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How good are inpatients at feigning Miranda abilities?: An investigation of the Miranda Quiz, Inventory of Legal Knowledge, and Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology Behavioral Sciences & the Law (IF 1.102) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Richard Rogers, Tanveer K. Otal, Sarah F. Velsor, Minqi Pan
The current study represents the first investigation into feigned Miranda abilities using an inpatient population. We investigated the use of a very generic measure (i.e., the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology, or SIMS) as well as two specialized forensic feigning measures: the Miranda Quiz (MQ) and Inventory of Legal Knowledge (ILK). With a quasi‐random assignment, 82 acute inpatients
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Wanting sex and willing to kill: Examining demographic and cognitive characteristics of violent “involuntary celibates” Behavioral Sciences & the Law (IF 1.102) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 D J Williams, Michael Arntfield, Kaleigh Schaal, Jolene Vincent
Over the past several years, an online community of self‐described “incels,” referring to involuntary celibates, has emerged and gained increased public attention. Central to the guiding incel ideology and master narrative are violent misogynistic beliefs and an attitude of entitlement, based on male gender and social positioning, with respect to obtaining desired and often illusory sexual experiences
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Increased cognitive flexibility mediates the improvement of eating disorders symptoms, depressive symptoms and level of daily life functioning in patients with anorexia nervosa treated in specialised centres Eur. Eat. Disord. Rev. (IF 3.56) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Philibert Duriez, Héline Kaya Lefèvre, Laura Di Lodovico, Odile Viltart, Philip Gorwood
Poor cognitive flexibility has been highlighted in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), contributing to the development and maintenance of symptoms. The aim of the present study is to investigate how enhanced cognitive flexibility is involved in treatment outcomes in patients with AN.
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Motivation to recover for adolescent and adult eating disorder patients in residential treatment Eur. Eat. Disord. Rev. (IF 3.56) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Jamie Manwaring, Dan V. Blalock, Daniel Le Grange, Alan Duffy, Susan F. McClanahan, Craig Johnson, Philip S. Mehler, Millie Plotkin, Renee D. Rienecke
This study aimed to assess how baseline motivation to recover impacts eating disorder (ED) and comorbid symptoms at end‐of‐treatment (EOT) for adolescents and adults in inpatient/residential treatment.
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Indications for Inpatient Magnetoencephalography in Children – An Institution’s Experience Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Michael W. Watkins, Ekta G. Funke, Michael E. Funke, Stephanie Garcia-Tarodo, Manish N. Shah, Nitin Tandon, Fernando Maestú, Christopher Laohathai, David I. Sandberg, Jeremy E. Lankford, Stephen Thompson, John C Mosher, Gretchen Von Allmen
Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is recognized as a valuable noninvasive clinical method for localization of the epileptogenic zone and critical functional areas, as part of a pre-surgical evaluation for patients with pharmaco-resistant epilepsy. MEG is also useful in localizing functional areas as part of pre-surgical planning for tumor resection. MEG is usually performed in an outpatient setting, as
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Magnetoencephalography Responses to Unpredictable and Predictable Rare Somatosensory Stimuli in Healthy Adult Humans Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Qianru Xu, Chaoxiong Ye, Jarmo A. Hämäläinen, Elisa M. Ruohonen, Xueqiao Li, Piia Astikainen
Mismatch brain responses to unpredicted rare stimuli are suggested to be a neural indicator of prediction error, but this has rarely been studied in the somatosensory modality. Here, we investigated how the brain responds to unpredictable and predictable rare events. Magnetoencephalography responses were measured in adults to frequently presented somatosensory stimuli (FRE) that were occasionally replaced
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A P300 Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm Based on Electric and Vibration Simple Command Tactile Stimulation Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Chenxi Chu, Jingjing Luo, Xiwei Tian, Xiangke Han, Shijie Guo
This paper proposes a novel tactile-stimuli based P300 paradigm for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), with only one target site stimulated in each block. It features a combination of spatial and frequency information, using the spatial information identifying the sites of stimuli and frequency information distinguishing target stimuli and non-target stimuli. A classification algorithm has also been developed
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Maladaptive metacognitive beliefs mediated the effect of intolerance of uncertainty on depression Clin. Psychol. Psychother. (IF 2.477) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Jing Chen, Youguo Tan, Xiaotong Cheng, Zhenlei Peng, Cheng Qin, Xinyi Zhou, Xingzi Lu, Anqi Huang, Xiaoyuan Liao, Mingyuan Tian, Xuemei Liang, Chaohua Huang, Jia Zhou, Bo Xiang, Kezhi Liu, Wei Lei
Both elevated intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and maladaptive metacognitive beliefs (MBs) were associated with depression. However, the relationship between MBs and IU in clinical depression is unclear. The current study aimed to investigate the putative impairment of MBs and IU in major depressive disorder (MDD) and explore the relationship between these two factors with depressive symptoms. Metacognition
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Perceived helpfulness of depression treatments among young adults with autism Autism Res. (IF 3.727) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Shuting Zheng, Julie Lounds Taylor, Ryan Adams, Florencia Pezzimenti, Somer L. Bishop
Currently available treatments for depression show limited effectiveness in adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) based on measures of symptom changes and clinician impressions. Perceived helpfulness is another metric that has been found to be useful for understanding treatment outcomes in the general population, but it has not yet been explored in adults with ASD. Thus, the current study collected
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Ian Deary and Robert Sternberg answer five self-inflicted questions about human intelligence Intelligence (IF 2.471) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Ian J. Deary, Robert J. Sternberg
Ian Deary and Robert Sternberg have been writing about intelligence differences since 1982 and 1977, respectively. As Deary was retiring at the end of 2020, they discussed an idea for their first joint paper. They composed five questions related to research on intelligence differences, about: attempts to find cognitive components of intelligence; the place of theory in intelligence research; the breadth
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Mental health in the UK Biobank: a roadmap to self-report measures and neuroimaging correlates medRxiv. Psychiatry Clin. Psychol. Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Rosie K Dutt, Kayla Hannon, Ty O Easley, Joseph Griffis, Wei Zhang, Janine Bijsterbosch
The UK Biobank (UKB) is a highly promising dataset for brain biomarker research into population mental health due to its unprecedented sample size and extensive phenotypic, imaging, and biological measurements. In this study, we aimed to provide a shared foundation for UKB neuroimaging research into mental health with a focus on anxiety and depression. We compared UKB self-report measures and revealed
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COVID-19 and mortality risk in patients with psychiatric disorders medRxiv. Psychiatry Clin. Psychol. Pub Date : 2021-04-13 George Kirov, Emily Baker
COVID-19 has already caused the deaths of over 2.5 million people worldwide. Patients with certain medical conditions and severe psychiatric disorders are at increased risk of dying from it. However, such people have a reduced life expectancy anyway, raising the question whether COVID-19 incurs a specific risk for such patients for dying, over and above the risk of dying from other causes. We analysed
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Response to targeted cognitive training may be neuroprotective in patients with early schizophrenia Psychiatry Res. Neuroimaging (IF 2.063) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Ian S. Ramsay, Susanna Fryer, Brian J. Roach, Alison Boos, Melissa Fisher, Rachel Loewy, Judith M. Ford, Sophia Vinogradov, Daniel H. Mathalon
Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit widespread cortical thinning associated with illness severity and deficits in cognition. However, intact cortical thickness (CTh) may serve as a protective factor. The current study sought to examine changes in CTh in response to auditory targeted cognitive training (TCT) in individuals with recent onset schizophrenia. Participants underwent MRI scanning and a
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Variable alterations in plasma erythropoietin and brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in patients with major depressive disorder with and without a history of suicide attempt Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry (IF 4.361) Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Bun-Hee Lee, Young-Min Park, Jung-A Hwang, Yong-Ku Kim
It is hypothesized that major depression disorder (MDD) is associated with impaired neuronal plasticity, and that antidepressant treatments restore neuroplasticity. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and erythropoietin (Epo) show neurotrophic and neuroprotective effects. We evaluated plasma Epo and BDNF levels in 50 MDD inpatients before treatment and in 50 healthy controls. The MDD inpatients
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Lasting effects of mild embryonic ethanol exposure on voltage-gated ion channels in adult zebrafish brain Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry (IF 4.361) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Dipashree Chatterjee, Samantha Mahabir, Diptendu Chatterjee, Robert Gerlai
The zebrafish is increasingly well utilized in alcohol research, particularly in modeling human fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). FASD results from alcohol reaching the developing fetus intra utero, a completely preventable yet prevalent and devastating life-long disorder. The hope with animal models, including the zebrafish, is to discover the mechanisms underlying this disease, which may aid
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The C Factor: Cognitive dysfunction as a transdiagnostic dimension in psychopathology Clin. Psychol. Rev. (IF 10.255) Pub Date : 2021-03-26 Amitai Abramovitch, Tatiana Short, Avraham Schweiger
Research into cognitive functions across psychological disorders suggests that cognitive deficiencies may be present across multiple disorders, potentially pointing to a transdiagnostic phenomenon. More recently, a single dimension model of psychopathology, the p factor, has been proposed, in which cognitive deficits are thought to be an intrinsic construct, assumed to be transdiagnostic. However,
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Auditory discrimination and frequency modulation learning in schizophrenia patients: amphetamine within-subject dose response and time course Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Neal R. Swerdlow, Savita G. Bhakta, Jo Talledo, Lindsay Benster, Juliana Kotz, Sophia Vinogradov, Juan L. Molina, Gregory A. Light
Background Auditory frequency modulation learning (‘auditory learning’) is a key component of targeted cognitive training (TCT) for schizophrenia. TCT can be effective in enhancing neurocognition and function in schizophrenia, but such gains require significant time and effort and elude many patients. Methods As a strategy to increase and/or accelerate TCT-induced clinical gains, we tested the dose-
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The contribution of depressive ‘disorder characteristics’ to determinations of prognosis for adults with depression: an individual patient data meta-analysis Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Joshua E. J. Buckman, Rob Saunders, Zachary D. Cohen, Phoebe Barnett, Katherine Clarke, Gareth Ambler, Robert J. DeRubeis, Simon Gilbody, Steven D. Hollon, Tony Kendrick, Edward Watkins, Nicola Wiles, David Kessler, David Richards, Deborah Sharp, Sally Brabyn, Elizabeth Littlewood, Chris Salisbury, Ian R. White, Glyn Lewis, Stephen Pilling
Background This study aimed to investigate general factors associated with prognosis regardless of the type of treatment received, for adults with depression in primary care. Methods We searched Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Cochrane Central (inception to 12/01/2020) for RCTs that included the most commonly used comprehensive measure of depressive and anxiety disorder symptoms and diagnoses, in primary
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Effectiveness of cognitive remediation in depression: a meta-analysis Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Amanda M. Legemaat, Maria Semkovska, Marlies Brouwer, Gert J. Geurtsen, Huibert Burger, Damiaan Denys, Claudi L. Bockting
Background Preliminary evidence suggests beneficial effects of cognitive remediation in depression. An update of the current evidence is needed. The aim was to systematically assess the effectiveness of cognitive remediation in depression on three outcomes. Methods The meta-analysis was pre-registered on PROSPERO (CRD42019124316). PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase and Cochrane Library were searched on 2 February
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Late-life cynical hostility is associated with white matter alterations and the risk of Alzheimer's disease Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Fabienne Cyprien, Claudine Berr, Jerome J. Maller, Chantal Meslin, Mélissa Gentreau, Thibault Mura, Audrey Gabelle, Philippe Courtet, Karen Ritchie, Marie-Laure Ancelin, Sylvaine Artero
Background Cynical hostility (CH), a specific dimension of hostility that consists of a mistrust of others, has been suggested as a high-risk trait for dementia. However, the influence of CH on the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains poorly understood. This study investigated whether late-life CH is associated with AD risk and structural neuroimaging markers of AD. Methods In community-dwelling
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Post-traumatic stress disorder as a predictor for incident hypertension: a 3-year retrospective cohort study Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Victoria Mendlowicz, Maria Luiza Garcia-Rosa, Marcio Gekker, Larissa Wermelinger, William Berger, Mariana Pires de Luz, Paulo Roberto Telles Pires-Dias, Carla Marques-Portela, Ivan Figueira, Mauro Vitor Mendlowicz
Background The goal of the present study was to investigate the association between PTSD and the onset of hypertension in previously normotensive individuals in a population living in the stressful environment of the urban slums while controlling for risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Methods Participants were 320 normotensive individuals who lived in slums and were attending a family doctor
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Prevalence of internalizing disorders, symptoms, and traits across age using advanced nonlinear models Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Hanna M. van Loo, Lian Beijers, Martijn Wieling, Trynke R. de Jong, Robert A. Schoevers, Kenneth S. Kendler
Background Most epidemiological studies show a decrease of internalizing disorders at older ages, but it is unclear how the prevalence exactly changes with age, and whether there are different patterns for internalizing symptoms and traits, and for men and women. This study investigates the impact of age and sex on the point prevalence across different mood and anxiety disorders, internalizing symptoms
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Psychiatric comorbidity as predictor and moderator of binge-eating disorder treatment outcomes: an analysis of aggregated randomized controlled trials Psychol. Med. (IF 5.813) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Janet A. Lydecker, Carlos M. Grilo
Background Psychiatric comorbidity is common in binge-eating disorder (BED) but effects on treatment outcomes are unknown. The current study aimed to determine whether psychiatric comorbidity predicted or moderated BED treatment outcomes. Methods In total, 636 adults with BED in randomized-controlled trials (RCTs) were assessed prior, throughout, and posttreatment by doctoral research-clinicians using
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The Dark Triad trait of psychopathy and message framing predict risky decision‐making during the COVID‐19 pandemic Int. J. Psychol. (IF 1.255) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Stephen M. Doerfler, Maryam Tajmirriyahi, Amandeep Dhaliwal, Aaron J. Bradetich, William Ickes, Daniel S. Levine
The effects of framing on risky decision‐making have been studied extensively in research using Kahneman and Tversky's (1981) hypothetical scenario about a contagious Asian disease. The COVID‐19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to test how message framing affects risky decision‐making when millions of real lives are at stake worldwide. In a sample of US adults (N = 294), we investigated the effects
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Prevention and Intervention Programs Targeting Sexual Abuse in Individuals with Mild Intellectual Disability: A Systematic Review J. Ment. Health Res. Intellect. Disabil. (IF 1.167) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Kelly J. Stobbe, Mia Scheffers, Jooske T. van Busschbach, Robert Didden
ABSTRACT Introduction: Compared to their non-disabled peers, individuals with mild intellectual disability (MID) are at higher risk of becoming a victim of sexual abuse and more vulnerable to its disruptive effects. This review provides an overview of content and effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs targeting sexual abuse in individuals with MID. Methods: PRISMA guidelines were followed
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Community Monitoring of Health Parameters in People with Intellectual Disabilities Prescribed Lithium J. Ment. Health Res. Intellect. Disabil. (IF 1.167) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Joshua Howkins, Mike Wilcock, Rohit Shankar
ABSTRACT Background: Lithium is well described in managing certain mental illnesses including in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). It requires regular monitoring particularly of serum levels and relevant biochemistry. However, existing monitoring protocols do not provide ID-specific guidance leading to increased risk of poor-quality care. This study aims to construct a protocol to aid monitoring
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Anxiety in a Preschool-Aged Sample with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Developmental Delay: Rates, Symptom Manifestation, and Parenting Risk Variables J. Ment. Health Res. Intellect. Disabil. (IF 1.167) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Neilson Chan, Catherine M. Sanner, Hadley A. McGregor, Amanda E. Preston, Cameron L. Neece
ABSTRACT Introduction: Children with developmental delays (DD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are at a high risk for emotional and behavioral concerns. Research examining co-occurring anxiety in those with ASD during early childhood is scarce. The current study examined rates, symptom manifestation, and parenting risk correlates of anxiety among young children with ASD and those with a non-spectrum
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Engaging vulnerable populations in drug treatment court: Six month outcomes from a co-occurring disorder wraparound intervention Int. J. Law Psychiatry (IF 1.341) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Paige M. Shaffer, Camilo Posada Rodriguez, Ayorkor Gaba, Thomas Byrne, Sheila C. Casey, Jennifer Harter, David Smelson
Objective Although drug treatment courts (DTCs) have demonstrated positive outcomes, participants with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (CODs) are a high-risk group that often struggle with treatment engagement not previously examined. This pilot study fills this gap by looking at six-month behavioral health and criminal justice outcomes among a hard to engage DTC COD participant
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Parent and practitioner perspectives on Circle of Security Parenting (COS‐P): A qualitative study Infant Ment. Health J. (IF 1.389) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Anne‐Marie Maxwell, Rebecca E. Reay, Anna Huber, Erinn Hawkins, Erin Woolnough, Catherine McMahon
Circle of Security Parenting (COS‐P) is an attachment‐theory‐informed program for parents of infants and young children. Designed for scalability, COS‐P has been widely adopted internationally. Evidence for the program's effectiveness is limited, however, restricting capacity to make informed decisions about program allocation, and threatening ongoing program funding. To help address this evidence
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Science knowledge and trust in medicine affect individuals’ behavior in pandemic crises Eur. J. Psychol. Educ. (IF 1.247) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Michael Sailer, Matthias Stadler, Elouise Botes, Frank Fischer, Samuel Greiff
In pandemic crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals’ behavior has a strong impact on epidemiological processes. Compliance with prevention guidelines, such as social distancing, is critical to avoid further spreading an infectious disease or to slow down its spread. However, some individuals also or instead engage in panic behavior, such as hoarding. We investigate how education prepares
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Five-month-old infants attribute inferences based on general knowledge to agents J. Exp. Child Psychol. (IF 2.301) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Fransisca Ting, Zijing He, Renée Baillargeon
To make sense of others’ actions, we generally consider what information is available to them. This information may come from different sources, including perception and inference. Like adults, young infants track what information agents can obtain through perception: If an agent directly observes an event, for example, young infants expect the agent to have information about it. However, no investigation
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Mediated semantic priming interference in toddlers as seen through pupil dynamics J. Exp. Child Psychol. (IF 2.301) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Armando Quetzalcóatl Angulo-Chavira, Natalia Arias-Trejo
Mediated priming refers to the activation of a target word by a prime word through an intermediate word. This type of priming provides behavioral evidence of between- and within-level spreading activation in the lexical system. Studies of toddlers show phonosemantic between-level mediated priming that supports a cascade of activation between different levels of processing. However, it is not clear
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Material and relational asymmetry: The role of receivers’ wealth and power status in children’s resource allocation J. Exp. Child Psychol. (IF 2.301) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Xuran Zhang, John Corbit, Xue Xiao, Liangyuan Xu, Bingying Wei, Yanfang Li
Asymmetries in social status, specifically social status related to wealth and relational power, appear to influence the ways in which children allocate resources. However, the impact of wealth and relational power status on children’s resource allocation decisions has yet to be examined among children developing within a Chinese cultural context. In addition, how children weight the relative importance
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Measuring and Quantifying Collateral Information in Psychiatry: Development and Preliminary Validation of the McLean Collateral Information and Clinical Actionability Scale JMIR Mental Health (IF 3.535) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Praise Owoyemi, Sarah Salcone, Christopher King, Heejung Julie Kim, Kerry James Ressler, Ipsit Vihang Vahia
Background: The review of collateral information is an essential component of patient care. Although this is standard practice, minimal research has been done to quantify collateral information collection and to understand how collateral information translates to clinical decision making. To address this, we developed and piloted a novel measure (the McLean Collateral Information and Clinical Actionability
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Virtual Reality–Based Psychotherapy in Social Anxiety Disorder: fMRI Study Using a Self-Referential Task JMIR Mental Health (IF 3.535) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Ji-Won Hur, Hyemin Shin, Dooyoung Jung, Heon-Jeong Lee, Sungkil Lee, Gerard J Kim, Chung-Yean Cho, Seungmoon Choi, Seung-Moo Lee, Chul-Hyun Cho
Background: Although it has been well demonstrated that the efficacy of virtual reality therapy for social anxiety disorder is comparable to that of traditional cognitive behavioral therapy, little is known about the effect of virtual reality on pathological self-referential processes in individuals with social anxiety disorder. Objective: We aimed to determine changes in self-referential processing
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“It just gives people hope”: A qualitative inquiry into the lived experience of the Harry Potter world in mental health recovery Arts Psychother. (IF 1.322) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Kelsey V. Tribe, Fiona Ann Papps, Fiona Calvert
The Harry Potter universe is both widely accessible and incredibly popular, and this feature combined with its depth of narrative and genre may make it uniquely suitable to supporting mental health recovery. The current study aims to address a gap in the literature around how engagement with the Harry Potter universe, in the tradition of unguided creative bibliotherapy, may allow people to derive
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Early Literacy Skills and Later Reading and Writing Performance Across Countries: The Effects of Orthographic Consistency and Preschool Curriculum Child Youth Care Forum (IF 1.355) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Marinella Majorano, Tamara Bastianello, Carolina Bodea-Hategan, Patrizia Fantuzzi, Giulia Fontana, Eddy Hoste, Marco Lombardi, An Standaert, Dorina Talas, Raluca Trifu, Lisa Vescogni, Valentina Persici
Background Studies have reported a strong association between children's early literacy skills at preschool and their reading and writing skills at primary school. However, it is unclear whether this association is affected by language and curriculum practices. Objective The study investigates (i) whether early literacy skills are influenced by orthographic consistency and by preschool curriculum,
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Does signal reduction imply predictive coding in models of spoken word recognition? Psychon. Bull. Rev. (IF 3.91) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Sahil Luthra, Monica Y. C. Li, Heejo You, Christian Brodbeck, James S. Magnuson
Pervasive behavioral and neural evidence for predictive processing has led to claims that language processing depends upon predictive coding. Formally, predictive coding is a computational mechanism where only deviations from top-down expectations are passed between levels of representation. In many cognitive neuroscience studies, a reduction of signal for expected inputs is taken as being diagnostic
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Rehabilitation of limb apraxia in patients following stroke: a systematic review Appl. Neuropsychol. Adult (IF 1.488) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Anas Radi Alashram, Giuseppe Annino, Salameh Aldajah, Manikandan Raju, Elvira Padua
Abstract Apraxia is widely used to describe one of the more disabling deficits following left strokes. The role of rehabilitation in treating apraxic stroke patients remains unclear. This systematic review was conducted to study the impacts of various rehabilitation interventions on the limb apraxia post-stroke. PubMed, SCOPUS, PEDro, CINAHL, MEDLINE, REHABDATA, and Web of Science were searched for
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In COM we trust: Feasibility of USB-based event marking Behav. Res. Methods (IF 4.425) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Stefan Appelhoff, Tristan Stenner
Modern experimental research often relies on the synchronization of different events prior to data analysis. One way of achieving synchronization involves marking distinct events with electrical pulses (event markers or “TTL pulses”), which are continuously recorded with research hardware, and can later be temporally aligned. Traditionally, this event marking was often performed using the parallel
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The cone method: Inferring decision times from single-trial 3D movement trajectories in choice behavior Behav. Res. Methods (IF 4.425) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Philipp Ulbrich, Alexander Gail
Ongoing goal-directed movements can be rapidly adjusted following new environmental information, e.g., when chasing pray or foraging. This makes movement trajectories in go-before-you-know decision-making a suitable behavioral readout of the ongoing decision process. Yet, existing methods of movement analysis are often based on statistically comparing two groups of trial-averaged trajectories and are
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as a Treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analysis J. Affect. Disord. (IF 3.892) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Adam Harris, John Reece
Background Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a pervasive mental health condition with limited treatment success. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) has shown positive outcomes for people with PTSD, using different treatment protocols. This meta-analysis sought to examine which variables in TMS treatment are associated with treatment benefits. Methods A literature search of major online research
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Social support and siblings of children with cancer: A scoping review Psycho-Oncology (IF 3.006) Pub Date : 2021-04-05 Sarah E. Wawrzynski, Megan R. Schaefer, Nena Schvaneveldt, Melissa A. Alderfer
Social support is essential in healthy adjustment to life stressors. This scoping review examines how social support has been conceptualized, operationalized, and studied among siblings of children with cancer. Gaps in the current literature are identified, and future research directions are proposed.
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Phonemic restoration of interrupted locally time-reversed speech Atten. Percept. Psychophys. (IF 1.893) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Kazuo Ueda, Valter Ciocca
Intelligibility of temporally degraded speech was investigated with locally time-reversed speech (LTR) and its interrupted version (ILTR). Control stimuli comprising interrupted speech (I) were also included. Speech stimuli consisted of 200 Japanese meaningful sentences. In interrupted stimuli, speech segments were alternated with either silent gaps or pink noise bursts. The noise bursts had a level
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Emotional problem‐related distress screening and its prevalence by cancer type: Assessment by patients' characteristics and level of assistance requested Psycho-Oncology (IF 3.006) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Cristiane Decat Bergerot, Marianne Razavi, Karen Lynn Clark, Errol J Philip, Sumanta Kumar Pal, Matthew Loscalzo, William Dale
Emotional problem‐related distress is a common issue faced by patients with cancer. However, patients suffering with this emotional burden do not typically seek assistance. This study sought to determine the prevalence of emotional problem‐related distress by cancer type, and identify factors correlated with the level of assistance requested.
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The Role of Online Group Norms and Social Identity in Youth Problem Gambling Comput. Hum. Behav. (IF 5.003) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Iina Savolainen, Atte Oksanen, Markus Kaakinen, Anu Sirola, Izabela Zych, Hye-Jin Paek
The Internet and technologies have increased gambling opportunities globally, normalizing gambling among young individuals. Youth are active Internet users and susceptible to group norms, but little is known about group behavior and norms in online interaction. [R2:1] This study examined if following perceived majority opinions about gambling content (i.e., gambling norms) [R2:5] in online interaction
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Value co-destruction: The influence of failed interactions on members’ behaviors in online travel communities Comput. Hum. Behav. (IF 5.003) Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Xingyang Lv, Rui Zhang, Qiuyun Li
In online travel communities, value can be both co-created and co-destroyed. Many recent studies have investigated value co-creation and its causes and effects. However, the internal mechanisms of value co-destruction caused by customers’ interactions remain underexplored. This study empirically examines the value co-destruction expressive behaviors, their outcomes, and the negative perceptions and
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Clozapine-Associated Leukopenia and Agranulocytosis in Western Cape, South Africa: A 3-Year Retrospective Cohort Study. J. Clinical Psychopharmacol. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Christoff Geldenhuys, Moleen Zunza, Nicki Tiffin, Liezl Koen, Eric H Decloedt
Clozapine may cause life-threatening hematological side effects (HSEs). Hematological side effect incidence data from Sub-Saharan Africa are lacking. Furthermore, clozapine reduces cellular immunity, and it is unknown whether clozapine is a risk factor for tuberculosis or whether HIV is a risk factor for developing HSEs. We assessed the incidence of HSEs in South Africans from the Western Cape Province
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Effects of Ayahuasca on the Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotions in Naive Healthy Volunteers: A Pilot, Proof-of-Concept, Randomized Controlled Trial. J. Clinical Psychopharmacol. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 Juliana Mendes Rocha, Giordano Novak Rossi, Flávia de Lima Osório, José Carlos Bouso, Gabriela de Oliveira Silveira, Mauricio Yonamine, Alline Cristina Campos, Giuliana Bertozi, Hallak Jaime E Cecílio, Rafael G Dos Santos
The recognition of emotions in facial expressions (REFE) is a core aspect of social cognition. Previous studies with the serotonergic hallucinogens lysergic acid diethylamide and psilocybin showed that these drugs reduced the recognition of negative (fear) faces in healthy volunteers. This trial assessed the acute and prolonged effects of a single dose of ayahuasca on the REFE.
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Insights into codeswitching from online communication: Effects of language preference and conditions arising from vocabulary richness Biling. Lang. Cognit. (IF 2.21) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Laurie Beth Feldman, Vidhushini Srinivasan, Rachel B. Fernandes, Samira Shaikh
Twitter data from a crisis that impacted many English–Spanish bilinguals show that the direction of codeswitches is associated with the statistically documented tendency of single speakers to prefer one language over another in their tweets, as gleaned from their tweeting history. Further, lexical diversity, a measure of vocabulary richness derived from information-theoretic measures of uncertainty
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Thalamic but not Subthalamic Neuromodulation Simplifies Word Use in Spontaneous Language Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Hannes Ole Tiedt, Felicitas Ehlen, Michelle Wyrobnik, Fabian Klostermann
Several investigations have shown language impairments following electrode implantation surgery for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in movement disorders. The impact of the actual stimulation, however, differs between DBS targets with further deterioration in formal language tests induced by thalamic DBS in contrast to subtle improvement observed in subthalamic DBS. Here, we studied speech samples from
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Prefrontal cortex activation during motor sequence learning under interleaved and repetitive practice: A two-channel near-infrared spectroscopy study Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Maarten A Immink, Monique Pointon, David L Wright, Frank E Marino
Training under high interference conditions through interleaved practice (IP) results in performance suppression during training but enhances long-term performance relative to repetitive practice (RP) involving low interference. Previous neuroimaging work addressing this contextual interference effect of motor learning has relied heavily on the blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) response using functional
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In-bed sensorimotor rehabilitation in early and late subacute stroke using a wearable elbow robot: a pilot study Front Hum Neurosci (IF 2.673) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Mei Zhen Huang, Yong-Soon Yoon, Jisu Yang, Chung-Yong Yang, Li-Qun Zhang
Objects: To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of in-bed wearable elbow robot training for motor recovery in patients with early and late subacute stroke. Methods: Eleven in-patient stroke survivors (men/women: 7/4, age: 50.7±10.6 years, post-stroke duration: 2.6±1.9 months received 15 sessions of training over about 4 weeks of hospital stay. During each hourly training, participants received
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Pygmalion in the genes? On the potentially negative impacts of polygenic scores for educational attainment Soc. Psychol. Educ. (IF 1.619) Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Lucas J. Matthews, Matthew S. Lebowitz, Ruth Ottman, Paul S. Appelbaum
Polygenic scores for educational attainment and related variables, such as IQ and “mathematical ability” are now readily available via direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies. Some researchers are even proposing the use of genetic tests in educational settings via “precision education,” in which individualized student education plans would be tailored to polygenic scores. The potential psychosocial
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A new insight into mechanisms of interferon alpha neurotoxicity: Expression of GRIN3A subunit of NMDA receptors and NMDA-evoked exocytosis Prog. Neuropsychopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry (IF 4.361) Pub Date : 2021-03-27 M. Obolenskaya, V. Dotsenko, O. Martsenyuk, S. Ralchenko, O. Krupko, A. Pastukhov, N. Filimonova, D. Starosila, S. Chernykh, T. Borisova
Neurological and psychiatric side effects accompany the high-dose interferon-alpha (IFNA) therapy. The primary genes responsible for these complications are mostly unknown. Our genome-wide search in mouse and rat genomes for the conservative genes containing IFN-stimulated response elements (ISRE) in their promoters revealed a new potential target gene of IFNA, Grin3α, which encodes the 3A subunit
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Development and validation of the Brief Assessment of Distress about Pain Eur. J. Pain (IF 3.492) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Laura L. Quentin, Cecelia I. Nelson, Casey D. Wright, Matthew C. Arias, Manasi M. Mittinty, Daniel W. McNeil
The experience of pain is a complex interaction of somatic, behavioural, affective and cognitive components. Negative psychological states (e.g., anxiety, fear and depression) are intertwined with pain and contribute to poorer outcomes for individuals suffering from chronic and acute pain by exacerbating the overall experience of pain and leading to increased dysfunction, disability, and distress.
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Web-based cognitive behavior therapy for chronic pain patients with aberrant drug-related behavior: How did it work and for whom? J. Behav. Med. (IF 2.988) Pub Date : 2021-04-12 Haiyi Xie, Honoria Guarino, Sarah K. Moore, Michelle Acosta, Alan J. Budney, Andrew Rosenblum, Lisa A. Marsch, Chunki Fong
This study explored mediating pathways, moderating factors, and moderated mediation effects of a web-based, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) intervention for chronic pain patients with aberrant drug-related behavior (ADRB). In a 2-arm RCT, patients with chronic pain who screened positive for ADRB received treatment-as-usual (TAU, n = 55) or TAU plus a 12-week, web-based CBT intervention (n = 55)
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Early stopping in clinical PET studies: how to reduce expense and exposure medRxiv. Psychiatry Clin. Psychol. Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Jonas Svensson, Martin Schain, Gitte Moos Knudsen, Todd Ogden, Pontus Plaven-Sigray
Clinical positron emission tomography (PET) research is costly and entails exposing participants to radioactivity. Researchers should therefore aim to include just the number of subjects needed to fulfill the purpose of the study, no more, no less. In this tutorial we show how to apply sequential Bayes Factor testing in order to stop the recruitment of subjects in a clinical PET study as soon as enough
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Reduced Energy Per Cycle, a Marker of Glutamatergic Synaptic Strength, in Individuals Diagnosed with PTSD and Depression medRxiv. Psychiatry Clin. Psychol. Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Lynnette Averill, Lihong Jiang, Prerana Purohit, Anastasia Coppoli, Christopher Averill, Jeremy Roscoe, Benjamin Kelmendi, Henk De Feyter, Robin de Graaf, Ralitza Gueorguieva, Gerard Sanacora, John Krystal, Douglas Rothman, Graeme Mason, Chadi Abdallah
Trauma and chronic stress are believed to induce and exacerbate psychopathology by disrupting glutamate synaptic connectivity. In this pilot study, we utilized energy-per-cycle (EPC), a novel putative biomarker of glutamatergic synaptic strength, to investigate the role of prefrontal neurotransmission in trauma psychopathology. Healthy control (n=18) and patients with comorbid posttraumatic stress
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A Machine Learning Perspective on Causes of Suicides and identification of Vulnerable Categories using Multiple Algorithms medRxiv. Psychiatry Clin. Psychol. Pub Date : 2021-04-13 Jitendra Shreemali, Prasun Chakrabarti, Tulika Chakrabarti, Sandeep Poddar, Daniel Sipple, Babak Kateb, Mohammad Nami
Background: Suicides represent a social tragedy with long term impact for the family. Given the growing incidence of suicides, a better understanding of factors causing it and addressing them has emerged as a social imperative. Material and Methods: This study analyzed suicide data for three decades (1987-2016) and was carried out in two phases. Machine Learning Models run after pre-processing the
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