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Linking time-on-task, spatial bias and hemispheric activation asymmetry: a neural correlate of rightward attention drift.
(2013)Biases of spatial attention may be moderated by non-spatial factors such as attentional load and time-on-task. Although these effects are thought to arise from depletion of right hemisphere processing resources, their ... -
Cognitive function is preserved in older adults with a reported history of childhood sexual abuse
(2013)Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is associated with mood and cognitive deficits in children and young adults. Evidence suggests that the effects of early-life adversity persist throughout adulthood; however, the impact of CSA ... -
Metacognitive and online error awareness deficits after prefrontal cortex lesions
(2013)Awareness of deficits after brain injury represents a significant clinical and theoretical challenge, but relatively little is known about the neuroanatomical correlates of specific types of deficit awareness. We examined ... -
The effects of immunologic brainstem encephalopathy on cognitive function following awakening from a progressive autoimmune coma.
(2013)We describe a unique patient who experienced a progressive autoimmune coma from age 14 to 17. The patient awoke after treatment with immunosuppressant medication. Although alertness, verbalization, and mobilization markedly ... -
Changes in resting connectivity with age: A simultaneous electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation.
(2013)Resting fluctuations in the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal have attracted considerable interest for their sensitivity to pathological brain processes. However, these analyses are susceptible to confound by nonneural ... -
Methylphenidate improves some but not all measures of ATTENTION, as measured by the TEA-Ch in medication-naïve children with ADHD
(2013)The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch) is a reliable neuropsychological assessment of attention control in children. Methylphenidate (MPH) is an effective treatment to improve attentional difficulties in ... -
Cerebellum and cognition: Evidence for the encoding of higher order rules
(2013)Converging anatomical and functional evidence suggests that the cerebellum processes both motor and nonmotor information originating from the primary motor cortex and prefrontal cortex, respectively. However, it has not ... -
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. ... -
Online Counseling: A Narrative and Critical Review of the Literature
(2013)Objective This article aimed to critically review the literature on online counseling. Method Database and hand-searches were made using search terms and eligibility criteria, yielding a total of 123 studies. Res ... -
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 ...