Neuropsychological Correlates of Affective Disorders

An examination of attention, arousal, and learning dysfunctions of hyperkinetic children.

“…Augmenting stimulus inputs serves to protect against the potentially detrimental effects of relative sensory deprivation. Reducing has been found in depressed patients, and augmenting has been reported in manic-depressives, high-stimulus seekers, and extraverts (Borge, Buchsbaum, Goodwin, Murphy, & Silverman, 1971;Buchsbaum & Pfefferbaum, 1971;Soskis & Shagass, 1974). The studies reviewed here suggest that this dimension might be useful for predicting the drug response of children with minimal brain dysfunction.…”

Individual differences in perceptual reactance: A review of the stimulus intensity modulation individual difference dimension.

“…Silverman (1972) states that it is the augmenters who should be sensation seekers. Buchsbaum, Goodwin, Murphy, and Borge (1971) cite results of an unpublished study in which AER augmentation-reduction was related to sensation seeking as measured by the sensation seeking scale, (Zuckerman, Kolin, Price, & Zoob, 1964) in a group of college students. Buchsbaum et.…”

Augmenting - Reducing Response to Auditory Evoked Potentials and its Relationship to the Prophylactic Effect of Lithium Salts

“…has been shown to shift the ASF towards a redueing response (2,4,8). Several investigators provided evidenee that an initial augmenting response eould prediet a favorable out· eome of aeute antimanie or antidepressive lithium treatment (1,2,4,5,8,15). Aeeording to investigations on possible relationships between visual ASF and biochemieal variables a high eentral serotonergie aetivity is found in redueers (7,12).…”