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    Psychopharmacological treatment and personality: Cognitive schemes changes during pharmacological treatments [Psicofarmaci e personalitá: Modificazioni degli schemi cognitivi in corso di trattamenti farmacologici]

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    The way to experience feelings, emotions, to express them, the particular kind of being, behaving, the meanings we attribute to ourselves, to others and to events, the importance given to situations and the way of facing them, are expressions that characterize ourselves and allow us to be distinct. In the tradition of cognitive psychology the subject isn't passive in receiving environmental imputes, but he has mental structures that direct him in the information choice and in the meaning attribution. To these structures has been given the name of cognitive scheme. The «psychological» nature of these cognitive patterns seems to exclude the possibility of a change by psychopharmacological treatment. The clinical experience suggests that psychotropic drugs are able to change these dimensions traditionally considered more «psychological», often subverting the usual behaviour patterns, and not only the symptomatology of the disorder. In literature only few studies concerning the connection between these mental structure and the psychopharmacological treatment exist

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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