Rethinking Innateness
A Connectionist Perspective on Development Jeffrey L. Elman, Elizabeth A. Bates, Mark H. Johnson, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, Domenico Parisi and Kim Plunkett
"Rethinking Innateness asks the question, "What does it really mean to say that a behavior is innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels, give rise to emergent forms and behaviors. These outcomes often may be highly constrained and universal, yet are not themselves directly contained in the genes in any domain-specific way.
One of the key contributions of Rethinking Innateness is a taxonomy of ways in which a behavior can be innate. These include constraints at the level of representation, architecture, and timing; typically, behaviors arise through the interaction of constraints at several of these levels.
The ideas are explored through dynamic models inspired by a new kind of "developmental connectionism," a marriage of connectionist models and developmental neurobiology, forming a new theoretical framework for the study of behavioral development. While relying heavily on the conceptual and computational tools provided by connectionism, Rethinking Innateness also identifies ways in which these tools need to be enriched by closer attention to biology. "
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8238

Just curious...

FDA approved a SSRI for ADHD treatment for children. But what is the difference among this new one and existing SSRIs? I will do a literature search...
http://www.strattera.com/index.html

"Differentiating AD/HD from Bipolar Disorder In Children"
http://www.childspirit.com/BDADD2001.PDF
It looks so useful and I wanted to update my website. But the server is down right now...
If you don't read PDF, find it on Google and click [View as HTML]

neurotransmitter.net
http://www.neurotransmitter.net/index.html
Another great link. It was massive amount of information on bipolar and schizophrenia. Mechanism of action and etiologies
.

"FDA recently approved a new medication for treating ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults. The new medication is called Strattera, and it is expected to be available in pharmacies early next year. I thus thought it would be useful to review a recently published study of this new drug, and discuss some issues that may be relevant when considering it as a possible treatment option. "

ATTENTION RESEARCH UPDATE http://www.helpforadd.com/2002/december.htm

Altropane™: A radio-imaging agent for the objective diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
http://www.bostonlifesciences.com/new2.htm

Study Raises Hopes for Adhd Medical Test, more about PET Scans
http://www.adders.org/research14.htm
It does not mean that the etiology of ADHD was presented completely.I will read this stuff a bit more carefully.

"So you see the pieces of the puzzle are all beginning to fit together, which is why I think this is absolutely fascinating," R Barkley.

Soren Kierkegaard...our deepest desires...

One of my classmates who likes existentialism stuff
reminded me of Kierkegaard...
How can I forget about him? I just needed to
brush-up details from a book,
The Sickness Unto Death.

This guy just keeps tracing the most important things,
in my opinion, such as how despair traps our souls...

Beautifully written....Oddly, he reminds me of Nietzsche..
not because both are a kind of existential philosophers,
but because of their poetic and lyrical sentences.
I really liked the Penguin Classics Paperback edition.
This is my first time to read him
in English because I have read it in Japanese when
I was back in Japan

Possible Treatment: (Focus on Positives!)

"...stimulates an interest in resilience, or the role of protective factors, and aan examination of those feature of either
the child or the environment that may alter the developmental pathway such that adjustment, rather than maladjustment."
(S.Calkins & N. Fox, 2002, Self-regulatory processes in early personality development: A multilevel approach to the study of childhood social
withdrawal and aggression, Development and Psychopathology, 14, 2002, 477-498.

The clinician designs and brings to bear a treatment package on the condition. (p256)
(R. Barkley, ADHD A Handbook fro Diagnosis and Treatment. 2nd Ed.)

Internal, cover forms of self-directed behavior...(p244-)
(R. Barkley, ADHD A Handbook fro Diagnosis and Treatment. 2nd Ed.)

Let's pretend that I am a classical behaviorist. I wounder if I can observe internal forms of behavior.

Rotisserie

"The Rotisserie implements an innovative approach to online discussion that encourages
measured, thoughtful discourse in a way that traditional threaded messaging systems cannot."

http://h2oproject.law.harvard.edu/rotisserie.html

"I'm having trouble talking."
"You can't bring yourself to say what you'd really like to say,
isn't that what you mean?"
"I don't know."

Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

Final papers, final papers...
Anything else I need to say?

"The Origins of Attachment Theory" by J. Bowlby (1988). The concept of attachment and a secure base are important for my clinical work.

"Thurstone and Guilford's Multiplicity of Mental Process"

From IQ R.I.P., M. Lezak, 1988

Can we emulate a psychological disease (if there is any) by a software?

Clinical Psychology FAQ/Clipping From The Net (Preparing for formal openning)
http://bbs7.otd.co.jp/779532/bbs_index

Dig into a small stuff for problem solving.

How can I express myself in academic papers?

Having written boring papers for years, I've decided to write stimulating papers as I entered my new school, MSPP. It is a formative struggle to keep the flavor my thoughts while utilizing styles of academic papers.

Images heal me.

Right now, I imagine a pot of beef stew. My viewpoint is zoomed onto a big chunk of melting potato. The potato has flavor. It is juicy.

This kind of images slowly give me a lift. I recover my warmth.

This is how my week starts.

Still thinking about a paper. I have some ideas, but I cannot integrate those in simple sentences.