Dr. Richard F. Thompson M.D.
Psychologist
217 North Cedar Avenue Cookeville TN, 38501About
Dr. Richard Thompson is a psychologist practicing in Cookeville, TN. Dr. Thompson specializes in the treatment of mental health problems, and helps people to cope with their mental illnesses. As a psychologist, Dr. Thompson evaluates and treats patients through a variety of methods, most typically being psychotherapy or talk therapy. Patients usually visit Dr. Thompson because they have been experiencing depression, anxiety, stress or anger for a significant period of time and are seeking help. Psychologists may perform a variety of exams and assessments to diagnose a mental condition.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cerebellar cortical inhibition and classical eyeblink conditioning.
- IgG-immunostaining in the intact rabbit brain: variable but significant staining of hippocampal and cerebellar neurons with anti-IgG.
- Cortical spreading depression and involvement of the motor cortex, auditory cortex, and cerebellum in eyeblink classical conditioning of the rabbit.
- Reversal of age-related learning deficits and brain oxidative stress in mice with
- Effects of estrogen, age, and calpain on MAP kinase and NMDA receptors in female rat brain.
- Inhibiting the expression of a classically conditioned behavior prevents its extinction.
- Neural substrates of eyeblink conditioning: acquisition and retention.
- Contextual fear conditioning is associated with lateralized expression of the immediate early gene c-fos in the central and basolateral amygdalar nuclei.
- Comment on "Cerebellar LTD and learning-dependent timing of conditioned eyelid responses".
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor plays a critical role in contextual fear conditioning.
- Brain mechanisms of extinction of the classically conditioned eyeblink response.
- Effects of a corneal anesthetic on extinction of the classically conditioned nictitating membrane response in the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus).
- In search of memory traces.
- Timing of conditioned responses utilizing electrical stimulation in the region of the interpositus nucleus as a CS.
- Long-term storage of an associative memory trace in the cerebellum.
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