Do you think that you can apply the diagnosis of "Personality Disorder" in a person that has a low IQ?

From a practical point of view, could you apply the diagnosis of Personality Disorder in a low IQ level, only when the deficit is mild?

11 December 2018 1,701 1 View

Is our perceptual - cognitive cerebral system naturally prone to give a meaning to our interior and exterior perceptions?

This is rather a evidence ( do you agree? ) but I would like to have some opiniono and bibliography about this statement. Thanks.

10 November 2018 3,992 1 View

Maybe some big companies could build their products "obsolescence programmed" to sell more new products. What about developing an app to fight that ?

It could be an app where everyone could register by himself his product when it' s bought. Then everyone could register the moment when his product is not more working and it' s not more...

09 October 2018 4,889 3 View

Some references or explanations about similarities and differences between meso-limbic reward system and salience meso-limbic-cortical sistem?

I know that the question is very complex but both systems described in the literature are related to learning and motivation and have dopamine as neuro-mediator.

09 October 2018 4,937 0 View

Are there studies about the role of "aberrant salience" in the delusion formation, taking in account the variability of the delusional symptom?

In the last years many studies argued the role of the neurocognitive process called " abnormal salience" in the patogenesis of some psychotic symptom like delusion. It seems to me that the marked...

08 September 2018 1,405 0 View

What could be the adaptative reason of the " mesolimbic motivational system" activated both by "rewarding stimuli" and by "punishing stimuli" ?

As described in the paper " Incentive motivational salience and the human brain" by Jimmy Jensen and Henrik Walter? ( Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience 32 ( 2014 ) 141-147

08 September 2018 2,888 0 View

Can "placebo effect" share some basic feature with the " transfert" phoenomena described by S. Freud ?

At the beginning Freud disliked transferential reactions, considering them interferences, without a specific meaning ( like " suggestion" ). In order to distinguish the real therapeutic problems...

08 September 2018 2,813 7 View

Putting the display of the mobile on "reader mode" ( it reduce the amount of blue light and the "eyes strains" ) could be really an healty choice?

I would like to have some evidence in deciding the safety of a prolonged use of the mobile on the eyes ( of course there is always the microwawe questions).

08 September 2018 7,753 2 View

Could you recommend any books about Number Theory?

Beginner level books. High level books. Analytical Number Theory. Algebraic Number Theory. Combinatorical Number Theory. Books about partitions. Books about primes.

03 March 2021 7,174 5 View

What are the values needed for gabor filter's parameter for cifar10 data?

Hi, I implemented a code to gabor filter cifar10 data but the images after being filtered and stacked are not clear like the original images. I think the problem is in the way I am using the...

03 March 2021 6,317 1 View

Arena simulation - how do i model the following model in ARENA (see description) (new to ARENA)?

Hello, I'm fairly new to ARENA and I have the following problem: I have two queues in which, in each queue, a different order type arrives (both having an arrival rate of exponential 10). Order...

02 March 2021 2,431 3 View

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

Is there a powerful system for the security of the systems distributed on IoT systems?

02 March 2021 3,858 10 View

New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before?

Question to you and THEM, the New Journal, "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science" -- do you not know, and have you not seen, this done before? There appears to be a core problem for...

02 March 2021 3,024 2 View

How Relativistic effects is one reason for lanthanide contraction?

The Lanthanide contraction which is the decrease in ionic radii of the elements in the lanthanide series from atomic number 57, lanthanum, to 71, lutetium, is due to poor shielding of the 4f...

01 March 2021 2,272 4 View

What SPSS analysis should I run with one IV (with two levels) and two DVs?

Hi, I am trying to figure out which test would be most appropriate to run for the following question: Is there a difference in task blood pressure between smokers and non-smokers? There are two...

01 March 2021 8,235 2 View

Is it necessary to report effect size (ES) in statistics of biomedical research given that we already report p values routinely?

Pls share your thoughts

01 March 2021 7,330 4 View

Which reagent is best among 'Dimethylglyoxime" and "Dithiothreitol" for spectroscopic determination of Nickel ?

What I think is Dithiothreitol. As it is water-soluble and does not form a precipitate. But, the thing is it contains sulphur which is quite hazardous to aquatic animals.

01 March 2021 8,374 4 View

What is Flat Lens Antenna?

28 February 2021 5,433 3 View