Impulsivity: A view from the behavioral neuroscience and developmental psychology

Impulsivity has been linked to three main factors: performing without direct involvement of the frontal lobe functions, an increase in the speed of response, and the acquisition of immediate gratification. This behavioral inhibition deficit involves a variety of behaviors including aspects of hyperexcitability, behavioral disinhibition and higher order decision making. Although by tradition, the definition of this executive function has been conceptualized from a psychopathological view, currently, the wide variety of neuropsychological, developmental and animal models assessment techniques encourage us to establish dialogues that integrate the knowledge of these theoretical perspectives for the interpretation and understanding of impulsivity.

Review about neuropsychological processing of tonal attributes of music in the Western context

Many discussions about the music processing have occurred over the years. It is stated, on one hand, the existence of a single joint for grasping the music or any of its attributes by the Central Nervous System. Furthermore, it is claimed also the existence of multiple and diverse systems to understand each aspect of music. In general, model-independent set, studies focusing on the processing of sound components, specifically the musical tones, can significantly clarify the basic functioning of the auditory system and other higher brain functions. In this sense, one of the most prominent approaches in the study of sensory and perceptual processes of hearing, or changed unharmed, has been Neuroscience, which is interested in the interaction between the brain areas corresponding to different cognitive processes. Thus, the purpose of this study was to review the studies that dealt processing models of the attributes of tonal Western music, based on the conception that neuropsychological neural structures are interdependent sensory pathways.

Raymond D. Adams, gigante de la neurología norteamericana

El profesor Raymond D. Adams (1911-2010) fue una de las figuras más prominentes de la neurología norteamericana en el siglo XX. Realizó sus estudios de medicina en la Universidad de Duke. Posteriormente, inició especialización en psiquiatría, pero optó por dedicarse al estudio de la patología del sistema nervioso y a la neurología en el Hospital de Boston durante 10 años. Luego fue contratado por el Hospital General de Massachusetts, donde dirigió del Departamento de Neurología por más de 25 años. Fue profesor emérito de neuropatología de la Universidad de Harvard y obtuvo distinciones de otras universidades y sociedades científicas en los Estados Unidos y en otros países. Contribuyó de manera decisiva a la consolidación de la neurología en Norteamérica creando una escuela de fama mundial. Describió varios síndromes, aportó al desarrollo de otras ramas de la neurociencia, publicó múltiples artículos científicos y, desde 1977, junto con el Dr. Maurice Victor, el libro Principios de neurología, que se ha convertido en un clásico en la materia, traducido a varios idiomas. Dirigió un Departamento en donde se ha formado un muy destacado grupo de neurólogos de varias nacionalidades que dan brillo a la neurología mundial.

Consumer Neuroscience as a reserach issue, concepts and applications. A paradigmatic approach

Consumer neuroscience allows a fullest and objective understanding about desires andactions of consumers, turning itself in a fickle tool to the use of the companies and to improve their Marketing strategies. The use of the Neuroscientific methods to the analysis, description and comprehension of human behavior related to consume open a lot of unknown possibilities to discover. Neuromarketing or The consumer Neuroscience as is known too is the study of mental process been part of the consumer behavior and contexts concerning the marketing as well, apply and follow in the environment of the real life of human been. Its supported by the paradigms and the technological development of Neurosciences whose progress has made possible for the seekers to deep in knowledge abouthow the brain work. Physiological operations of mind are a product of a structural and functional ensemble including the brain, as organ, and mind, emotion and cognition, asfunctions. Mind events just can be understood in the middle of the interaction between the organism and his environment. Neuromarketing paradigm it’s still in his infancy and whatfor it’s full of research possibilities. Inside the consumer neuroscience the ethic building doesn’t collapse, the morality isn’t threaten, inside the normal individual Will it’s alwaysWill. The present paper looking for a place to the consumer neuroscience paradigm over the perspective of research open to the Marketing, from the technological advances and hermeneutical vision offer by Neuroscience; it’s propose some of several possibilities ofresearch and practice been explored actually. To give an example its offer one of methods of research as is the Evoked Potentials.