Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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Adolescents' patterns of physical activity and psychosocial factors associated with maintenance, drop out and uptake of physical activity over twelve months
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)This thesis sought to quantitatively explore patterns of physical activity among adolescents and the psychosocial factors associated with physical activity maintenance and behaviour change over twelve months. The research ... -
Assessing the efficacy of a culturally adapted cognitive-behavioural internet-delivered treatment for depression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)Background: Depressive disorders are the principal cause of disability in the world, with an upward trend in prevalence in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Depression can be effectively treated, however, several ... -
Behavioural and Electrophysiological Aspects of Error Processing in Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Ageing
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)An inherent aspect of healthy, non-pathological ageing is a marked decline in cognitive ability across a distributed network of functions. One feature of this reduced cognitive capacity is a diminution in the ability to ... -
Development and validation of objective measures of brain maintenance and cognitive reserve
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Age-related cognitive decline is an increasingly important societal issue, given projected increases in the proportion of older adults in the coming decades. Early identification of cognitive decline will enable earlier ... -
Development of the RISKRES: Screening for risk factors and resilience contributing towards suicidality in adolescents and young people
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Youth suicide is a societal issue which warrants attention. The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometrically sound method to measure both risk factors and resilience as potential predictors of suicidality for ... -
Dual Process Interventions for Diagnostic Reasoning Among Medical Students and Junior Doctors
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)The aim of this thesis was to examine cognitive interventions to enhance diagnostic accuracy based on the dual process model of analytical and non-analytical reasoning. The work sought to use the model as an organising ... -
An Electrophysiological Investigation into Temporal Factors in Human Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)At any given moment, the human brain receives a barrage of noisy sensory signals that convey important information about events taking place in the surrounding world. In order to function optimally in our environment we ... -
Evaluation of the wireless dry EEG Cumulus platform to conduct neurocognitive research
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2023)The identification and validation of reliable brain biomarkers to characterize neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders can be laborious and generally relies on time-consuming brain imaging methods. Brain activity ... -
An exploration of caregivers' and peers' support-giving responses to adolescents showing signs of depression.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Background: Adolescent depression is linked to significant impairment, recurrence in adulthood, heightened risk of suicide, and increased all-cause mortality (Schubert, Clark, Van, Collinson, & Baune, 2017; Shore, Toumbourou, ... -
An investigation of the effects of coordinatio training on cognitive function in older adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)The world?s population is ageing. It is well known that the ageing process causes progressive loss of various cognitive functions and physical capacities. Modern neuroimaging techniques have shown that these changes are ... -
A National Evaluation of the Counselling in Primary Care Service (CIPC)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Until this study, there were no national data for the effectiveness of counselling or psychotherapy provided in the primary care context in the Republic of Ireland. The government policy document Vision for Change states ... -
Neural Mechanisms Mediating the Cross Education of Motor Function: Implications for Healthy Older Adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Cross education (CE) is the process whereby a regimen of unilateral limb training engenders bilateral improvements in motor function. It is widely held that the contralateral gains thus derived may impart therapeutic ... -
The Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Signatures of Age-Related Differences in Mind-Wandering
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Our inner mental life is subject to a constant, discursive, dynamically evolving stream of thoughts. Mind-wandering is the mind s default state, occupying up to half of all conscious cogitations, during which our thoughts ... -
Predictive and explanatory models of cigarette smoking: Computational approaches to understanding nicotine addiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide, causing 6 million deaths every year (WHO, 2011). Most people try smoking for the first time in adolescence (O?Loughlin et al., 2014), making this a critical ... -
A qualitative study of dropout from an internet-delivered CBT intervention for adults with depression and anxiety
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Despite the efficacy and widespread use of online-delivered psychological interventions, treatment dropout remains a problem that for the most part is poorly understood. This qualitative study investigated the subjective ... -
Using neurofeedback and machine learning to investigate the role of Beta oscillations in response inhibition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Response inhibition is the ability to flexibly suppress unwanted or inappropriate actions, and it is a core component of healthy executive control. Impaired response inhibition is characteristic of a wide range of psychiatric ... -
What is psychosis? Exploring the Nature and Correlates of Psychotic Symptoms in the General Population and Former Residents of Institutional Care Facilities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Background: The extant literature indicates that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychotic symptoms is arbitrary. Emerging evidence indicates that psychosis may be best represented as a multidimensional ...
