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Clinical and neurocognitive changes with modafinil in obsessive–compulsive disorder : a case report
Dittrich, W.; Johansen, T.; Padhi, A.; Smith, I.E.; Chamberlain, S.R.; Fineberg, Naomi (2010)There are limited treatment options for co-occurring sleep disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). We postulated that Modafinil (Provigil) [2-{(diphenylmethyl) sulfinyl acetamide}] a non-amphetamine wakefulnes ... -
Cognition for science
Dittrich, W. (1994)In this review of Giere's Cognitive Models of Science 1992), underlying theoretical assumptions of cognitive models are examined from a psychological and philosophical viewpoint. In particular, the aim of the book to ... -
Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC-13) : A new 13-item scale for evaluating functional impairment associated with OCD
Dittrich, W.; Johansen, T.; Fineberg, Naomi (2010)The Cognitive Assessment Instrument of Obsessions and Compulsions (CAIOC) was designed as a novel instrument for clinicians to assess the main cognitive and executive impairments that are hypothesized to underpin the impact ... -
Cognitive performance and specific deficits in OCD symptom dimensions: I.Olfactory perception and impaired recognition of disgust
Dittrich, W.; Johansen, T.; Landro, N.I.; Fineberg, Naomi; Goder, Y.M. (2010)Objective: To investigate the ability of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in identifying pleasant and disgusting smells. Methods: Participants were 55 OCD patients and 80 healthy controls, also matched for ... -
Decomposing the corpus of neuropsychological tests
Henderson, L.; Dittrich, W. (1993)This commentary has had two primary concerns: We have attempted to address the difficulties and possibilities of using cognitive tests to measure the underlying biological basis for mental disorders. In particular, we have ... -
Discrimination of intentional and random motion paths by pigeons
Goto, K.; Lea, S.E.; Dittrich, W. (2002)Twelve pigeons (Columba livia) were trained on a go/no-go schedule to discriminate between two kinds of movement patterns of dots, which to human observers appear to be "intentional" and "non-intentional" movements. In ... -
Evidence for distinct contribution of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures
Atkinson, A.P.; Tunstall, M.L.; Dittrich, W. (2007)The importance of kinematics in emotion perception from body movement has been widely demonstrated. Evidence also suggests that the perception of biological motion relies to some extent on information about spatial and ... -
Older adults' recognition of bodily and auditory expressions of emotion
Ruffman, T.; Dittrich, W.; Sullivan, S. (2009)This study compared young and older adults’ ability to recognize bodily and auditory expressions of emotion and to match bodily and facial expressions to vocal expressions. Using emotion discrimination and matching techniques, ... -
The preparation and execution of saccadic eye and goal directed hand movements in patients with Parkinson's disease
Bekkering, H.; Neggers, S.F.W.; Walker, R.; Gleißner, B.; Dittrich, W.; Kennard, C. (2001)The oculomotor and manual motor systems were studied in a two-segment movement task in a group of patients with Parkinson's disease and in age matched normal controls. In order to avoid reflexive motor movements the selection ... -
Towards a more balanced understanding of motor control systems
Dittrich, W.; Hawken, M. (1996)Roberts's book provides a reasonably thorough guide to the physiology and biomechanics of balance, unfortunately the discussion of the neural and cognitive aspects of motor control is less satisfactory. We propose that ...