Behaviour alternation tasks

If a null result ensues, subsequent replication of the experiment is one way to feel more confident that the results are reliable. Alternatively, the animals may be trained in a conditioned odour preference task as described below. This would enable the investigator to further understand why the subjects did not respond in the habituation-dishabituation task. Videotaping the results should also become standard practice. As well as creating a permanent record that enables behavioural... 

In this form of therapy, a range of cognitive behavioural procedures are used in a specific sequence of tasks and experiments set within the context of a personalised version of cognitive-behavioural theory of the maintenance of bulimia nervosa. Treatment is out-patient based and involves 15-20 sessions over about five months. CBT has been shown to be effective in a number of controlled clinical trials (Jones et al. 1993 Hay and Bacaltchuk 2003). It is either significantly more effective or at least as effective as any alternative form of psychotherapy (Hay and Bacaltchuk 2003). However, for some patients it is unnecessarily intensive, while for others it is not sufficient. This approach of guided self-help can be delivered solely using written materials, without any direct human involvement at all. Several studies have established the potential efficacy of... 

The chapter presents a procedure for the evaluation and screening of alternative process flowsheet and control structure configurations in a rigorous, effective and systematic way. It utilises an effective decomposition of the process and control system design task, which in sequence allows the enhancement of the process controllability properties. The quality of the steady state behaviour in response to the deleterious effects of multiple simultaneous process disturbances and model parameter variations is an essential prerequisite for good economic... 

The authors suggest that increased behavioural reactivity may be the explanation for these differential effects. An alternative explanation is that the improvement on the two-way active avoidance task is due to damage to the hippocampus, or related structures, as this is known to improve performance on this task. This is thought to be because of deficits in spatial ability, so that the animal loses the sense of place, and does not remember, and therefore does not fear, the previously dangerous place. 

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