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Understanding the Policy Context for Supporting Students with Psychiatric Disabilities in Higher Education
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
Interest in postsecondary education for persons with psychiatric disabilities is high among consumers and advocates. However, the existence of program supports for higher educational goals is very uneven across U.S. states. ...
A Survey of Psychiatrists' Attitudes Toward Treatment Guidelines
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-04)
We developed a survey to look at psychiatrists' attitudes toward psychotropic prescribing guidelines, specifically the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP) algorithms. The 22-page survey was distributed to 24 psychiatrists ...
Natural Mentors and Adolescent Resiliency: A Study with Urban Youth
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-04)
Natural mentors may play an important role in the lives of adolescents. We interviewed 770 adolescents from a large Midwestern city. Fifty-two percent reported having a natural mentor. Those with natural mentors were less ...
Visual and tactile interhemispheric transfer compared with the method of Poffenberger
(Springer-Verlag, 2004-09)
In a simple manual reaction time task, reaction times are longer if the responding hand and visual field of the stimulus are contralateral than when the hand and field are ipsilateral. This small crossed vs. uncrossed ...
Production of a Heterozygous Mutant Cell Line by Homologous Recombination (Single Knockout)
(IRL PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2011-04)
Gene targeting by homologous recombination is a powerful and widely used technique for introduction of specific gene mutations (frequently a gene inactivation) in transgenic animals. The basic method detailed in this unit ...
Brief Report: Brief Syntactic Analysis in Asperger Syndrome: A Preliminary Study
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-02)
Do cortical plasticity mechanisms differ between males and females?
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-01-02)
Challenges of Implementing Depression Care Management in the Primary Care Setting
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
Empirical evidence shows that care management is an effective tool for improving depression treatment in primary care patients. However, several conceptual and practical issues have not been sufficiently addressed. This ...
Promoting Political Empowerment: Evaluation of an Intervention with University Students
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-12)
The aim of this research is to examine the effects of an intervention, focusing on the development of political empowerment, with university students. Undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of two conditions ...
Calcineurin activation contributes to noise-induced hearing loss
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-11-01)
Acoustic overstimulation increases Ca 2+ concentration in auditory hair cells. Because calcineurin is known to activate cell death pathways and is controlled by Ca 2+ and calmodulin, this study assessed the role of ...