Handbook of Technology in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neurology : Theory, Research, and Practice

Our world is changing and changing quickly. One can be certain that the impact of technology will only become more pervasive in the decades to come and we cannot ignore how it will impact our profession. The juggernaut of technological development has and will continue to dramatically alter how we as health professionals in the neurosciences pursue our efforts in research, training and treatment. This book provides a rare and needed analysis of the history of technology in our field, the current state-of-the-art as well as a vision for the future. The contributors of this book critically examine how recent technological developments can contribute to advances in a range of topics including educational technology, assessment and treatment. These advances include a wide range of new approaches to communication and extend to advances in clinical care such as Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Transcranial Magnetic and Deep-brain stimulation. HANDBOOK OF TECHNOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY HANDBOOK OF TECHNOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY CONTENTS FOREWORD PREFACE PLAN FOR THIS HANDBOOK READERSHIP REFERENCES SECTION I. INTRODUCTION TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICES IN THE NEUROSCIENCES A BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND LABORATORY RESEARCH DATA ANALYSIS PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS: SCORING, INTERPRETATION, AND DIAGNOSIS TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER DOMAINS INTELLIGENCE TESTING PERSONALITY TESTING NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING PSYCHIATRIC TESTING NEUROLOGICAL TESTING CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES TECHNOLOGY IN PSYCHOTHERAPY: STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS BENEFITS OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED TREATMENTS CRITIQUES OF TECHNOLOGY-BASED THERAPY VIDEO TELECONFERENCING Strengths Limitations INTERNET THERAPY Strengths LimitationsLimitationsLimitations Chatting Strengths Limitations Multimedia Websites Strengths Limitations Virtual Reality Therapy Strengths Limitations HAND-HELD PORTABLE DEVICES, CD ROM AND DESKTOP COMPUTER Hand-Held Portable Devices Strengths Limitations CD Rom and Desktop Computers STRENGTHS LIMITATIONS CONCLUSION REFERENCES ECOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUES ECOLOGICAL AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ETHICAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES TELETHERAPY AND TELEMEDICINE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS CONCLUSION REFERENCES SECTION II. ADVANCES IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS RESPONSE SYSTEMS: 'CLICKER' USES AND BENEFITS IN AND OUT OF THE CLASSROOM HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OBJECTIVES: WHY INTRODUCE CLICKERS? CLINICAL POPULATIONS MOST EXPECTED TO BENEFIT RECENT APPLICATIONS: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES FUTURE APPLICATIONS TECHNICAL INFORMATION CONCLUSION REFERENCES ANIMATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA TUTORIALS MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH Definitions Theoretical Framework A NOTE ON ANIMATION MULTIMEDIA DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES Theoretically-Based Principles Best Practice Guidelines Instructional Design Guidelines User Interface Design Guidelines CAVEAT: MODERATORS IN MULTIMEDIA LEARNING LIMITATIONS IN MULTIMEDIA RESEARCH ANIMATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS REFERENCES THE PARTICIPATORY WEB HISTORICAL BACKGROUND THE PARTICIPATORY WEB CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PARTICIPATORY WEB Who is Participating? Opportunity for Scholarship CLINICAL POPULATIONS MOST EXPECTED TO BENEFIT RECENT APPLICATIONS Blogs Blog Concerns Wikis Other Participatory Web Technologies FUTURE APPLICATIONS TECHNICAL INFORMATION Participatory Web Technology Social Networks Facebook Profiles News Feed Pages Groups Blogs Blogger New Posts Profile Design Monetize Twitter RSS READERS Wikis PBworks CONCLUSION REFERENCES COMPUTER-BASED COGNITIVE STIMULATION PROGRAMS TO REMEDIATE AGE-RELATED COGNITIVE DECLINE: WHAT MAKES A PROGRAM EFFECTIVE? ABSTRACT MEASURING EFFICACY Approaches to Assessing Benefits Train to Task Neuropsychological Measures of Generalization Self-Report Measures of Generalization Real-World Measures of Generalization Long-Term Outcomes REVIEW OF STUDIES Useful Field of View (UFOV) Training BRAIN FITNESS PROGRAM (BFP) Other Training Programs SYNTHESIS OF COMMON ATTRIBUTES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO BRAIN PLASTICITY Speeded Adaptive Intensive DISCUSSION CONCLUSION REFERENCES HARNESSING THE ACTIVE MIND:GAME-BASED LEARNING FOR DEVELOPING NAVIGATION SKILLS IN THE BLIND SPATIAL NAVIGATION IN THE BLIND NAVIGATING USING AUDIO BASED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS THE NEUROSCIENCE OF SPATIAL NAVIGATION THE ROLE OF THE VISUAL CORTEX IN THE BLIND LINKING VISUAL CORTEX TO BRAIN NETWORKS ASSESSING NEURONAVIGATION IN THE SIGHTED AND BLIND OPEN QUESTIONS REFERENCES THE USES OF TECHNOLOGY FOR AND WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS ASD: DIAGNOSTIC CHALLENGES IN THE MIDST OF A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS USE OF TELE-HEALTH IN ASD ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION USE OF UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING FOR BEHAVIOR IMAGING IN ASD USE OF TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT COMMUNICATION, PARTICIPATION AND LEARNING OF CHILDREN WITH ASD TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY USED FOR AND WITH CHILDREN WITH ASD CHALLENGES AND PROMISES OF TECHNOLOGY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE ACKNOWLEDGMENT REFERENCES TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY: FROM THE PROBLEM BOX TO THE ‘RUMBAUGHX’ CAVEATS TECHNOLOGICAL MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY PROBLEM BOX DISCRIMINATION BOX OBSTRUCTION BOX AND SHUTTLE BOX SKINNER BOX LEXIGRAM KEYBOARD Rumbaughx CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY IN COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES SECTION III. ADVANCES IN ASSESSMENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION AND HEALTHCARE CONTEXT OF USE OBJECTIVES RECENT APPLICATIONS eReaders Tablets Smartphones FUTURE APPLICATIONS Just in Time Reference Serious Games Gesture and Motion-Based Computing Augmented Reality Applications Wearable Computing TECHNICAL INFORMATION Pros and Cons DESIGN GUIDELINES CONCLUSION REFERENCES NEUROCOGNITIVE TECHNOLOGY: INFORMATION PROCESSING AND EVENT RELATED POTENTIALS A BIT OF ANCIENT HISTORY BIOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF EEG AND ERPS RECORDING AND ANALYZING EEG/ERPS WHY USE ERPS? WHO BENEFITS FROM ERP RESEARCH? CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS USING ERPS DIRECTIONS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH CONSIDERING INCORPORATING ERPS INTO YOUR RESEARCH PROGRAM? CONCLUSION REFERENCES DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING: ANALYSIS METHODS FOR GROUP COMPARISON IN NEUROLOGY B. DTI ACQUISITION C. QUANTIFICATION OF DIFFUSION PROPERTIES OF SINGLE SUBJECT DATA – DTI THEORY D. STANDARD DATA PROCESSING 1. Eddy Current Correction 2. Transformation to Iso-Voxels and Smoothing 3. Transformation into a Stereotaxic Standard Space 4. Averaging of Single Subject Data and Group Comparison 5. Fiber Tracking 6. The TIFT Software E. GROUP COMPARISON AND FIBER TRACKING ON GROUP-AVERAGED DATA 1. Whole Brain Based Spatial Statistics 2. Fiber Tracking on Group Averaged Data 3. Complementary Data Analyses F. APPLICATIONS OF DTI IN WM PATHOLOGY 1. DTI Parameters in WM Pathology Studies 2. Special Example: Thinning of the Corpus Callosum G. DISCUSSION AND SUMMARY REFERENCES SECTION IV. ADVANCES IN TREATMENT USING VIRTUAL REALITY FOR CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION THE HISTORY AND RATIONALE FOR CLINICAL VIRTUAL REALITY VIRTUAL REALITY DEFINITIONS AND TECHNOLOGY EXPOSURE THERAPY Use Case: The Virtual Iraq/Afghanistan PTSD Exposure Therapy Project NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL VR APPLICATIONS USE CASE: THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM ATTENTION ASSESSMENT PROJECT VIRTUAL PATIENTS FOR CLINICAL TRAINING USE CASE: VIRTUAL PATIENTS FOR CLINICAL TRAINING CONCLUSION REFERENCES TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC AND DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION: OVERVIEW OF THE TECHNIQUE REPETITIVE REGULAR AND PATTERNED TMS SAFETY MECHANISMS OF ACTION DEPRESSION AND RTMS PARKINSON DISEASE AND RTMS DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION: OVERVIEW OF THE TECHNIQUE MECHANISMS OF ACTION DBS IN THE CLINICAL SETTING EMERGING DBS INDICATIONS CONCLUSION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS REFERENCES AN INTRODUCTION TO NEUROTHERAPY REFERENCES TELEHEALTH CONFERENCING IN THE NEUROSCIENCES VIDEOCONFERENCING HISTORY VIDEOCONFERENCING TECHNOLOGY Monitor Camera Codec CONNECTING BANDWIDTH OTHER EQUIPMENT Videoconferencing in Telemedicine THE FUTURE REFERENCES WORKBOOKS: PROGRAMMED INTERACTIVE PRACTICE EXERCISES The Nature of Workbooks Practice Exercises Workbooks for Preventive and Health Promotional Life-long Learning Workbooks for Psychiatric Classification Workbooks from Research with Single- or Multiple-Score Tests RESEARCH RESULTS CONCLUSION REFERENCES EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNET PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS ABSTRACT HISTORICAL AND SYSTEMATIC BACKGROUND TECHNOLOGY WITH A PURPOSE/SETTING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES NATURE OF PARTICIPANTS USED SUCCESS AND FAILURES OF APPROACH Anxiety Disorders Mixed Anxiety Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Panic Disorder (PD) Social Phobia (SP) Depression RECENT APPLICATION Internet-Based Treatments for Substance Abuse Internet-Based Treatments for Eating Disorders Internet-Based Treatments for Health Problems FUTURE APPLICATIONS: WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE CONCLUSION REFERENCES SECTION V. CONCLUSION THE FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, AND NEUROLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING AND TREATMENT THE IMPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY ON MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY IN ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY DISEASES TECHNOLOGY IN THE PREVENTION AND EDUCATION OF NEUROPSYCHIATRY DISEASES CONCLUSION REFERENCES INDEX