Damaged Brains and the Death Penalty

2001-07-21 Thread Jeff Ricker
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/21/arts/dailyarts/21LEWI.html JUL 21, 2001 Damaged Brains and the Death Penalty By LAURA MANSNERUS You don't have to be a psychiatrist, Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis says, to know that something was terribly wrong with Ricky Ray Rector, who before his execution in

Misconceptions about abnormal psychology

2001-07-21 Thread Jeff Ricker
I was wondering if anyone had some examples of common student misconceptions about the field of abnormal psychology. I would like to address some of these misconceptions when I teach the course. Jeff -- Jeffry P. Ricker, Ph.D. Office Phone: (480) 423-6213 9000 E. Chaparral Rd.

Re: Misconceptions about abnormal psychology

2001-07-21 Thread Beth Benoit
Title: Re: Misconceptions about abnormal psychology The four that come immediately to my mind are about schizophrenia. First, the confusion of schizophrenia with multiple personality disorder, or more appropriately, DID. (Students are often quick to argue that schizophrenia means split brain

Re: Neural Representations of Trajectories

2001-07-21 Thread Ron Blue
- Original Message - From: Harry Erwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 4:36 PM Subject: Re: Neural Representations of Trajectories Ron Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you mean that a representation of an object moves in interacting neuro