School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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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. ... -
Respiratory cycle entrainment of septal neurons mediates the fast coupling of sniffing rate and hippocampal theta rhythm.
(2014)Memory for odour information may result from temporal coupling between the olfactory and hippocampal systems. Respiration defines the frequency of olfactory perception, but how the respiratory rate affects hippocampal ... -
Rehabilitation of Awareness of Deficits in Patients with Acquired Brain Injury: Applying a User-friendly Computerised Intervention Approach
This dissertation consists of three studies that examined the phenomenon of emergent awareness following acquired brain injury. Despite the putative influence that impaired emergent awareness can have on rehabilitation ... -
Attentional load asymmetrically affects early electrophysiological indices of visual orienting.
(2011)Recent behavioral studies suggest that asymmetries in visuospatial orienting are modulated by changes in the demand on nonspatial components of attention, but the brain correlates of this modulation are unknown. We used ... -
Transcranial direct current stimulation over right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex enhances error awareness in older age
(2014)The ability to detect errors during cognitive performance is compromised in older age and in a range of clinical populations. This study was designed to assess the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) ... -
An electrophysiological signal that precisely tracks the emergence of error awareness.
(2012)Recent electrophysiological research has sought to elucidate the neural mechanisms necessary for the conscious awareness of action errors. Much of this work has focused on the error positivity (Pe), a neural signal that ... -
Internal and external influences on the rate of sensory evidence accumulation in the human brain.
(2013)We frequently need to make timely decisions based on sensory evidence that is weak, ambiguous, or noisy resulting from conditions in the external environment (e.g., a cluttered visual scene) or within the brain itself ...
