cognitive neuroscience

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    • cognitive impairments are when an individual cannot tell the difference between an externally generated stimulus and an internally generated intention
    • language abnormalities such as poverty of speech are thought to originate from structural and functional abnormality in the brain - temporal prefrontal neural
    • kuperberg
      increased activity in the temporal cortex and inferior prefrontl cortex
      fMRI scans of 17 brains with schizophrenia
      loose associations produced may be due to hyperactivity in brain areas involved with language
    • firth
      a breakdown in neural circuit that links to the prefrontal cortex - septo hippocmpal system is responsible for delusions
    • aleman
      increases in prefrontal activity during difficult working tasks
      when tasks become too hard brains with schizophrenia showed reduced activity
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