Psychology (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Developments in Technology-Delivered Psychological Interventions
(2013)The worldwide penetration of the Internet and its related technologies, the rapid developments of new technologies and the pervasive use of technology in people’s lives, are indicators that we live in a technological age. ... -
Dissociated grey matter changes with prolonged addiction and extended abstinence in cocaine users
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Extensive evidence indicates that current and recently abstinent cocaine abusers compared to drug-naïve controls have decreased grey matter in regions such as the anterior cingulate, lateral prefrontal and insular cortex. ... -
What's distressing about having Type 1 diabetes? A qualitative study of young adults' perspectives
(2013)Background Diabetes distress is a general term that refers to the emotional burdens, anxieties, frustrations, stressors and worries that stem from managing a severe, complex condition like Type 1 diabetes. To date there ... -
The effect of non-informative spatial sounds on haptic scene recognition
(2013)Previous studies found that performance in tactile or haptic spatial tasks improved when non-informative visual information was available, suggesting that vision provides a precise spatial frame to which tactile information ... -
Combined structural and functional imaging reveals cortical deactivations in grapheme-colour synaesthesia.
(2013)Synaesthesia is a heritable condition in which particular stimuli generate specific and consistent sensory percepts or associations in another modality or processing stream. Functional neuroimaging studies have identified ... -
Susceptibility to a multisensory speech illusion in older persons is driven by perceptual processes.
(2013)Recent studies suggest that multisensory integration is enhanced in older adults but it is not known whether this enhancement is solely driven by perceptual processes or affected by cognitive processes. Using the “McGurk ... -
Reasons for referral, intervention approaches and demographic characteristics of clients with intellectual disability attending adult psychiatric outpatient services in the Kingdom of Bahrain
(2013)Relatively little information is available regarding the use of psychiatric services by individuals with intellectual disability (ID) in Arab countries. The current study aimed to identify (1) the reasons for referral; (2) ... -
Teaching behaviour change skills to undergraduate medical students
(2013)This study investigates the effects of a three-week student project where students selected a healthbehaviour and implemented a self-management program to increase or decrease that behavior. Behaviours were (1) smoking ... -
A phenotypic structure and neural correlates of compulsive behaviors in adolescents.
(2013)BACKGROUND: A compulsivity spectrum has been hypothesized to exist across Obsessive-Compulsive disorder (OCD), Eating Disorders (ED), substance abuse (SA) and binge-drinking (BD). The objective was to examine the validity ... -
Where are the gaps in improving maternal and child health in Mauritania? the case for contextualised interventions: a cross sectional study
(2013)Introduction: It is estimated that any progress made towards improving maternal and child health in Mauritania has likely stalled. A lack o f reliable and up - to - date data regarding maternal and chil d health ... -
BOLD frequency power indexes working memory performance
(2013)Electrophysiology studies routinely investigate the relationship between neural oscillations and task performance. However, the sluggish nature of the BOLD response means that few researchers have investigated the spectral ... -
White-matter microstructure and gray-matter volumes in adolescents with subthreshold bipolar symptoms
(2014)Abnormalities in white-matter (WM) microstructure, as lower fractional anisotropy (FA), have been reported in adolescent-onset bipolar disorder and in youth at familial risk for bipolarity. We sought to determine whether ... -
Resting-state connectivity deficits associated with impaired inhibitory control in non-treatment-seeking adolescents with psychotic symptoms
(2014)Objective— Psychotic symptoms are common in the population and index risk for a range of severe psychopathological outcomes. We wished to investigate functional connectivity in a community sample of adolescents who ... -
The role of the posterior temporal and medial prefrontal cortices in mediating learning from romantic interest and rejection
(2014)Romantic interest or rejection can be powerful incentives not merely for their emotional impact, but for their potential to transform, in a single interaction, what we think we know about another person – or ourselves. ... -
Category-dependent and category-independent goal-value codes in human ventromedial prefrontal cortex
(2013)To choose between manifestly distinct options, it is suggested that the brain assigns values to goals using a common currency. Although previous studies have reported activity in ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) ... -
Core concepts of human rights and inclusion of vulnerable groups in the mental health policies of Malawi, Namibia, and Sudan
(2013)Abstract Background: One of the most crucial steps towards delivering judicious and comprehensive mental health care is the formulation of a policy and plan that will navigate mental health systems. For policy-makers, ... -
An evaluation of a working memory training scheme in older adults.
(2013)Working memory is a cognitive process that is particularly vulnerable to decline with age. The current study sought to evaluate the efficacy of a working memory training scheme in improving memory in a group of older adults. ... -
Functional and structural connectivity of frontostriatal circuitry in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
(2013)Abnormalities in frontostriatal circuitry potentially underlie the two core deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD); social interaction and communication difficulties and restricted interests and repetitive behaviors. ... -
Modulation of human corticospinal excitability by paired associative stimulation.
(2013)Paired Associative Stimulation (PAS) has come to prominence as a potential therapeutic intervention for the treatment of brain injury/disease, and as an experimental method with which to investigate Hebbian principles of ... -
The role of the midcingulate cortex in monitoring others' decisions.
(2013)A plethora of research has implicated the cingulate cortex in the processing of social information (i.e., processing elicited by, about, and directed toward others) and reward-related information that guides decision-making. ...
