OBJECTIVE BIOMETRIC METHODS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDERS

1. The closed feedback loops between the peripheral and the central nervous systems, the principle of reafference and its contribution to the definition of the self
2. Critical ingredients for proper social interactions: Rethinking the mirror neuron system theory
3. The case of autism spectrum disorders: When one cannot properly feel the body and its motions from the start of life
4. The case of schizophrenia: Is that my arm moving on purpose or spontaneously passing by?
5. Learning to be an expert in sports and the performing arts: Teaching sensory-motor physiology to psychology students from the start of their clinical careers
6. Rethinking diagnoses and treatments of disorders: The third (objective) neutral observer assessing the interactions between the examiner and the examinee or the therapist and the client
7. Cutting risk, cost and time in clinical trials with the help of big pharma
8. Adding dynamics to the principle of reafference: Recursive stochastic feedback closed control loops to evoke autonomy

• Provides methods and implementation strategies using real data and simple computer programs that less technical students and researchers can utilize
• Contains appendices with computer code in MATLAB, along with data samples to generate graphics displayed on figures in each chapter
• Presents videos that illustrate the experimental setup for each situation/method described

Author
Elizabeth B. Torres, Psychology Department, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA