Bruno Preilowski

University of Tuebingen | EKU Tübingen · Experimental and Clinical Neuropsychology

Es gibt sicher vielfältige Unterschiede in der Beurteilung dessen, was Fragilität und Stabilität auf den verschiedenen Ebenen sozialer und biologischer Organisationsfonnen bedeuten. Dennoch wird man auch viele Gemeinsamkeiten finden, beispielsweise, dass erfolgreiche Organisationen zumeist sowohl fragil als auch stabil sind: also dadurch geprägt si...

Durante muchos años, un número en aumento de publicaciones se ha interesado en la dislexia del desarrollo (DD), su diagnóstico, sus posibles causas y varios enfoques de tratamiento. Entre estos reportes, más y más estudios de neuroimagen han surgido incluyendo investigaciones a través de IRMf en niños. El presente artículo revisa el actual estado d...

International gesehen, ergibt sich für die Entstehung der Neuropsychologie über die letzten 150 Jahre ein relativ geradliniger Verlauf, der im Wesentlichen durch die gleichzeitige Entwicklung der Neurowissenschaften und der experimentell-naturwissenschaftlichen Psychologie gefördert wurde. Die Ausformung des Berufsbildes eines klinischen Neuropsych...

Die Entwicklung der Gedächtnisforschung ist untrennbar mit dem Schicksal des Patienten HM verbunden. Anlässlich seines Todes wird an die Umstände erinnert, die 1953 bei ihm zu der beidseitigen Entfernung von Teilen des mediotemporalen Kortex führten; ferner wird die Bedeutung der nachfolgenden mehr als 50-jährigen Erforschung seiner postoperativen...

The development of memory research is inextricably bound to the fate of patient HM. On the occasion of his death, the circumstances are remembered, which lead to the bilateral removal of parts of his medio-temporal cortex in 1953. And the importance of the subsequent more than a half-century of research about his postoperative amnesic deficits as w...

At the level of clinical speech/language evaluation, the repetition type of conduction aphasia is characterized by repetition difficulties concomitant with reduced short-term memory capacities, in the presence of fluent spontaneous speech as well as unimpaired naming and reading abilities. It is still unsettled which dysfunctions of the pre-lexical...

We report in this article selected publications of experimental findings on healthy subjects and patients with short-term memory disturbances that support the assumption of separate active and passive component of phonological working memory. In reference to this, we discuss the Multiple Component Model of Baddeley (e.g. Baddeley, 2003), that predi...

German psychologists may have been first to establish a university curriculum in psychology with the expressed purpose to provide--after its successful completion--a certificate of professional qualification. This "Diplom-Prüfungsordnung" (Diploma Examination Regulation) was accepted nationwide in 1941. However, it took over fifty more years before...

We investigated the transduction operation and function of the mystacial vibrissae, using a comparative morphological analysis and behavioral experiments in rats. Vibrissal architecture was documented in a series of mammals to identify evolutionary conserved features of vibrissal organization. As a result of this analysis, we distinguish between a...

A 40-year-old male patient is presented who survived Marchiafava-Bignami disease and recovered sufficiently to be assessed neurologically and neuropsychologically in some detail. Besides dementia, lack of initiative, and psychomotor retardation here ascribed to extracallosal damage, he showed a number of symptoms of hemispheric disconnection such a...

The ultimate aim of comparative work on laterality is to contribute to an understanding of functional and structural lateral cerebral asymmetries in man and the principles underlying it. Off hand, nonhuman primates appear to be very suitable subjects for this type of research; our fellow primates are capable of learning and performing highly comple...

In search of a method to increase the validity of experimental data and simultaneously counteract the negative consequences of restricted laboratory environments, a pilot study was run with three rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), which were trained and tested with a laboratory-type task in the animal housing facility. The testing apparatus was made...

The afferent connections of the primate's temporopolar cortex were investigated with the retrograde horseradish peroxidase technique. Old World and New World monkeys received small unilateral injections of horseradish peroxidase. These labeled cells in a number of cortical, thalamic, and brainstem regions and in a few further telencephalic and dien...

A dispenser is described that can deliver a wide variety of foodstuffs of almost any consistency. Despite compact size, storage capacity is sufficient for several days of unattended operation. Computer-compatible logic allows flexible applications in animal housing facilities and experimental setups. Its application in delivering regular monkey cho...

For several years I have been concerned with a certain aspect of consciousness, i.e. the ability of self-reference by recognising self-attributions or photographs of oneself. In the following I shall present some results of attempts to test for this capacity in both hemispheres of ‘split-brain’ patients. In doing so, I shall include some observatio...

Skin resistance changes were used as a non-verbal test of self-recognition in the left and right hemispheres of split-brain patients. Self-recognition was evident in both hemispheres, refuting the claim of Eccles that the right-hemisphere of man is just a mute, automatically functioning system without liaison with a conscious self.

An approach to identify neuronal mechanisms underlying the phases of motor-skills acquisition is described, which combines methods of general experimental psychology and clinical neuropsychology. As an example, 2 experiments are reported on the acquisition of 2-hand coordination skills in completely commissurotomized patients and patients in whom o...

In recent years VOGEL and BOGEN, both neurosurgeons at the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles, have used surgical division of the neocommissures to treat a number of patients for intractable epilepsy. This measure was always a last effort to alleviate advancing, life-threatening convulsions and for most patients so far has brought remarkable im...

In search for possible functions mediated by anterior portions of the forebrain commissures in man, bilateral motor coordination was studied in two patients in whom the anterior commissure and the anterior two thirds of the corpus callosum had been sectioned to control for intractable epilepsy. Compared with normal controls and persons with a simil...

Die folgenden Hinweise sollen helfen, Fragen bezüglich der Herangehensweise, der Gestal- tung und des angemessenen Umfangs einer Diplomarbeit zu klären. Ziel ist nicht zu bevor- munden, sondern Antworten auf immer wieder gestellte Fragen zu geben. Grundlage ist, dass die Diplomarbeit einem empirischen Ansatz folgt. Bitte sprechen Sie daher die Frag...

Typewritten. Thesis (M.S.)--Tulane University of Louisiana, July 1968. Biography. Bibliography: leaf 23.