The first two topics are primarily concerned with the acquisition and recall of perceptual and procedural information. The third topic addresses the role of glutamate neurotransmission in psychosis, memory, and attention. Measuring the metabolic and neurochemical properties of the living human nervous system. Mental Illness, Patterns of Neuronal Activity. Symptom, Treatment, and Etiologic Observations.
Ketamine activates psychosis and alters limbic blood flow in schizophrenia.
Glutamate pharmacology and the treatment of schizophrenia - current status and future directions. Brain metabolism patterns are sensitive to attentional effort associated with a tone recognition task. Neural correlates of motor memory consolidation. Cerebral blood flow relationships associated with a difficult tone recognition task in trained normal volunteers. The prefrontal cortex and the ability to learn conflicting visuo-motor maps of reaching movements.