawin, Marc C., Goddard, Chris, Crawford, John R., Al-Mousawi, Adil, Evans, Noel T. S., Roeda, Dirk, MacLennan, Fiona, Parker, Denis M., Besson, John A. O.

“…We investigated the effects of scopolamine on the recall of repeated words. Subjects performed continuous recognition memory tasks both before and after the…”
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