Search Results - "Pavlovian journal of biological science"

On learned helplessness by Overmier, J Bruce

“…"Learned helplessness" and its Pavlovian analog, learned irrelevance, are phenomena thought integral to understanding depression, PTSD, psychosomatic…”
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The orienting response, and future directions of its development by Sokolov, E N

“…The orienting response (OR) is a specific behavioral act directed towards extraction of information from the environment. Head and eye movements represent only…”
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Seeking the source of emotional Stroop interference effects in PTSD: a study of P3s to traumatic words by Metzger, L J, Orr, S P, Lasko, N B, McNally, R J, Pitman, R K

“…We investigated the source of emotional Stroop interference effects in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by measuring reaction times and P3 latencies and…”
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Posttraumatic stress disorder: a sensitization reaction by Dykman, R A, Ackerman, P T, Newton, J E

“…This article discusses past research bearing on the question of the etiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). It argues that PTSD can be adequately…”
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Sustained attention in combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder by Golier, J, Yehuda, R, Cornblatt, B, Harvey, P, Gerber, D, Levengood, R

“…There is substantial evidence that PTSD patients have information processing abnormalities for stimuli that are highly relevant to the traumas they have…”
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Internalizing and externalizing characteristics of sexually and/or physically abused children by Dykman, R A, McPherson, B, Ackerman, P T, Newton, J E, Mooney, D M, Wherry, J, Chaffin, M

“…This study evaluates the behavioral consequences of childhood abuse (sexual, physical, or both), with particular focus on prevalence of posttraumatic stress…”
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Biochemical pathogenesis of post-traumatic epilepsy by Mori, A, Hiramatsu, M, Yokoi, I, Edamatsu, R

“…Head trauma is often followed by epilepsy and may be related to the breakdown of red blood cells and hemoglobin within the CNS. Injection of hemoglobin or iron…”
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An event-related brain potential investigation of PTSD and PTSD symptoms in abused children by McPherson, W B, Newton, J E, Ackerman, P, Oglesby, D M, Dykman, R A

“…We tested 186 children ranging in age from 6 years, 10 months to 13 years, 7 months; 174 suffered either physical and/or sexual abuse, and 12 were nonabused…”
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Stress ulcer and open-field behavior of spontaneously hypertensive, normotensive, and Wistar rats by Paré, W P

“…Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and the normotensive Wistar/Kyoto (WKY) rat were observed, along with Wistar rats (which represent the parent strain),…”
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Biochemistry and neurotoxicology of guanidino compounds. History and recent advances by Mori, A

“…Guanidino compounds are known to have important biological roles, such as the participation of arginine in ureagenesis, and of creatine in muscular…”
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A pitfall for the expectancy theory of human eyelid conditioning by Perruchet, P

“…Two simple eyeblink conditioning experiments with random intermittent reinforcement schedules were performed. In Experiment 1, subjects had to rate their…”
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The orienting response: stimulus factors and response measures by Barry, R J

“…This paper outlines some of the basic ideas of the orienting response (OR) that have developed from the classical writings of E.N. Sokolov, in particular the…”
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Long latency auditory evoked potentials: intensity, inter-stimulus interval, and habituation by Polich, J, Aung, M, Dalessio, D J

“…Experiment 1 elicited the P1, N1, P2, and N2 components of the long latency auditory evoked potential (AEP) using a 1000 Hz tone presented at 30, 50, or 70 dB…”
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Reaction time task as unconditional stimulus. Comparing aversive and nonaversive unconditional stimuli by Lipp, O V, Vaitl, D

“…Nonaversive unconditional stimuli (USs) are seldom used in human classic conditioning of autonomic responses. One major objection to their use is that they…”
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Current perspectives on posttraumatic stress disorder: from the clinic and the laboratory by Paige, S R

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The OR and significance by Maltzman, I

“…A brief review was conducted of past and current research and theory as well as future implications of the problem of significance and the OR. Research and…”
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Patterns of covert speech behavior and phonetic coding by McGuigan, F J, Dollins, A B

“…In previous research a discriminative relationship has been established between patterns of covert speech behavior and the phonemic system when processing…”
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Sex differences and bilateral electrodermal activity: a replication by Román, F, García-Sánchez, F A, Martínez-Selva, J M, Gómez-Amor, J, Carrillo, E

“…The present study was aimed at replicating the results of a previous work on sex differences and electrodermal asymmetry from our laboratory (Román, et al…”
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Orienting reaction, organizing for action, and emotional processes by Latash, L P

“…In the first half of the sixties, general notions were formulated concerning the functional role of the orienting reaction (OR) in adaptive activity, its…”
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Individual differences in the orienting response: nonresponding in nonclinical samples by O'Gorman, J G

“…The complete failure of the electrodermal orienting response (OR), although widely studied in clinical samples, has received little systematic attention in…”
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