Behavior

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A design for the prospective evaluation of the efficacy and toxicity of antiepileptic drugs in adults. 
  • A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety. 
  • A method of quantification for the evaluation of antiepileptic drug therapy. 
  • A review on the management of epilepsy associated with hypothalamic hamartomas. 
  • Acceptance and change in the context of chronic pain. 
  • Acute changes in cerebral blood flow after smoking marijuana. 
  • Advances in understanding mechanisms of thalamic relays in cognition and behavior. 
  • Ageing increases reliance on sensorimotor prediction through structural and functional differences in frontostriatal circuits. 
  • Assessment of brain activity during memory encoding in a narcolepsy patient on and off modafinil using normative fMRI data. 
  • Assessment of pain in sedated and mechanically ventilated patients: an observational study. 
  • Associations between serum levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and environmental and behavioral factors in pregnant women. 
  • Asymptotic behavior: the concept of the operant. 
  • Behavior of patients with lung cancer: description and associations with oncologic and pain variables. 
  • Behavioral and psychosocial predictors of physical performance: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Behavioral predictors of mental health service utilization in childhood through adolescence. 
  • Behaviour and coronary artery disease: is this the missing link? 
  • Beyond expected utility: rethinking behavioral decision research. 
  • Biobehavioral pain research: a multi-institute assessment of cross-cutting issues and research needs. 
  • Biofeedback as a means to alter electromyographic activity in a total knee replacement patient. 
  • Breast cancer screening behaviors and attitudes in three racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Brief screening questionnaire for determining affected state in fragile X syndrome: a consensus recommendation. 
  • Can medial temporal lobe regions distinguish true from false? An event-related functional MRI study of veridical and illusory recognition memory. 
  • Cardiovascular disease in the elderly. Behavioral, cognitive and emotional considerations. 
  • Cardiovascular effects of mental arithmetic in Type A and Type B females. 
  • Caring for Alzheimer's. Treating behavior as a symptom of illness. 
  • Cervical screening and general physical examination behaviors of women exposed in utero to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information. 
  • Cognitive distortions, coping behavior, and depression in college students. 
  • Cognitive effects of transcranial direct current stimulation treatment in patients with major depressive disorder: An individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised, sham-controlled trials. 
  • Comparison of acute behavioral effects of sustained-release and immediate-release methylphenidate. 
  • Comprehensive lifestyle modification and blood pressure control: a review of the PREMIER trial. 
  • Control over stress, type A behavior pattern, and response to stress. 
  • Corollary discharge circuits in the primate brain. 
  • Cross-modal stimulus conflict: the behavioral effects of stimulus input timing in a visual-auditory Stroop task. 
  • Defining dysfunction: group means versus incidence analysis--a statement of consensus. 
  • Defining successful performance among pediatric residents. 
  • Delivering happiness: translating positive psychology intervention research for treating major and minor depressive disorders. 
  • Development and psychometric analysis of the PROMIS pain behavior item bank. 
  • Developmental psychobiology: prenatal, perinatal, and early postnatal aspects of behavioral development. 
  • Differences in types A and B behavior in response to acute myocardial infarction. 
  • Different responses to repeated applications of zingerone in behavioral studies, recordings from intact and cultured TG neurons, and from VR1 receptors. 
  • Donepezil for treatment of cognitive dysfunction in children with Down syndrome aged 10-17. 
  • Dopamine modulates the response of the human amygdala: a study in Parkinson's disease. 
  • Dopamine receptor sensitivity changes with chronic stimulants. 
  • Dynamic Trial-by-Trial Recoding of Task-Set Representations in the Frontoparietal Cortex Mediates Behavioral Flexibility. 
  • EMG of the human flexor pollicis longus muscle: implications for the evolution of hominid tool use. 
  • Effects of a procedure derived from the overcorrection principle on manipulated and nonmanipulated behaviors. 
  • Effects of a verbal warning and overcorrection on stereotyped and appropriate behaviors. 
  • Effects of antipsychotic withdrawal in elderly nursing home residents. 
  • Effects of healthy aging on hippocampal and rhinal memory functions: an event-related fMRI study. 
  • Effects of smoking and of induced abortion on pregnancy outcome. 
  • Effects of task incentive on cardiovascular response in type A and type B individuals. 
  • Emotional awareness and expression therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and education for fibromyalgia: a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Episodic memory and the self in a case of isolated retrograde amnesia. 
  • Evolution of visually guided behavior in artificial agents. 
  • Examining the inventory of interpersonal problems as a tool for conducting analogue studies of mechanisms underlying Borderline Personality Disorder. 
  • Experiential avoidance and well-being: a daily diary analysis. 
  • Exploring interpersonal behavior and team sensemaking during health information technology implementation. 
  • Extending the theory of planned behavior in the exercise domain: a comparison of social support and subjective norm. 
  • Fetal mechanisms in neurodevelopmental disorders. 
  • Freedom and purpose in biology. 
  • Frontal lobe personality syndromes. Ominous sequelae of head trauma. 
  • Genetic aspects of behavioral neurotoxicology. 
  • Genetic polymorphisms: a cornerstone of translational biobehavioral research. 
  • Grading the severity of chronic pain. 
  • Hand morphology, manipulation, and tool use in Neandertals and early modern humans of the Near East. 
  • How biological vision succeeds in the physical world. 
  • Human Matching Behavior in Social Networks: An Algorithmic Perspective 
  • Hyperthermic effects on behavior. 
  • IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age and later all-cause mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study. 
  • Is Toxoplasma Gondii Infection Related to Brain and Behavior Impairments in Humans? Evidence from a Population-Representative Birth Cohort. 
  • Looking at lithium: molecular moods and complex behaviour. 
  • Low doses of alcohol substantially decrease glucose metabolism in the human brain. 
  • Mammography pain and discomfort: a cognitive-behavioral perspective. 
  • Manipulating stored phonological input during verbal working memory. 
  • Metabolic and behavioral effects of a high-sucrose diet during weight loss. 
  • Methods for combining ancillary data in stochastic compartment models of cancer mortality: generalization of heterogeneity models. 
  • Multi-modal examination of psychological and interpersonal distinctions among MPI coping clusters: a preliminary study. 
  • Multisensory guidance of orienting behavior. 
  • Neural activities during Wisconsin Card Sorting Test--MEG observation. 
  • Neural connectivity patterns underlying symbolic number processing indicate mathematical achievement in children. 
  • Neuroanatomic overlap of working memory and spatial attention networks: a functional MRI comparison within subjects. 
  • Neurobehavioral changes with caudate lesions. 
  • Neurobehavioral functioning and survival following lung transplantation. 
  • Neuroimaging studies of serotonin gene polymorphisms: exploring the interplay of genes, brain, and behavior. 
  • Neuroimaging: technologies at the interface of genes, brain, and behavior. 
  • Neuropsychological effect of lead in occupationally exposed workers: a critical review. 
  • Nicotine preference increases after cigarette deprivation. 
  • Not noisy, just wrong: the role of suboptimal inference in behavioral variability. 
  • Nursing home residents: a multivariate analysis of their medical, behavioral, psychosocial, and service use characteristics. 
  • Nutrient tasting and signaling mechanisms in the gut. IV. There is more to taste than meets the tongue. 
  • On the character of an distance between states in a binary switching net. 
  • Osteoarthritic knee pain: a behavioral analysis. 
  • Oxidative Stress, Motor Abilities, and Behavioral Adjustment in Children Treated for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. 
  • Pain beliefs and the use of cognitive-behavioral coping strategies. 
  • Pain measurement in elders with chronic low back pain: traditional and alternative approaches. 
  • Perceiving patterns in random series: dynamic processing of sequence in prefrontal cortex. 
  • Performance-enhancing drugs. 
  • Physically, mentally disabled teens require special contraceptive care. 
  • Pregnancy Outcomes after Treatment for Cervical Cancer Precursor Lesions: An Observational Study. 
  • Pro-environmental behavior: rational choice meets moral motivation. 
  • Procrastination, deadlines, and performance: self-control by precommitment. 
  • Prolegomena to a model of continuity and change in behavioural development. 
  • Psychological aspects of persistent pain: current state of the science. 
  • Reading neural representations. 
  • Real-time monitoring of eye movements using infrared video-oculography during functional magnetic resonance imaging of the frontal eye fields. 
  • Relationship of disinhibition and aggression to blunted prolactin response to meta-chlorophenylpiperazine in cocaine-dependent patients. 
  • Relationship of prolactin response to meta-chlorophenylpiperazine with severity of drug use in cocaine dependence. 
  • Reward associations reduce behavioral interference by changing the temporal dynamics of conflict processing. 
  • Reward circuitry function in autism spectrum disorders. 
  • Routine versus catastrophic influences on the developing child. 
  • Scientists urge DHS to improve Bioterrorism Risk Assessment. 
  • Self-efficacy and pain behavior among subjects with fibromyalgia. 
  • Self-ratings of type A (coronary prone) adults: do type A's know they are type A's? 
  • Self-reports of pain intensity and direct observations of pain behavior: when are they correlated? 
  • Short-term behavioral effects of beta-adrenergic medications in men with mild hypertension. 
  • Significance of Epilepsy & behavior: my personal experience and views. 
  • Signing at the beginning makes ethics salient and decreases dishonest self-reports in comparison to signing at the end. 
  • Social Support for Diabetes Self-Management via eHealth Interventions. 
  • Social, behavioral, and genetic linkages from adolescence into adulthood. 
  • Subtypes of mania determined by grade of membership analysis. 
  • Testosterone-attenuated stereotype and hyperactivity induced by beta-phenylethylamine in pargyline-pretreated rats. 
  • The 'internal clocks' of circadian and interval timing. 
  • The Nursing Home Behavior Problem Scale. 
  • The anxiety disorders. 
  • The assessment of pain behavior: implications for applied psychophysiology and future research directions. 
  • The assessment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis. Validity of a behavioral observation method. 
  • The assessment of pain in rheumatoid arthritis: disease differentiation and temporal stability of a behavioral observation method. 
  • The behavioral aspects of safety. 
  • The biphasic effects of alcohol: comparisons of subjective and objective measures of stimulation, sedation, and physical activity. 
  • The brain adapts to dishonesty. 
  • The effect of caudal analgesia on emergence agitation in children after sevoflurane versus halothane anesthesia. 
  • The immune system and developmental programming of brain and behavior. 
  • The iowa structured psychiatric interview. Rationale, reliability, and validity. 
  • The neurobiology of individual differences in complex behavioral traits. 
  • The porous boundaries between explicit and implicit memory: behavioral and neural evidence. 
  • The resting frontal alpha asymmetry across the menstrual cycle: a magnetoencephalographic study. 
  • The role of behavior in diabetes care. 
  • The role of behavioral factors in white coat and sustained hypertension. 
  • The role of stimulus salience and attentional capture across the neural hierarchy in a stop-signal task. 
  • The role of the basal ganglia in habit formation. 
  • The use of timing behaviors in animals and humans to detect drug and/or toxicant effects. 
  • The voting gene. 
  • Theoretical integration in motivational science: System justification as one of many "autonomous motivational structures". 
  • Translating teamwork behaviours from aviation to healthcare: development of behavioural markers for neonatal resuscitation. 
  • Type A behavior and elevated physiological and neuroendocrine responses to cognitive tasks. 
  • Type A behavior pattern and coronary atherosclerosis. 
  • Unintended changes in cognition, mood, and behavior arising from cell-based interventions for neurological conditions: ethical challenges. 
  • Wanting, liking, and preference construction. 
  • What is health coaching anyway?: standards needed to enable rigorous research. 
  • Young children with autism show atypical brain responses to fearful versus neutral facial expressions of emotion. 
  • [Psychiatric and behavioral aspects of cardiovascular disease: epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment]. 
  • fMRI evidence for a cortical hierarchy of pitch pattern processing. 
  • fMRI tracks reductions in repetitive behaviors in autism: two case studies. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Dunn, Timothy, Postdoctoral Associate, Statistical Science
  • Groh, Jennifer M., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • McConnell, Eleanor Schildwachter, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, with tenure, School of Nursing
  • Nicolelis, Miguel Angelo L., Duke School of Medicine Professor in Neuroscience, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Schmehl, Meredith, Student, Neurobiology
  • Sommer, Marc A., W. H. Gardner, Jr. Associate Professor, Duke Science & Society
  • Svetkey, Laura Pat, Professor of Medicine, Medicine