Lottery Action, October 20 - November 2, 2003, Vol. 10, no. 21

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Lottery Action, July 12-25, 2004, Vol. 11, no. 13

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Community Action In Iowa Annual Report, 2000

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Community Action In Iowa Annual Report, 2001

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Lottery Action, July 26 - August 8, 2004, Vol. 11, no. 14

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Affirmative Action in Iowa, September 2003

This report is prepared pursuant to Iowa Code Section 19B.5. This Section required The Department of Administrative Services shall submit a report on the condition of affirmative action, diversity, and multicultural programs in state agencies covered by subsection 1 by September 30 of each year to the governor and the general assembly. Subsection 1 requires the head of each state agency to submit annual report of the affirmative action accomplishments of that agency to the Department of Administrative services.

Drugs, schizotypy and cognition: Cognitive attenuations seem more consistently associated with substance use than schizotypal symptoms

Psychosis is a debilitating disease, causing harm to the individual and society. Since early detection of the disease is associated with a more benign course, factors are warranted that enable the early detection of psychosis. In the present thesis we will be focusing on two potential risk factors, namely schizotypy and drug use. The schizotypy concept, originally developed by Meehl (1962), states that schizophrenia symptoms exist on a spectrum, with symptoms ranging from the most severe in patients with schizophrenia to the least affected individual in the general population. Along the schizophrenia spectrum cognitive impairments are commonly found, for instance reduced hemispheric asymmetry or frontal lobe functions. The second risk factor (drug use), affects similar cognitive functions as those attenuated along the schizophrenia spectrum, and drug use is elevated in schizophrenia and people scoring high on schizotypy. Therefore, we set out to investigate whether cognitive attenuations formerly allocated to schizotypal symptoms could have been influenced by elevated substance use in this population. To test this idea, we assessed various drugs (nicotine, cannabis, mephedrone, general substance dependence) and schizotypy symptoms (O-LIFE), and measured either hemispheric asymmetry of function (left hemisphere dominance for language, and right hemisphere dominance for facial processing) or functions largely relying on the frontal lobes (such as cognitive flexibility, working memory, verbal short-term memory, verbal learning and verbal fluency). Results of all studies suggest that it is mostly drugs, and not schizotypy in general that predict cognitive functioning. Therefore, cognitive attenuations subscribed to schizotypy dimensions are likely to have been affected by enhanced drug use. Future studies should extend the list of potential risk factors (e.g. depression and IQ) to acquire a comprehensive overview of the most reliable predictors of disadvantageous cognitive profiles.

Lottery Action, August 23-September 9, 2004, Vol. 11, no. 16

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Lottery Action, September 27-October 10, 2004, Vol. 11, no. 18

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Lottery Action, October 11-24, 2004, Vol. 11, no. 19

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