Silke Lissek

..These results indicate an important role for prefrontal cortex in processing a mismatch between a character's intention and another's expectations as required in complex social interactions...

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..We therefore examined ToM in subjects at risk of developing psychosis using an fMRI paradigm and compared brain activations with those of patients with manifest schizophrenia and healthy controls...

..These findings suggest abnormal activation of those brain areas involved in the evaluation of self-reference during mental state attribution...

..This study sought to compare neural activations in the ventral striatum (VS) and prefrontal regions during reward processing in homogenous ADHD subtype groups and healthy adults, using the MID task...

..These activation patterns resemble those found in at-risk populations, suggesting that cannabis use can affect the processing of social information similar to other risk factor constellations for psychosis...

..Altered reward and punishment processing could therefore reflect a motivational deficit that may contribute to the pathogenesis of Huntington's disease...

..These findings suggest that brief periods of reduced use of a limb have overt consequences and thus constitute a significant driving force of brain organization equivalent to enhanced use...

..Conceivably, changes of cortical excitability seem to constitute an additional important marker and mechanism underlying plastic reorganization...

..Therefore, NMDA receptors in the avian PFC participate in response selection requiring context processing rather than in response selection per se...

..We conclude that NMDA receptors in the pigeon NCL participate in response selection rather than stimulus maintenance in tasks requiring the processing of context information...