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Thibault N, D'amours S, Albouy P, Grondin S. Musical Expertise Influences the Processing of Short and Long Auditory Time Intervals: An Electroencephalography Study. J Cogn Neurosci 2024; 36:2268-2280. [PMID: 38991139 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/13/2024]
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Musical expertise has been proven to be beneficial for time perception abilities, with musicians outperforming nonmusicians in several explicit timing tasks. However, it is unclear how musical expertise impacts implicit time perception. Twenty nonmusicians and 15 expert musicians participated in an EEG recording during a passive auditory oddball paradigm with 0.8- and 1.6-sec standard time intervals and deviant intervals that were either played earlier or delayed relative to the standard interval. We first confirmed that, as was the case for nonmusicians, musicians use different neurofunctional processes to support the perception of short (below 1.2 sec) and long (above 1.2 sec) time intervals: Whereas deviance detection for long intervals elicited a N1 component, P2 was associated with deviance detection for short time intervals. Interestingly, musicians did not elicit a contingent negative variation (CNV) for longer intervals but show additional components of deviance detection such as (i) an attention-related N1 component, even for deviants occurring during short intervals; (ii) a N2 component for above and below 1.2-sec deviance detection, and (iii) a P2 component for above 1.2-sec deviance detection. We propose that the N2 component is a marker of explicit deviance detection and acts as an inhibitory/conflict monitoring of the deviance. This hypothesis was supported by a positive correlation between CNV and N2 amplitudes: The CNV reflects the temporal accumulator and can predict explicit detection of the deviance. In expert musicians, a N2 component is observable without CNV, suggesting that deviance detection is optimized and does not require the temporal accumulator. Overall, this study suggests that musical expertise is associated with optimized implicit time perception.
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- Nicola Thibault
- Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- CERVO Brain Research Centre, Québec, Canada
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- Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- CERVO Brain Research Centre, Québec, Canada
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- Université Laval, Québec, Canada
- CERVO Brain Research Centre, Québec, Canada
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Ger E, Roebers CM. Monitoring and control processes within executive functions: Is post-error slowing related to pre-error speeding in children? J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 246:105975. [PMID: 38852401 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2023] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/28/2024] [Indexed: 06/11/2024]
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Both pre-error speeding and post-error slowing reflect monitoring and control strategies. Post-error slowing is relatively well-established in children, whereas pre-error speeding is much less studied. Here we investigated (a) whether kindergarten and first-grade children show pre-error speeding in a cognitive control task (Hearts and Flowers) and, if so, (b) whether post-error slowing is associated with pre-error speeding. We analyzed the data from 153 kindergartners and 468 first-graders. Both kindergartners and first-graders showed significant pre-error speeding and post-error slowing, with no differences between the two samples in the magnitude of each. The magnitude of pre-error speeding and post-error slowing was correlated within individuals in both samples and to a similar extent. That is, children who sped up more extremely toward an error also slowed down more extremely after an error. These findings provide evidence that pre-error speeding and post-error slowing are related in children as early as kindergarten age and may in concert reflect how optimal children's monitoring and control of their performance is in a cognitive control task.
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- Ebru Ger
- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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Husain W, Kiran A, Qasim U, Gul S, Iftikhar J. Measuring Sexual Intelligence for Evaluating Sexual Health. Psychol Rep 2024; 127:2608-2630. [PMID: 36640115 DOI: 10.1177/00332941231152388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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The current paper reports four consecutive studies that were conducted to link sexual health with a new construct of sexual intelligence by developing and validating a new scale to measure sexual intelligence. Sexual intelligence was defined as "the ability to perceive, understand and respond to sexual needs and desires in a personal and social context." Sexual Intelligence Scale (SIS), comprising of 8 items in English and 2 factors (sexual knowledge & sexual behavior), was developed and validated by involving 959 respondents in the process of 4 consecutive studies. The validity of SIS was tested step by step for its face, content, factorial, convergent, discriminant, and predictive validities. The reliability was measured through internal consistency and item-total & item-scale correlations. The study found significantly higher levels of sexual intelligence in men as compared to women. Sexual intelligence, moreover, had significant positive correlations with age, education, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, sexual health, and satisfaction with life. Sexual health was linked with sexual intelligence and the SIS was accepted as a reliable and valid tool to measure sexual intelligence.
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- Waqar Husain
- Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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- Department of Humanities, COMSATS University, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Lee YJ, Na J, Kim BK. Age, Gender and One's Perception of Discrimination Against Men Versus Women in Korea. Psychol Rep 2024; 127:2347-2367. [PMID: 36572591 DOI: 10.1177/00332941221149175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2024]
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The present research investigated whether and (if so) how one's perception of gender discrimination would vary as a function of age and gender in Korea. Since gender-related conflicts have escalated in Korea especially among younger adults, we predicted that (1) there would be gender differences in one's perception of gender discrimination in Korea and (2) such differences would be particularly large among younger adults. Consistent with the predictions, we found that Korean men underestimated discrimination against women and overestimated discrimination against men, relative to Korean women. Also, such tendency was more pronounced among younger men than among older men without significant differences in sexism between them. Moreover, young men claimed that men were at least as discriminated against as women in Korea unlike other groups who believed that discrimination against women was larger than discrimination against men. Our data also suggest that such perception of gender discrimination among younger Korean men is possibly due to their beliefs that social atmosphere in Korea is disadvantageous to their gender. We further showed that gender differences in perception of gender discrimination were associated with corresponding differences in emotional reactions (i.e., anger) to gender discrimination.
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- Yeon Jung Lee
- Department of Psychology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- Department of Psychology, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea
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- School of Business, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
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Dahl RE, Armstrong-Carter E, van den Bos W. Wanting to matter and learning to care: A neurodevelopmental window of opportunity for (Pro) social learning? Dev Cogn Neurosci 2024; 69:101430. [PMID: 39151254 PMCID: PMC11377138 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101430] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2024] [Revised: 07/26/2024] [Accepted: 08/03/2024] [Indexed: 08/19/2024] Open
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Wanting to matter-to feel socially recognized, appreciated, and capable of actions that benefit others-represents a fundamental motivation in human development. The motivational salience of mattering appears to increase in adolescence. Evidence suggests this is related to pubertal increases in the incentive salience for gaining social value and personal agency. This can provide a useful heuristic for understanding motivational proclivities (i.e. wanting to matter) that influence action-outcome learning as young adolescents are exploring and learning how to navigate increasingly complex social and relational environments. Adolescence also brings new capacities, motives, and opportunities for learning to care about and contribute to the benefit of others. Together, these create a window of opportunity: a sensitive period for learning to gain salient feelings of mattering through caring prosocial actions and valued societal contributions. Successfully discovering ways of mattering by doing things that matter to others may contribute to formative socio-emotional learning about self/other. Advances in understanding these social and relational learning processes and their neurodevelopmental underpinnings can inform strategies to improve developmental trajectories of social competence and wellbeing among adolescents growing up in a rapidly changing and increasingly techno-centric world.
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- Ronald E Dahl
- School of Public Health, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, United States.
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Stringer C, Cooley F, Saunders E, Emmorey K, Schotter ER. Deaf readers use leftward information to read more efficiently: Evidence from eye tracking. Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 2024; 77:2098-2110. [PMID: 38326329 DOI: 10.1177/17470218241232407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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Little is known about how information to the left of fixation impacts reading and how it may help to integrate what has been read into the context of the sentence. To better understand the role of this leftward information and how it may be beneficial during reading, we compared the sizes of the leftward span for reading-matched deaf signers (n = 32) and hearing adults (n = 40) using a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm with windows of 1, 4, 7, 10, and 13 characters to the left, as well as a no-window condition. All deaf participants were prelingually and profoundly deaf, used American Sign Language (ASL) as a primary means of communication, and were exposed to ASL before age eight. Analysis of reading rates indicated that deaf readers had a leftward span of 10 characters, compared to four characters for hearing readers, and the size of the span was positively related to reading comprehension ability for deaf but not hearing readers. These findings suggest that deaf readers may engage in continued word processing of information obtained to the left of fixation, making reading more efficient, and showing a qualitatively different reading process than hearing readers.
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- Casey Stringer
- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
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Stuart NS, Wen JH, Klaiber P, Puterman E, DeLongis A, Sin NL. Stressors and Subjective Cognition in Daily Life: Tests of Physical Activity and Age as Moderators. Psychosom Med 2024; 86:681-689. [PMID: 39132947 DOI: 10.1097/psy.0000000000001338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/13/2024]
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OBJECTIVE Growing research indicates that daily stress is associated with poorer same-day cognitive performance, for example, memory and attention. However, it is unclear whether this relationship holds across diverse ages and engagement in physical activity (PA), or whether these factors might buffer the relationship between daily stress and subjective cognitive function. METHODS Ecological momentary assessment data were collected from adults aged 25 to 88 years across British Columbia, Canada. For 14 days, participants ( N = 204) wore a triaxial physical activity monitor, reported stressor occurrence in mobile surveys four times per day, and rated their subjective attention and memory at the end of each day. RESULTS Multilevel models evaluated daily stressor occurrence as a predictor of subjective attention and memory, with same-day PA engagement and age as moderators. Subjective attention and memory were lower on days when a stressor had occurred, compared to stressor-free days. Neither PA nor age moderated the within-person associations of daily stressors with subjective cognition. CONCLUSION The lack of stress-buffering effects for same-day PA and age raises questions about the contexts in which PA promotes cognitive functioning and about age-related processes underlying stress and cognition. Future work could examine the mechanisms that might explain the link between daily stress and cognition function, as well as the associations of different intensity and forms of physical activity on stress across age groups.
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- Nicole S Stuart
- From the Department of Psychology (Stuart, Wen, DeLongis, Sin), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Department of Developmental Psychology (Klaiber), Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands; and School of Kinesiology (Puterman), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Chen X, Chen Y, Yu X, Wei J, Yang X. The impact of family socioeconomic status on parental involvement and student engagement during COVID-19 in promoting academic achievement: A longitudinal study in Chinese children. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 246:105992. [PMID: 38917685 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2023] [Revised: 05/05/2024] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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With a three-wave longitudinal design, the current study examined the impact of family socioeconomic status (SES) on parental involvement and student engagement in promoting children's academic achievement during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We recruited data from 246 mother-primary school student dyads, and the mean age of children at Wave 1 was 10.57 ± 0.97 years (range = 9-13 years). The academic achievement of these children was measured both before and after school closures. Family SES, parental involvement, and student engagement were assessed during the school closures. The results indicated that family SES could predict children's later academic achievement after accounting for their prior academic achievement and other demographics (i.e., the significant total effect in the model). Moreover, parental involvement and student engagement played chain-mediating roles in the effect of family SES on children's later academic achievement. Neither parent involvement nor student involvement alone mediated the relationships between family SES and subsequent academic achievement. Suggestions are provided to minimize the negative impact of low family SES on children's academic achievement during pandemics.
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- Xin Chen
- Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
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- Institute of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
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Yu P, Cheng M, Wang N, Wu C, Qiang K. Pubertal maternal presence reduces anxiety and increases adult neurogenesis in Kunming mice offspring. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2024; 243:173839. [PMID: 39079561 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2024.173839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2024] [Revised: 07/20/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024]
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Puberty is a critical period of emotional development and neuroplasticity. However, most studies have focused on early development, with limited research on puberty, particularly the parental presence. In this study, four groups were established, and pubertal maternal presence (PMP) was assessed until postnatal days 21 (PD21), 28 (PD28), 35 (PD35), and 42 (PD42), respectively. The social interaction and anxiety behaviors, as well as the expression of oxytocin (OT) in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) and supraoptic nucleus (SON), and the number of new generated neurons and the expression of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) in the dentate gyrus (DG) were assessed. The results suggest that there is a lot of physical contact between the mother and offspring from 21 to 42 days of age, which reduces anxiety in both female and male offspring in adulthood; for example, the PMP increased the amount of time mice spent in the center area in the open field experiment and in the bright area in the light-dark box experiment. PMP increased OT expression in the PVN and SON and the number of newly generated neurons in the DG. However, there was a sexual difference in ERα, with ERα increasing in females but decreasing in males. In conclusion, PMP reduces the anxiety of offspring in adulthood, increases OT in the PVN and SON, and adult neurogenesis; ERα in the DG may be involved in this process.
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- Peng Yu
- Institute of Behavioral and Physical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China.
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- Institute of Behavioral and Physical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
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- College of Life and Geographic Sciences, Kashi University, Kashi 844099, Xinjiang, China
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- Institute of Behavioral and Physical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
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- Institute of Behavioral and Physical Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, Gansu, China
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Aarons GA, Sklar M, Ehrhart MG, Roesch S, Moullin JC, Carandang K. Randomized trial of the leadership and organizational change for implementation (LOCI) strategy in substance use treatment clinics. JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE USE AND ADDICTION TREATMENT 2024; 165:209437. [PMID: 38866139 DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2024.209437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2024] [Revised: 04/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/14/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Evidence-based practice (EBP) implementation represents a strategic change that requires alignment of leadership and support throughout organizations. Leadership and Organizational Change for Implementation (LOCI) is a multifaceted implementation strategy that aims to improve implementation leadership and climate within organizations through iterative cycles of leadership and climate assessment and feedback, leadership training and coaching, and strategic planning with upper-level leaders. This study tested the effects of LOCI on transformational and implementation leadership, implementation climate, implementation citizenship behavior, and EBP reach. METHODS A multiple cohort, cluster randomized trial tests the effect of LOCI in 60 clinics across nine behavioral health organizations in California and Arizona, USA. The study randomized clinics within organizations to either LOCI or a leadership training webinar control condition in three consecutive cohorts. Repeated web-based surveys of direct service providers (nLOCI = 201, nControl = 179) assessed leadership, implementation climate, and implementation citizenship over time. Multilevel autoregressive modeling was the primary statistical analysis such that providers (level-1) were nested within clinics (level-2). The study predicted between-condition differences at 4-, 8-, and 12-month follow-up assessments. Provider engagement in a fidelity monitoring process assessed reach of motivational interviewing (i.e., number of sessions recorded/submitted for fidelity coding). An independent sample t-test explored between condition differences in motivational interviewing reach. RESULTS Results indicated between condition differences at 4 months for implementation leadership, implementation climate, and implementation citizenship behavior such that greater improvements were evidenced in the LOCI condition compared to the control condition. Reach of MI was significantly greater in the LOCI vs control condition such that LOCI providers were significantly more likely to engage in the fidelity monitoring process (chi-square (1, n = 370) = 5.59, p = .018). CONCLUSIONS LOCI was developed based on organizational theories of strategic leadership and climate to affect organizational change processes that communicate that innovation implementation is expected, supported, and recognized as a value of the organization. The LOCI implementation strategy resulted in more positive hypothesized outcomes compared to the control condition. Organizational change strategies have utility for implementing health innovations in complex, multilevel contexts and for greater sustainment of facilitative leader behaviors, strategic implementation climate, and improved implementation outcomes. TRIAL REGISTRATION This study is registered with Clinicaltrials.gov gov (NCT03042832, 2 February 2017; retrospectively registered).
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- Gregory A Aarons
- University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 9500 Gilman Drive (0812), La Jolla, CA 92093-0812, United States of America; UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America; Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, 3665 Kearny Villa Rd., Suite 200N, San Diego, CA 92123, United States of America.
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- University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 9500 Gilman Drive (0812), La Jolla, CA 92093-0812, United States of America; UC San Diego Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States of America; Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, 3665 Kearny Villa Rd., Suite 200N, San Diego, CA 92123, United States of America.
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- University of Central Florida, Department of Psychology, United States of America.
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- San Diego State University, Department of Psychology, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-4611, United States of America.
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- Curtin University, School of Population Health, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia
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- University of California San Diego, Department of Psychiatry, 9500 Gilman Drive (0812), La Jolla, CA 92093-0812, United States of America; Child and Adolescent Services Research Center, 3665 Kearny Villa Rd., Suite 200N, San Diego, CA 92123, United States of America
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Ambrens M, Macniven R, Perram A, Andrews S, Hawley-Hague H, Razee H, Todd C, Valenzuela T, Delbaere K. How Perceptions of Aging Influence Physical Activity and Exercise in Older Age: Exploring the Behavior of People Aged 70+ Years Engaged in Fall Prevention Activities. J Appl Gerontol 2024; 43:1386-1396. [PMID: 38475694 DOI: 10.1177/07334648241238315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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For older people, physical inactivity increases fall risk as well as other preventable health conditions. Despite the well-documented benefits of physical activity, uptake and adherence continue to challenge efforts aimed at increasing physical activity and reducing falls. Nested within a randomized controlled trial, this study reports on the factors influencing the physical activity behavior of people, aged between 70 and 90 years, engaged in StandingTall, a home-based balance exercise program proven to reduce falls in the community. The perception of aging, physical activity in older age, and the delivery of exercise were identified as major themes, with the perception of aging an overarching theme influencing both preferences for physical activity in older age and exercise delivery. Findings demonstrate the importance of considering the role of aging, the influence aging has on physical activity and exercise behavior, and how aging influences the delivery and design of exercise programs including falls prevention activities for older people.
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- Meghan Ambrens
- Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, NSW, Australia
- School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, NSW, Australia
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, NSW, Australia
- Thompson Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia
- School of Psychology, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, The University of Manchester, UK
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- School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- School of Health Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, The University of Manchester, UK
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
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- Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences Laboratory, School of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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- Neuroscience Research Australia, Randwick, NSW, Australia
- School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Carriedo N, Rodríguez-Villagra OA, Pérez L, Iglesias-Sarmiento V. Executive functioning profiles and mathematical and reading achievement in Grades 2, 6, and 10. J Sch Psychol 2024; 106:101353. [PMID: 39251311 DOI: 10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2023] [Revised: 07/19/2024] [Accepted: 07/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/11/2024]
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Using a person-centered approach, we aimed to identify different executive functioning profiles to assess heterogeneity across individuals within the same school grade through latent profile analysis. A sample of 150 Grade 2 (7-8 years old), 150 Grade 6 (11-12 years old), and 150 Grade 10 (15-16 years old) children and adolescents were assessed on 11 different executive tasks representative of the three main executive functioning subcomponents (i.e., inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory), fluid intelligence, processing speed, problem-solving, and reading comprehension. Three different executive functioning profiles of different patterns of interactions based on inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and working memory within and between grades were identified. Moreover, these profiles were differentially related to reading comprehension and mathematical achievement. Second, as expected, we did not find these profiles to be associated with sociodemographic variables such as chronological age or sex. Still, fluid intelligence and processing speed were differentially related to the different profiles at each grade. We also found that the executive functioning profiles interacted with each cognitive skill (i.e., fluid intelligence and processing speed) in predicting reading comprehension and math achievement. These findings provide valuable insights for developing preventive and intervention strategies in education.
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- Institute for Psychological Research, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica; Neuroscience Research Center, University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
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Hofmann W, Grelle S, Nielsen KS, Kukowski CA. Self-control and behavioral public policy. Curr Opin Psychol 2024; 59:101873. [PMID: 39241277 DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2024.101873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2024] [Revised: 08/15/2024] [Accepted: 08/19/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024]
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How everyday self-control conflicts are resolved can have significant long-term personal and societal consequences, as readily illustrated by obesity, smoking, and unsustainable consumption. Here, we delineate connections between current self-control research and policymaking. We first discuss the achievements and shortcomings of the prevailing individual-level focus in self-control research. Next, we propose a multilevel perspective that incorporates structural factors operating at the micro, meso, and macro levels as the root cause of many issues framed as self-control problems. We then introduce a comprehensive framework (4LP) synthesizing four key levers for public policymaking. We conclude that future policy research may benefit from closer, interdisciplinary collaboration to better represent the complex interplay between individual agency and structural factors regarding self-control outcomes.
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- Wilhelm Hofmann
- Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Partner Site Bochum, Marburg.
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- Department of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Management, Society and Communication, Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Purushothaman Nair RK, Mengi N, Jose SA. Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies into Family Systems: A Conceptual Framework Evaluating Family Health. SOCIAL WORK 2024; 69:356-366. [PMID: 39059787 DOI: 10.1093/sw/swae033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 03/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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As the world undergoes its fourth industrial revolution, digital media are becoming more prevalent in both rural and urban communities. This shift has had a profound impact on our daily lives, transforming the way we live, work, and communicate. Although technology now plays a crucial role in our daily routine, it can lead to interference in human relationships, a phenomenon referred to as technoference. This interference has significant consequences, particularly in parent-child relationships, as it can adversely affect children's emotional and behavioral development and the mental health and overall functioning of parents. Thus, for children to grow up healthy and for families to be harmoniously balanced, all the family subsystems need to be aligned in a healthy manner. This study conceptualizes how family health is affected when technological devices are brought as a subsystem into a family system. The researchers developed a conceptual multidimensional framework based on several interrelated theoretical concepts, and this framework is presented in three sequential frames for better comprehension, to identify how the interference, in particular, impacts the various dimensions of a healthy family system and contributes to dysfunctional family functioning and mental health issues in both parents and children.
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- Remesh Krishnan Purushothaman Nair
- Remesh Krishnan Purushothaman Nair, MPhil, is a PhD scholar, Department of Social Work, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu & Kashmir 181143, India
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- Nancy Mengi, PhD, is associate professor and head, Department of Social Work, Central University of Jammu, Samba, Jammu & Kashmir, India
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- Santhosh Adhikarathil Jose, MPhil, is a PhD scholar, Department of Counseling and Human Services, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, TX, USA
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Anunciação L, Cito L, Pessoa L, Squires J, Murphy K, Landeira-Fernandez J. Lack of voluntary interest and difficulty making eye contact are the most discriminative behaviors of the ASQ:SE and might suggest delays: Results from a large-scale assessment. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. CHILD 2024; 13:283-291. [PMID: 36630258 DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2022.2156795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Every child is unique, but development tends to occur in predictable steps and stages. The early identification of infants who face developmental delays is critical, boosting the use of screening tools to determine risks for delays. The city of Rio de Janeiro conducted a large-scale assessment of children who were enrolled in educational facilities using the Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional (ASQ:SE). OBJECTIVES We examined the internal structure of the ASQ:SE and its most discriminative items of risks of delays in development among 12- to 60-month-old children. The trajectory of the discrimination parameter of eight anchor items was used to check how well they inform the risk of social-emotional competence delays throughout development. METHODS Data from 79,332 children (1-5 years) were analyzed via Samejima Graded Response model of Item Response Theory (IRT). The discrimination (a) and threshold (b) parameters were computed, and errors were achieved via maximum likelihood. Data/codes are available at https://osf.io/by6sf/. RESULTS (a) Item Response Theory analyses supported the unidimensionality of data via the root mean square error of approximation and standardized root mean square residual results (RMSEA). (b) The lack of voluntary interest was the most discriminative risk behavior in the first 5 years. (c) Lack of interest was the most persistent risk behavior. (d) Difficulty making eye contact was nearly as informative as lack of interest. CONCLUSION Lack of voluntary interest in things should be considered a critical risk-related behavior, and making eye contact is a vital aspect of typical development. Both behaviors may be predictors of children's delays.MAIN OUTCOMESThe ASQ:SE is a valid and reliable tool to measure child development.The internal structure of the ASQ:SE is well-fitted with a unidimensional solution.A child's age is a vital aspect of the discrimination parameter of the IRT model.Lack of interest in things and difficulty making eye contact are critical risk-related behaviors.
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- Luis Anunciação
- Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Le Clainche C, Marsaudon A, Rochaix L, Haon B, Vergnaud JC. Do Behavioral Characteristics Influence the Breast Cancer Diagnosis Delay? Evidence From French Retrospective Data. VALUE IN HEALTH : THE JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PHARMACOECONOMICS AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH 2024; 27:1408-1416. [PMID: 38977186 DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2023] [Revised: 05/21/2024] [Accepted: 06/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to analyze the behavioral determinants of breast cancer (BC) diagnosis delays in France. To do so, we investigated whether time discounting, risk tolerance, and personality traits influenced the BC diagnosis delay of patients. METHODS We used original retrospective data collected on 2 large online patient networks from 402 women diagnosed of BC. The BC diagnosis delay was measured by the difference between the date of diagnosis and the date of first symptoms. Time discounting and risk tolerance are measured with both self-reported questions and hypothetical lotteries. Personality traits are measured with the 10-item Big Five indicator. Ordinary least square and probit models were used to analyze whether these behavioral characteristics influenced the BC diagnosis delay. RESULTS Results showed that risk tolerance and time discounting were not significantly associated with the BC diagnosis delay. However, we found a longer diagnosis delay for women with a neuroticism personality trait (standardized coefficients ranged from 0.104 [P-value = .036] to 0.090 [P-value = .065]). CONCLUSIONS Overall, our findings underline the need for an increased consideration of cancer screening public health policy for women with mental vulnerabilities since such vulnerabilities were found to be highly correlated with a neuroticism personality trait.
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- Christine Le Clainche
- CNRS, IESEG School of Management, UMR 9221 - LEM - Lille Economie Management, Lille University, Lille, France.
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- Institute for Research and Information in Health Economics (Irdes), Paris, France
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- Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Hospinnomics (Greater Paris University Hospitals and Paris School of Economics Research Chair), Paris, France
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- Hospinnomics (Greater Paris University Hospitals and Paris School of Economics Research Chair), Paris, France
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Guisado-Cuadrado I, Romero-Parra N, Elliott-Sale KJ, Sale C, Díaz ÁE, Peinado AB. Influence of Menstrual Cycle and Oral Contraceptive Phases on Bone (re)modelling Markers in Response to Interval Running. Calcif Tissue Int 2024; 115:382-392. [PMID: 39066926 PMCID: PMC11405431 DOI: 10.1007/s00223-024-01259-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2024] [Accepted: 07/15/2024] [Indexed: 07/30/2024]
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To explore how sex hormone fluctuations may affect bone metabolism, this study aimed to examine P1NP and β-CTX-1 concentrations across the menstrual and oral contraceptive (OC) cycle phases in response to running. 17β-oestradiol, progesterone, P1NP and β-CTX-1 were analysed pre- and post-exercise in eight eumenorrheic females in the early-follicular, late-follicular, and mid-luteal phases, while 8 OC users were evaluated during the withdrawal and active pill-taking phases. The running protocol consisted of 8 × 3min treadmill runs at 85% of maximal aerobic speed. 17β-oestradiol concentrations (pg·ml-1) were lower in early-follicular (47.22 ± 39.75) compared to late-follicular (304.95 ± 235.85;p = < 0.001) and mid-luteal phase (165.56 ± 80.6;p = 0.003) and higher in withdrawal (46.51 ± 44.09) compared to active pill-taking phase (10.88 ± 11.24;p < 0.001). Progesterone (ng·ml-1) was higher in mid-luteal (13.214 ± 4.926) compared to early-follicular (0.521 ± 0.365; p < 0.001) and late-follicular phase (1.677 ± 2.586;p < 0.001). In eumenorrheic females, P1NP concentrations (ng·ml-1) were higher in late-follicular (69.97 ± 17.84) compared to early-follicular (60.96 ± 16.64;p = 0.006;) and mid-luteal phase (59.122 ± 11.77;p = 0.002). β-CTX-1 concentrations (ng·ml-1) were lower in mid-luteal (0.376 ± 0.098) compared to late-follicular (0.496 ± 0.166; p = 0.001) and early-follicular phase (0.452 ± 0.148; p = 0.039). OC users showed higher post-exercise P1NP concentrations in withdrawal phase (61.75 ± 8.32) compared to post-exercise in active pill-taking phase (45.45 ± 6;p < 0.001). Comparing hormonal profiles, post-exercise P1NP concentrations were higher in early-follicular (66.91 ± 16.26;p < 0.001), late-follicular (80.66 ± 16.35;p < 0.001) and mid-luteal phases (64.57 ± 9.68;p = 0.002) to active pill-taking phase. These findings underscore the importance of studying exercising females with different ovarian hormone profiles, as changes in sex hormone concentrations affect bone metabolism in response to running, showing a higher post-exercise P1NP concentrations in all menstrual cycle phases compared with active pill-taking phase of the OC cycle.
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- Isabel Guisado-Cuadrado
- LFE Research Group, Department of Health and Human Performance. Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle de Martín Fierro, 7, 28040, Madrid, Spain.
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- LFE Research Group, Department of Health and Human Performance. Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle de Martín Fierro, 7, 28040, Madrid, Spain
- Department of Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine. Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Alcorcón, Spain
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- Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, UK
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- Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, Manchester, UK
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- Laboratorio Clínico. S.G. Ciencias del Deporte. Consejo Superior de Deportes, Madrid, Spain
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- LFE Research Group, Department of Health and Human Performance. Faculty of Physical Activity and Sport Science, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Calle de Martín Fierro, 7, 28040, Madrid, Spain
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Freemantle AWJ, Stafford LD. The relationship between social odour awareness and emotional contagion susceptibility in females. Perception 2024; 53:704-715. [PMID: 39135380 DOI: 10.1177/03010066241270209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2024]
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Previous research has shown a strong link between our sense of smell and emotion. More recently, the importance we attach to olfaction has been found to relate to our susceptibility to 'catch' the emotions of others. We explore this further by examining the relation between a newly developed measure of olfaction (social odour scale, SOS), which measures awareness of social odours, and emotional contagion susceptibility in female participants. The study therefore aimed to test the strength of this relationship and also help validate the English language version of the SOS. Female (n = 148) participants completed an online study that measured odour awareness [SOS; important of odour questionnaire, IOQ] and emotional contagion (EC). We found that the English version of the SOS yielded high reliability and supported the previous factor structure of the scale; additionally, we demonstrated a strong association between the SOS and IOQ which provides criterion validity for its usage. The study also revealed that whilst both the SOS and IOQ were positively associated with EC, the SOS was the more accurate predictor. These findings provide further validation for the use of the SOS and suggest that our subjective awareness of olfaction, especially concerning 'social odours' is an accurate predictor of emotional contagion.
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Karhu J, Veijola J, Hintsanen M. The bidirectional relationships of optimism and pessimism with depressive symptoms in adulthood - A 15-year follow-up study from Northern Finland Birth Cohorts. J Affect Disord 2024; 362:468-476. [PMID: 39013521 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.07.049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2024] [Revised: 06/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/12/2024] [Indexed: 07/18/2024]
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BACKGROUND Low optimism and high pessimism have predicted depressive symptoms in several studies, but the associations in the other direction, from depressive symptoms to future optimism and pessimism, have been unexplored. We examined bidirectional associations of optimism and pessimism with depressive symptoms in adulthood. METHODS A population-based sample of 4011 Finnish adults (55 % women) was analyzed with a 15-year prospective follow-up period from age 31 to age 46. Optimism and pessimism were measured with the Life Orientation Test-Revised, and depressive symptoms were measured with the Symptom Checklist-25. Temporal associations were investigated with cross-lagged panel models. RESULTS According to the model fit indices (RMSEA < 0.04, CFI ≥ 0.97) optimism and pessimism had bidirectional relationships with depressive symptoms: optimism predicted lower depressive symptoms (β = -0.09, p < .001), and depressive symptoms predicted lower optimism (β = -0.10, p < .001) in the follow-up. Also, pessimism predicted higher depressive symptoms (β = 0.08, p < .001), and depressive symptoms predicted higher pessimism (β = 0.09, p < .001) in the follow-up. In the participants with clinically high depressive symptoms at age 31, the predictive associations from optimism and pessimism to depressive symptoms remained, but associations in the other direction were attenuated. LIMITATIONS The follow-up study included only two time points with a 15-year time gap, which does not consider the possible fluctuation in the study variables between the measured times. CONCLUSION Dispositional optimism and pessimism may have bidirectional relationships with depressive symptoms in adulthood when the baseline depressive symptoms are below the clinical level.
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- Jutta Karhu
- Unit of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 2000 (Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 1), 90014 Oulu, Finland.
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- Research Unit of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, 90014 Oulu, Finland; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland; Medical Research Center, University of Oulu & University Hospital of Oulu, 90220 Oulu, Finland.
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- Unit of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 2000 (Erkki Koiso-Kanttilan katu 1), 90014 Oulu, Finland.
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Andrade V, Carver NS, Grover FM, Bonnette S, Silva PL. The Amount and Pattern of Reciprocal Compensations Predict Performance Stability in a Visually Guided Finger Force Production Task. Motor Control 2024; 28:391-412. [PMID: 38901830 DOI: 10.1123/mc.2023-0101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2024] [Accepted: 04/16/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024]
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Previous work suggests that synergistic activity among motor elements implicated in force production tasks underlies enhanced performance stability associated with visual feedback. A hallmark of synergistic activity is reciprocal compensation, that is, covariation in the states of motor elements that stabilizes critical performance variables. The present study examined if characteristics of reciprocal compensation are indicators of individuals' capacity to respond adaptively to variations in the resolution of visual feedback about criterion performance. Twenty healthy adults (19.25 ± 1.25 years; 15 females and five males) pressed two sensors with their index fingers to produce a total target force equivalent to 20% of their maximal voluntary contraction under nine conditions that differed in the spatial resolution of real-time feedback about their performance. By combining within-trial uncontrolled manifold and sample entropy analyses, we quantified the amount and degree of irregularity (i.e., non-repetitiveness) of reciprocal compensations over time. We found a U-shaped relationship between performance stability and gain. Importantly, this relationship was moderated by the degree of irregularity of reciprocal compensation. Lower irregularity in reciprocal compensation patterns was related to individuals' capacity to maintain (or minimize losses in) performance under changes in feedback resolution. Results invite future investigation into how interindividual variations in reciprocal compensation patterns relate to differences in control strategies supporting adaptive responses in complex, visually guided motor tasks.
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- Valéria Andrade
- Department of Psychology, Center for Cognition, Action, & Perception, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Cognition, Action, & Perception, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Sports Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Center for Cognition, Action, & Perception, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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Cho D, Wang C, Pierce J, Dawkins-Moultin L, Lu Q. Preliminary efficacy of a tailored narrative intervention to increase human papillomavirus vaccination intention among a multi-ethnic sample of female students. JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH : J OF ACH 2024; 72:2054-2061. [PMID: 35981315 DOI: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2103372] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2021] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Objective. We investigated the preliminary efficacy of a tailored human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination on-line intervention designed to increase HPV vaccination intention. Participants. Female college students (N = 101; 18-26 years), who have not received the HPV vaccine. Methods. Participants were randomized to either a control group to read standard Center for Disease Control information or a narrative intervention group to read two narrative messages about HPV/HPV vaccination that were tailored based on the individual's sexual history and told from the perspectives from a peer and an expert. Participants were assessed at baseline (T1) and immediately after the intervention (T2). Results. The narrative intervention group reported a greater increase from T1 to T2 in vaccination intention compared with control group. Both groups reported increases in knowledge, positive attitude, self-efficacy, social norm, and perceived susceptibility to HPV from T1 to T2. Conclusions. A narrative intervention is promising to effectively increase HPV vaccination intention.
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- Dalnim Cho
- Department of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Çiriş Yildiz C, Değirmenci Öz S, Yilmaz Kuşakli B, Korkmaz I. The Relationship Between Work Environment and Missed Nursing Care in Nurses: The Moderator Role of Profession Self-Efficacy. J Patient Saf 2024; 20:522-527. [PMID: 39190334 DOI: 10.1097/pts.0000000000001266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/28/2024]
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AIMS This study aimed to examine the relationship between work environment and missed nursing care (MNC) in nurses and determine whether profession self-efficacy has a moderator role in this relationship. DESIGN A quantitative, cross-sectional, correlational study design was used to test the study model. METHODS The study was conducted with 433 nurses in 2 city hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. Data were collected between November 2022 and February 2023 using the "MISSCARE Survey-Turkish," the "Work Environment Scale," and the "Nursing Profession Self-Efficacy Scale." RESULTS The participants had a mean Nursing Profession Self-Efficacy Scale score of 66.67 ± 14.37, a mean Work Environment Scale score of 84.96 ± 13.62, a mean elements of MNC score of 1.30 ± 0.73, and a mean reason for MNC score of 3.18 ± 0.78. Nursing profession self-efficacy was determined to be positively related to the work environment of the participants and their reasons for MNC (respectively, r = 0.276 and r = 0.114) and negatively related to elements of MNC ( r = -0.216) ( P < 0.05). There was also a negative relationship between the work environment and elements of MNC ( r = -0.249; P < 0.05). Profession self-efficacy had a significant moderator role in the relationship between the work environment and elements of MNC. Having low or moderate levels of profession self-efficacy moderated the negative effects of the work environment on elements of MNC. CONCLUSIONS There is a need for interventions to reduce elements of missed nursing care in nurses. Especially nurses and/or nurse managers may have difficulties in improving their work environment, considering its multifaceted structure. In such cases, administrators can reduce missed nursing care by increasing the profession self-efficacy of nurses. Therefore, profession self-efficacy should be considered in addition to interventions for the work environment to improve care.
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- Cennet Çiriş Yildiz
- From the Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey
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- Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Esenyurt University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Emergency Service, Istanbul Prof. Dr. Cemi̇l Taşçıoğlu City Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Desbuleux JC, Fuss J. The Self-Reported Sexual Real-World Consequences of Sex Doll Use. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH 2024; 61:1261-1275. [PMID: 37074356 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2199727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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It is a growing concern that the use of sex dolls and robots could affect human sexuality. This concern has led to a ban of child-like sex dolls in several countries and a call to ban adult-like sex dolls and robots by some scholars. However, empirical data is largely missing supporting this claim. Here, we present retrospective self-reported quantitative and qualitative data of a large sample (N = 224, 90.5% men, Mean age = 31 years, SD = 14.2) of teleiophilic (i.e., sexual orientation toward adults) and pedo-hebephilic participants. Using an online survey, we found that users reported an overall reduction in sexuality-related behaviors (e.g., porn consumption or visiting of sex workers) in response to doll ownership. Users in a relationship with a human were less affected by doll use, while those in a relationship with a doll reported greater effects. Interestingly, pedo-hebephilic users reported a greater reduction of sexual compulsivity compared to teleiophilic participants following doll use. Additionally, pedo-hebephilic participants more often reported acting out of illegal sexual fantasies with their dolls and a loss of interest in (sexual) intimacy with real children through doll use in the qualitative data. These self-reported data challenge the view that doll use is dangerously affecting human sexuality and instead suggest that dolls may be used as a sexual outlet for potentially dangerous and illegal (sexual) fantasies.
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- Jeanne C Desbuleux
- Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen
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- Institute of Forensic Psychiatry and Sex Research, Center for Translational Neuro- and Behavioral Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen
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Weiland S, Jansen DEMC, Groen H, de Jong DR, Erwich JJHM, Berger MY, Hoek A, Peters LL. Does social need fulfillment moderate the association between socioeconomic status and health risk behaviours during pregnancy? Eur J Public Health 2024; 34:929-935. [PMID: 38894504 PMCID: PMC11431046 DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2024] Open
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Socioeconomic differences in health risk behaviours during pregnancy may be influenced by social relations. In this study, we aimed to investigate if social need fulfillment moderates the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health risk behaviours (smoking and/or alcohol consumption) during pregnancy. We used baseline data from the Lifelines Cohort Study merged with data from the Lifelines Reproductive Origin of Adult Health and Disease (ROAHD) cohort. Education level was used to determine SES, categorized into low, middle, and high, with middle SES as the reference category. Social need fulfillment was taken as indicator for social relations and was measured with the validated Social Production Function Instrument for the Level of Well-being scale. The dependent variable was smoking and/or alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Univariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis was conducted to assess the association of SES and social need fulfillment with health risk behaviours and to test for effect modification. We included 1107 pregnant women. The results showed that women with a high SES had statistically significantly lower odds of health risk behaviours during pregnancy. The interaction effect between SES and social need fulfillment on health risk behaviours was not statistically significant, indicating that no moderation effect is present. The results indicate that social need fulfillment does not modify the effect of SES on health risk behaviours during pregnancy. However, in literature, social relations are identified as an important influence on health risk behaviours. More research is needed to identify which measure of social relations is the most relevant regarding the association with health risk behaviours.
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- Stella Weiland
- Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen, InHolland, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Midwifery Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Department of Sociology and Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen, InHolland, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Midwifery Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Primary and Long-term Care, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen, InHolland, Groningen, The Netherlands
- Amsterdam UMC Location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Midwifery Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Glynn LM, Liu SR, Lucas CT, Davis EP. Leveraging the science of early life predictability to inform policies promoting child health. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2024; 69:101437. [PMID: 39260117 PMCID: PMC11415967 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101437] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2023] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 08/12/2024] [Indexed: 09/13/2024] Open
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Addressing the tremendous burden of early-life adversity requires constructive dialogues between scientists and policy makers to improve population health. Whereas dialogues focused on several aspects of early-life adversity have been initiated, discussion of an underrecognized form of adversity that has been observed across multiple contexts and cultures is only now emerging. Here we provide evidence for "why unpredictability?", including: 1. Evidence that exposures to unpredictability affect child neurodevelopment, with influences that persist into adulthood. 2. The existence of a translational non-human animal model of exposure to early life unpredictability that can be capitalized upon to causally probe neurobiological mechanisms. 3. Evidence that patterns of signals in the early environment promote brain maturation across species. 4. The uneven distribution of unpredictability across demographic populations that illuminates a possible focal point for enhancing health equity. We then outline the potential of unpredictability in terms of the "what"; that is, how might the concept of unpredictability be leveraged to inform policy? We emphasize the importance of interdisciplinary and community partnerships to the success of this work and describe our community-engaged research project. Finally, we highlight opportunities for the science of unpredictability to inform policies in areas such as screening, immigration, criminal justice, education, childcare, child welfare, employment, healthcare and housing.
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- Laura M Glynn
- Department of Psychology, Chapman University, United States.
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- Department of Human Development, California State University San Marcos, United States
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of California Irvine, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Denver, United States
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Conn K, Milton LK, Huang K, Munguba H, Ruuska J, Lemus MB, Greaves E, Homman-Ludiye J, Oldfield BJ, Foldi CJ. Psilocybin restrains activity-based anorexia in female rats by enhancing cognitive flexibility: contributions from 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptor mechanisms. Mol Psychiatry 2024; 29:3291-3304. [PMID: 38678087 DOI: 10.1038/s41380-024-02575-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2023] [Revised: 04/16/2024] [Accepted: 04/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/29/2024]
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Psilocybin has shown promise for alleviating symptoms of depression and is currently in clinical trials for the treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN), a condition that is characterised by persistent cognitive inflexibility. Considering that enhanced cognitive flexibility after psilocybin treatment is reported to occur in individuals with depression, it is plausible that psilocybin could improve symptoms of AN by breaking down cognitive inflexibility. A mechanistic understanding of the actions of psilocybin is required to tailor the clinical application of psilocybin to individuals most likely to respond with positive outcomes. This can only be achieved using incisive neurobiological approaches in animal models. Here, we use the activity-based anorexia (ABA) rat model and comprehensively assess aspects of reinforcement learning to show that psilocybin (post-acutely) improves body weight maintenance in female rats and facilitates cognitive flexibility, specifically via improved adaptation to the initial reversal of reward contingencies. Further, we reveal the involvement of signalling through the serotonin (5-HT) 1 A and 5-HT2A receptor subtypes in specific aspects of learning, demonstrating that 5-HT1A antagonism negates the cognitive enhancing effects of psilocybin. Moreover, we show that psilocybin elicits a transient increase and decrease in cortical transcription of these receptors (Htr2a and Htr1a, respectively), and a further reduction in the abundance of Htr2a transcripts in rats exposed to the ABA model. Together, these findings support the hypothesis that psilocybin could ameliorate cognitive inflexibility in the context of AN and highlight a need to better understand the therapeutic mechanisms independent of 5-HT2A receptor binding.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Female
- Psilocybin/pharmacology
- Rats
- Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A/metabolism
- Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT2A/drug effects
- Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A/metabolism
- Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A/drug effects
- Anorexia/metabolism
- Anorexia/drug therapy
- Cognition/drug effects
- Disease Models, Animal
- Anorexia Nervosa/drug therapy
- Anorexia Nervosa/metabolism
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Body Weight/drug effects
- Reward
- Hallucinogens/pharmacology
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- K Conn
- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Department of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100, Helsinki, Finland
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash Micro Imaging, Monash University, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia
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- Monash University, Department of Physiology, 26 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
- Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, 23 Innovation Walk, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia.
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Kvasova D, Coll L, Stewart T, Soto-Faraco S. Crossmodal semantic congruence guides spontaneous orienting in real-life scenes. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2024; 88:2138-2148. [PMID: 39105825 DOI: 10.1007/s00426-024-02018-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/07/2024]
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In real-world scenes, the different objects and events are often interconnected within a rich web of semantic relationships. These semantic links help parse information efficiently and make sense of the sensory environment. It has been shown that, during goal-directed search, hearing the characteristic sound of an everyday life object helps finding the affiliate objects in artificial visual search arrays as well as in naturalistic, real-life videoclips. However, whether crossmodal semantic congruence also triggers orienting during spontaneous, not goal-directed observation is unknown. Here, we investigated this question addressing whether crossmodal semantic congruence can attract spontaneous, overt visual attention when viewing naturalistic, dynamic scenes. We used eye-tracking whilst participants (N = 45) watched video clips presented alongside sounds of varying semantic relatedness with objects present within the scene. We found that characteristic sounds increased the probability of looking at, the number of fixations to, and the total dwell time on semantically corresponding visual objects, in comparison to when the same scenes were presented with semantically neutral sounds or just with background noise only. Interestingly, hearing object sounds not met with an object in the scene led to increased visual exploration. These results suggest that crossmodal semantic information has an impact on spontaneous gaze on realistic scenes, and therefore on how information is sampled. Our findings extend beyond known effects of object-based crossmodal interactions with simple stimuli arrays and shed new light on the role that audio-visual semantic relationships out in the perception of everyday life scenarios.
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- Daria Kvasova
- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Communication and Information Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer de Ramón Trias i Fargas 25-27, Barcelona, 08005, Spain
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- Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia (Cemcat), Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Communication and Information Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer de Ramón Trias i Fargas 25-27, Barcelona, 08005, Spain
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- Center for Brain and Cognition, Department of Communication and Information Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Carrer de Ramón Trias i Fargas 25-27, Barcelona, 08005, Spain.
- Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, Barcelona, 08010, Spain.
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Hellwig AF, Wroblewski KL, Krol KM, Connelly JJ, Allen JP. Epigenetic regulation of the oxytocin system as an indicator of adaptation to over-controlling parenting and psychosocial functioning in adulthood. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2024; 168:107123. [PMID: 39002450 PMCID: PMC11332246 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2024] [Revised: 06/06/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
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The oxytocin system plays a role in social stress adaptation, and this role is likely to be particularly important in adolescence. One method of regulating the oxytocin system is through DNA methylation in the promoter of the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTRm), which reduces the gene's expression. This multi-method, longitudinal study, using a diverse community sample of 184 adolescents followed from age 13-28, examined the links between OXTRm and exposure to over-controlling parenting in adolescence and conflict with romantic partners and internalizing symptoms in adulthood. Female, but not male, adolescents who were exposed to psychologically controlling parenting at age 13 had lower levels of OXTRm at site -924 at age 28. Reduced OXTRm at site -924 was associated with greater romantic partner-reported relationship conflict at age 27, and reduced OXTRm at site -934 was marginally associated with greater participant-reported conflict for males. Reduced OXTRm at site -924 was also associated with fewer internalizing symptoms at ages 24-25. These results in adulthood are consistent with an upregulated oxytocin system reducing the salience of negative socioemotional stimuli. Overall, findings are consistent with oxytocin playing a role in the stress response system, and more specifically, by helping us to adapt to social environments like parenting and romantic relationships, reducing the salience of negativity, and reducing risk for common emotional problems.
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Wang R, Su Y, O'Donnell K, Caron J, Meaney M, Meng X, Li Y. Differential interactions between gene expressions and stressors across the lifespan in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord 2024; 362:688-697. [PMID: 39029669 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2024.07.069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024]
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BACKGROUND Both genetic predispositions and exposures to stressors have collectively contributed to the development of major depressive disorder (MDD). To deep dive into their roles in MDD, our study aimed to examine which susceptible gene expression interacts with various dimensions of stressors in the MDD risk among a large population cohort. METHODS Data analyzed were from a longitudinal community-based cohort from Southwest Montreal, Canada (N = 1083). Latent profile models were used to identify distinct patterns of stressors for the study cohort. A transcriptome-wide association study (TWAS) method was performed to examine the interactive effects of three dimensions of stressors (threat, deprivation, and cumulative lifetime stress) and gene expression on the MDD risk in a total of 48 tissues from GTEx. Additional analyses were also conducted to further explore and specify these associations including colocalization, and fine-mapping analyses, in addition to enrichment analysis investigations based on TWAS. RESULTS We identified 3321 genes linked to MDD at the nominal p-value <0.05 and found that different patterns of stressors can amplify the genetic susceptibility to MDD. We also observed specific genes and pathways that interacted with deprivation and cumulative lifetime stressors, particularly in specific brain tissues including basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, brain amygdala, brain cerebellum, brain cortex, and the whole blood. Colocalization analysis also identified these genes as having a high probability of sharing MDD causal variants. LIMITATIONS The study cohort was composed exclusively of individuals of Caucasians, which restricts the generalizability of the findings to other ethnic population groups. CONCLUSIONS The findings of the study unveiled significant interactions between potential tissue-specific gene expression × stressors in the MDD risk and shed light on the intricate etiological attributes of gene expression and specific stressors across the lifespan in MDD. These genetic and environmental attributes in MDD corroborate the vulnerability-stress theory and direct future stress research to have a closer examination of genetic predisposition and potential involvements of omics studies to specify the intricate relationships between genes and stressful environments.
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- Ruiyang Wang
- Department of Financial and Risk Engineering, New York University, NY, NYC, USA; Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- School of Public Health and Emergency Management, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada; Yale Child Study Center, Department of Obstetrics Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Child & Brain Development Program, CIFAR, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Douglas Research Centre, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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- School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Thomas LR, Bessette KL, Westlund Schreiner M, Dillahunt AK, Frandsen SB, Pocius SL, Schubert BL, Farstead BW, Roberts H, Watkins ER, Kerig PK, Crowell SE, Langenecker SA. Early Emergence of Rumination has no Association with Performance on a Non-affective Inhibitory Control Task. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 2024; 55:1308-1324. [PMID: 36637686 PMCID: PMC9839218 DOI: 10.1007/s10578-022-01484-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Revised: 11/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Rumination is a vulnerability for depression and potentially linked to inhibitory control weaknesses. We aimed to replicate the association observed in adults between inhibitory control and rumination in adolescents, and to examine putative moderating roles of childhood maltreatment and perceived family cohesion in an adolescent sample at risk for depression due to familial/personal history. Ninety adolescents aged 11-17 (M = 14.6, SD = 1.8) completed self-report scales of rumination, maltreatment, and family cohesion, and performed a task assessing inhibitory control. Hierarchical regression models showed no significant relation between inhibitory control and moderator variables on rumination. However, adolescents who reported higher levels of maltreatment and who perceived lower family cohesion tended to indicate higher levels of rumination (BChilhood Maltreatment = 27.52, 95% CIs [5.63, 49.41], BFamily Cohesion = -0.40, 95% CIs [-0.65, -0.15]). These findings demonstrate an alternative understanding of factors that increase depression onset risk and recurrence in adolescents.
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- Leah R Thomas
- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
- Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60607, Chicago, IL, USA
- Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California Los Angeles, 90024, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, University of Utah, 501 Chipeta Way, 84108, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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Woodruff Carr K, Waxman SR. The link between non-human primate vocalizations and cognition is not constrained by maturation alone: Evidence from healthy preterm infants. Cognition 2024; 251:105886. [PMID: 39029362 PMCID: PMC11370052 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2024] [Revised: 07/08/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/21/2024]
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To acquire language, infants must not only identify the signals of their language(s), but also discover how these signals are connected to meaning. By 3 months of age, infants' native language, non-native languages, and vocalizations of non-human primates support infants' formation of object categories-a building block of cognition. But by 6 months, only the native language exerts this cognitive advantage. Prior work with preterm infants indicates that maturation constrains this developing link between the native language and cognition. Here, we assess whether maturation exerts similar constraints on the influence of non-human primate vocalizations on infant categorization. Cross-sectional growth curve analyses of new data from preterm infants and extant data from fullterm infants indicate that developmental tuning of this signal's influence on categorization is best predicted by infants' chronological age, and not gestational status. This evidence, together with prior work, suggests that as infants tune the initially broad set of signals that support early cognition, they are guided by two independent processes: maturation constrains the expression of a link between their native language and cognition, while the influence of non-linguistic signals are guided by other factors, such as postnatal age and experience.
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- Kali Woodruff Carr
- Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Medical Social Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA; Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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Sahbaz S, Cox RB, Montero-Zamora P, Salas-Wright CP, Maldonado-Molina MM, Bates MM, Pérez-Gómez A, Mejía-Trujillo J, Vos SR, Scaramutti C, Perazzo PA, Duque M, Garcia MF, Brown EC, Schwartz SJ. Measuring Anxiety Among Latino Immigrant Populations: Within-Country and Between-Country Comparisons. Assessment 2024; 31:1414-1429. [PMID: 38217446 PMCID: PMC11409562 DOI: 10.1177/10731911231223715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2024]
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Anxiety is the most prevalent mental health disorder among adults worldwide. Given its increased prevalence among migrants due to their marginalized position in the societies where they reside, psychometric evaluations of anxiety measures such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) are needed for use with migrants. The present study is the first attempt to compare the structure of GAD-7 scores for (a) different Latino groups in the same country and (b) the same Latino group in two different countries. Using three samples of Mexican and Venezuelan migrants (total N = 933), we provide reliability and validity evidence of the GAD-7 for use with adult Latino migrants. Utilizing confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory, we demonstrate that the GAD-7 is internally consistent, possesses a strong single-factor structure, and generates scores with equivalent psychometric properties. GAD-7 is appropriate for use with Mexican and Venezuelan migrants across differing gender groups and education levels.
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Su Y, Zheng L, Zheng Y. Pornography Use and Mental Health Problems in the Chinese Population: Examining the Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence Model. JOURNAL OF SEX RESEARCH 2024; 61:1210-1221. [PMID: 37074351 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2201255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Pornography has become increasingly prevalent worldwide with the development of the Internet, and considerable research on the effects of pornography use has emerged. Based on existing research and the Pornography Problems Due to Moral Incongruence (PPMI) model, we examined problematic pornography use (PPU) as a mediator and moral disapproval of pornography use as a moderator in the links between pornography use frequency and mental health problems in a Chinese sample (N = 833). Our results support the completely mediated effect of PPU (ab = 0.16) and the moderated effect of moral disapproval of pornography use on the association between pornography use frequency and PPU. Pornography use frequency was strongly associated with PPU when participants experienced high moral incongruence (MI), and the indirect effect of PPU was weaker (ab = 0.13) at the lower level of moderator (-1 SD), and stronger (ab = 0.23) at the higher level of moderator (+1 SD). However, the direct effect of MI on mental health problems was not supported. This study advances our understanding of the internal mechanism between pornography use and mental health and extends the PPMI model to the Chinese cultural context (characterized as low religiosity and sexually conservative). The findings confirm the cross-cultural consistency of the PPMI model in China and highlight another important source of MI besides religiosity: cultural characteristics.
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- Yanchen Su
- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education), Southwest University
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education), Southwest University
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- Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (Ministry of Education), Southwest University
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Parekh MH, Thuler E, Triantafillou V, Seay E, Sehgal C, Schultz S, Keenan BT, Schwartz AR, Dedhia RC. Physiologic and anatomic determinants of hyoid motion during drug-induced sleep endoscopy. Sleep Breath 2024; 28:1997-2004. [PMID: 38987507 DOI: 10.1007/s11325-024-03101-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2024] [Revised: 05/31/2024] [Accepted: 07/01/2024] [Indexed: 07/12/2024]
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PURPOSE To examine factors accounting for differences in hyoid motion during obstructive breathing events amongst obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients. METHODS This was a prospective cohort study from June 2022 to October 2022. Patients with OSA undergoing evaluation for PAP alternative therapies with drug-induced sleep endoscopy with positive airway pressure titration (DISE-PAP). All patients underwent DISE-PAP and concurrent hyoid-focused ultrasound. DISE-PAP enabled measurement of airway physiology (flow, respiratory effort) and airway collapsibility (pharyngeal opening pressure, PhOP). Hyoid-ultrasound enabled hyoid bone movement during obstructive breathing. Respiratory effort was measured using a retro-epiglottic pressure-sensitive catheter. Hyoid position was measured using a standardized, awake, CT protocol. Regression analyses adjusted for age, race, sex, and BMI were performed to associate indices of respiratory effort and CT data with hyoid motion. RESULTS On average, the 26 patients in this cohort were older (63.9 ± 10.5 years), male (69%), overweight (29.6 ± 3.99 kg/m2), and with moderate-to-severe OSA (26.8 ± 10.4 events/hour). Greater respiratory effort was associated with increased hyoid motion (β [95% CI] = 0.034 [0.016,0.052], standardized β = 0.261,p = 0.0003). Higher hyoid position was associated with greater hyoid displacement (β [95% CI] = -0.20 [-0.38,-0.01], Standardized β = -0.57, p = 0.036). CONCLUSION Our data demonstrate that greater respiratory effort, higher hyoid position, and higher airway collapsibility, but not airflow, are associated with greater hyoid motion during obstructive breathing in DISE. These findings suggest that downward hyoid movement represents a compensatory response to upper airway obstruction. Further studies should investigate the vectors of hyoid motion to better understand its role in sleep-related airway collapse.
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- Manan H Parekh
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Division of Sleep Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
- Division of Sleep Medicine/Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Isaacowitz DM, Wolfe HE. Emotion Regulation Tactics: A Key to Understanding Age (and Other Between- and Within-Person) Differences in Emotion Regulation Preference and Effectiveness. EMOTION REVIEW 2024; 16:252-264. [PMID: 39329033 PMCID: PMC11423774 DOI: 10.1177/17540739241259567] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2024]
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Older adults report high emotional well-being, but age-comparative studies of emotion regulation strategies have not identified systematic age differences. We propose that emotion regulation tactics may be more promising. Emotion regulation tactics involve strategy implementation in a specific situation, and have features shared across strategies involving positive or negative elements (objects/thoughts) in the environment that may be approached or receded from in the regulation attempt (i.e., a valence dimension about the environmental element, and a direction dimension indicating movement toward or away from it). Across several studies, older adults used more positive-approaching than negative-receding tactics. Positive-approaching tactics may also be more effective at regulating mood. We consider implications for aging, as well as group differences in emotion regulation behavior generally.
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Yilmaz G, Demir Acar M. The effect of animal-assisted intervention on fear in children in the emergency department: A randomized controlled trial. J Pediatr Nurs 2024:S0882-5963(24)00358-0. [PMID: 39358068 DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2024.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2024] [Revised: 08/24/2024] [Accepted: 09/23/2024] [Indexed: 10/04/2024]
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AIM This study aimed to determine the effect of animal-assisted intervention on the fears of hospitalized children in the emergency department (ED). MATERIALS AND METHODS The randomized controlled trial was conducted between April and June 2023 in the Central Black Sea Region of Turkiye. The study included 70 children aged 5 to 7 years old (the study group was 35, and the control group was 35). The study and control groups were randomly assigned to strata using simple randomization. While goldfish were used for animal-assisted intervention in the study group, routine care was continued in the control group. The "Child Fear Scale" and "The Scale of Children's Fear of Nursing Interventions and Instruments Used in Hospital" were used as data collection tools. RESULTS The mean score of the fear scale in the post-test scores of the study group children was significantly lower than the control group (p < 0.001). After the animal-assisted intervention, the mean fear scores of the children in the care study group toward nursing interventions and the materials used decreased significantly (p < 0.001). Furthermore, when the two groups were compared, the difference between the post-test scores was not significant (p > 0.05). CONCLUSION Animal-assisted intervention was determined to be effective in decreasing the fear levels of the children in the study group. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS During hospitalization in the emergency department, methods appropriate to the child's developmental level and animal-assisted interventions were found to be effective in reducing children's fear levels.
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- Gulmelek Yilmaz
- Tokat Gaziosmapasa University, Institute of Graduate Studies, Tokat, Turkiye.
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- Tokat Gaziosmapasa University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Tokat, Turkiye.
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Kutlu E, Klein-Packard J, Jeppsen C, Tomblin JB, McMurray B. The development of real-time spoken and word recognition derives from changes in ability, not maturation. Cognition 2024; 251:105899. [PMID: 39059118 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Revised: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 07/17/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024]
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In typical adults, recognizing both spoken and written words is thought to be served by a process of competition between candidates in the lexicon. In recent years, work has used eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm to characterize this competition process over development. It has shown that both spoken and written word recognition continue to develop through adolescence (Rigler et al., 2015). It is still unclear what drives these changes in real-time word recognition over the school years, as there are dramatic changes in language, the onset of reading instruction, and gains in domain general function during this time. This study began to address these issues by asking whether changes in real-time word recognition derive from changes in overall language and reading ability or reflect more general age-related development. This cross-sectional study examined 278 school-age children (Grades 1-3) using the Visual World Paradigm to assess both spoken and written word recognition, along with multiple measures of language, reading and phonology. A structural equation model applied to these ability measures found three factors representing language, reading, and phonology. Multiple regression analyses were used to understand how these three factors relate to real-time spoken and written word recognition as well as a non-linguistic variant of the VWP intended to capture decision speed, eye-movement factors, and other non-language/reading differences. We found that for both spoken and written word recognition, the speed of activating target words in both domains was more closely tied to the relevant ability (e.g., reading for written word recognition) than was age. We also examined competition resolution (how fully competitors were suppressed late in processing). Here, spoken word recognition showed only small, developmental effects that were only related to phonological processing, suggesting links to developmental language disorder. However, in written word recognition, competitor resolution showed large impacts of development which were strongly linked to reading. This suggests the dimensionality of real-time lexical processing may differ across domains. Importantly, neither spoken nor written word recognition is fully described by changes in non-linguistic skills assessed with non-linguistic VWP, and the non-linguistic VWP was linked to differences in language and reading. These findings suggest that spoken and written word recognition continue past the first year of life and are mostly driven by ability and not only by overall maturation.
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- Ethan Kutlu
- Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA; Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA.
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- Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA; Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, USA.
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Monaghan P, Jago LS, Speyer L, Turnbull H, Alcock KJ, Rowland CF, Cain K. Statistical learning ability at 17 months relates to early reading skills via oral language. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 246:106002. [PMID: 39002185 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 05/23/2024] [Accepted: 05/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
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Statistical learning ability has been found to relate to children's reading skills. Yet, statistical learning is also known to be vital for developing oral language skills, and oral language and reading skills relate strongly. These connections raise the question of whether statistical learning ability affects reading via oral language or directly. Statistical learning is multifaceted, and so different aspects of statistical learning might influence oral language and reading skills distinctly. In a longitudinal study, we determined how two aspects of statistical learning from an artificial language tested on 70 17-month-old infants-segmenting sequences from speech and generalizing the sequence structure-related to oral language skills measured at 54 months and reading skills measured at approximately 75 months. Statistical learning segmentation did not relate significantly to oral language or reading, whereas statistical learning generalization related to oral language, but only indirectly related to reading. Our results showed that children's early statistical learning ability was associated with learning to read via the children's oral language skills.
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- Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK; Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 5AH, UK
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- University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZX, UK; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6525 XD Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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- Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK
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Grobe SE, Könen T, David C, Grüneisen L, Dörrenbächer-Ulrich L, Perels F, Karbach J. The factorial structure of executive functions in preschool and elementary school children and relations with intelligence. J Exp Child Psychol 2024; 246:106014. [PMID: 39043117 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Revised: 01/31/2024] [Accepted: 06/03/2024] [Indexed: 07/25/2024]
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The timing of structural changes in executive functions (EFs) across development is a matter of controversy; whereas some studies suggest a uniform structure of EFs in early childhood, findings in middle and late childhood are mixed. There are results indicating uniformity of EFs as well as several studies suggesting multidimensionality of the construct. In addition, studies demonstrate an age-related differentiation of the relation between EFs and intelligence. We conducted a comparative analysis of the EF structure and relations with fluid intelligence in two distinct age groups. A sample of n = 145 preschool children (5.2-6.7 years of age) and n = 109 elementary school children (8.8-11.8 years) completed measures of working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and fluid intelligence. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) revealed that a single-factor model best represented performance on EF tasks in both preschool and elementary school children. Multi-group CFA indicated equivalent and strong relations between EFs and intelligence across both age groups (r = .64 in preschool and elementary school children). Our results confirm that EFs are significantly related to fluid intelligence but might not underlie a uniform pattern of successive differentiation into multiple EF components in childhood. We discuss how methodological artifacts such as simultaneous interference might have contributed to previous findings on differentiation in middle and late childhood.
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- Sophia Elisabeth Grobe
- Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), 76829 Landau, Germany.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), 76829 Landau, Germany; Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), DIPF | Leipniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Saarland University, Saarbrücken Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Department of Psychology, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU), 76829 Landau, Germany; Center for Research on Individual Development and Adaptive Education of Children at Risk (IDeA), DIPF | Leipniz Institute for Research and Information in Education, 60323 Frankfurt, Germany
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Goetz SMM, Lucas T, Granger DA. Salivary uric acid dynamics are associated with stress response hormones among African Americans in an urban sample. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2024; 168:107120. [PMID: 39002453 PMCID: PMC11317218 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2024.107120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2024] [Revised: 05/20/2024] [Accepted: 06/27/2024] [Indexed: 07/15/2024]
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Acute physiological responses to psychosocial stressors are a potential pathway underlying racial disparities in stress-related illnesses. Uric acid (UA) is a potent antioxidant that has been linked to disparities in stress-related illnesses, and recent research has shown that UA is responsive to acute social stress. However, an examination of the relationships between the purinergic system and other commonly measured stress systems is lacking. Here, we measure and characterize associations of salivary uric acid (sUA) with markers of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation, sympathetic-adreno-medullar (SAM) axis activation, and acute inflammation. A community sample of 103 African Americans (33 male, 70 female) completed the Trier Social Stress Test to induce social-evaluative threat. Passive drool collected before, during, and after the stressor task provided salivary reactivity measures of UA (sUA), cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), salivary alpha amylase (sAA - a surrogate marker of SAM activity) and C-reactive protein (sCRP). Multiple regressions revealed that total activation of cortisol, DHEAS, and sCRP were each positively associated with higher total activation of sUA. Additionally, DHEAS reactivity was positively associated with sUA reactivity. Relationships between HPA-axis markers and sUA were especially observed among younger and male participants. Overall, findings suggest potential coordination of stress systems with sUA in response to acute stress, which may further the contributions of biological stress processes to racial health disparities.
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- Stefan M M Goetz
- Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, 200 East 1st Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA.
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- Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, 200 East 1st Street, Flint, MI 48502, USA.
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- Department of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-1075, USA; Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, University of California at Irvine, 4201 SBSG, Irvine, CA 92697-7085, USA; John Hopkins University School of Medicine, 615 North Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
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Cohen AS, Rodriguez Z, Opler M, Kirkpatrick B, Milanovic S, Piacentino D, Szabo ST, Tomioka S, Ogirala A, Koblan KS, Siegel JS, Hopkins S. Evaluating speech latencies during structured psychiatric interviews as an automated objective measure of psychomotor slowing. Psychiatry Res 2024; 340:116104. [PMID: 39137558 DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2024.116104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2024] [Revised: 07/23/2024] [Accepted: 07/24/2024] [Indexed: 08/15/2024]
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We sought to derive an objective measure of psychomotor slowing from speech analytics during a psychiatric interview to avoid potential burden of dedicated neurophysiological testing. Speech latency, which reflects response time between speakers, shows promise from the literature. Speech data was obtained from 274 subjects with a diagnosis of bipolar I depression enrolled in a randomized, doubleblind, 6-week phase 2 clinical trial. Audio recordings of structured Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) interviews at 6 time points were examined (k = 1,352). We evaluated speech latencies, and other aspects of speech, for temporal stability, convergent validity, sensitivity/responsivity to clinical change, and generalization across seven socio-linguistically diverse countries. Speech latency was minimally associated with demographic features, and explained nearly a third of the variance in depression (categorically defined). Speech latency significantly decreased as depression symptoms improved over time, explaining nearly 20 % of variance in depression remission. Classification for differentiating people with versus without concurrent depression was high (AUCs > 0.85) both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Results replicated across countries. Other speech features offered modest incremental contribution. Neurophysiological speech parameters with face validity can be derived from psychiatric interviews without the added patient burden of additional testing.
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- Alex S Cohen
- Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, USA; Louisiana State University, Center for Computation and Technology, USA; Quantic Innovation, Inc, USA.
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- Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, USA; Louisiana State University, Center for Computation and Technology, USA
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- Quantic Innovation, Inc, USA; WCG, Inc, USA
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- Quantic Innovation, Inc, USA; Psychiatric Research Institute, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
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- Sumitomo Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA; Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Psychiatry, USA
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Jelsma D, Targino Gomes Draghi T, Cavalcante Neto J, Smits-Engelsman B. Improved attentional abilities after playing five weeks of active video games in children with and without developmental coordination disorder. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. CHILD 2024; 13:350-358. [PMID: 36943425 DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2023.2190024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/23/2023]
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BACKGROUND Besides motor coordination problems, attentional impairments are reported in children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD), but the connection or trainability is still unclear. AIM To test changes on attentional abilities after playing active video games (AVG) in children with DCD and their peers (TD), to evaluate near transfer and the relationship between omissions in attentional and motor tests. METHODS Seventy children (35 DCD; 35 TD), 7-12 years old, were assessed on three types of attention: distractibility (DIS); divided-attention (DA); sustained-attention (SA) and on the Wii Fit test pre- and post-training. RESULTS A significant decrease of errors in attentional tasks was found after training, independent of group (TD/DCD) and console (Wii Fit/Xbox) with medium-strong effect sizes (DIS η2p =.42; DA η2p =.51; SA η2p =.41). The groups responded similarly to the training but the DCD children scored poorer on the DA. A positive transfer-effect to the non-trained Wii Fit test was found in accuracy (missed gates), while speed proved console-specific. A medium/strong relation was found between omissions in attentional tasks and the missed gates (Wii Fit test). CONCLUSION More accurate responses on attentional tasks were found after AVG-training in both groups. A clear relationship between attentional abilities and motor performance was found.
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- Dorothee Jelsma
- Clinical and Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil
- Department of Human Science, State University of Bahia, Jacobina, Brazil
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- Department of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
- Faculty of Health Sciences, Physical Activity, Sport and Recreation (PhASRec), Potchefstroom, South Africa
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Liu X. Age differences in the recruitment of syntactic analysis and semantic plausibility during sentence comprehension. THE JOURNAL OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 2024; 151:444-466. [PMID: 37981754 DOI: 10.1080/00221309.2023.2283107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2023] [Accepted: 11/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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Syntactic analysis and semantic plausibility provide important cues to build the meaningful representation of sentences. The purpose of this research is to explore the age-related differences in the use of syntactic analysis and semantic plausibility during sentence comprehension under different working memory load conditions. A sentence judgment task was implemented among a group of older and younger adults. Semantic plausibility (plausible, implausible) and syntactic consistency (consistent, inconsistent) were manipulated in the experimental stimuli, and working memory load (high, low) was varied by manipulating the presentation of the stimuli. The study revealed a stronger effect of semantic plausibility in older adults than in younger adults when working memory load was low. But no significant age difference in the effect of syntactic consistency was discovered. When working memory load was high, there was a stronger effect of semantic plausibility and a weaker effect of syntactic consistency in older adults than in younger adults, which suggests that older adults relied more on semantic plausibility and less on syntactic analysis than younger adults. The findings indicate that there is an age-related increase in the use of semantic plausibility, and a reduction in the use of syntactic analysis as working memory load increases.
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Capella J, Telzer EH. A framework for integrating neural development and social networks in adolescence. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2024; 69:101442. [PMID: 39241455 PMCID: PMC11408384 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2024] [Revised: 07/12/2024] [Accepted: 09/03/2024] [Indexed: 09/09/2024] Open
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Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by increasingly complex and influential peer contexts. Concurrently, developmental changes in neural circuits, particularly those related to social cognition, affective salience, and cognitive control, contribute to individuals' social interactions and behaviors. However, while adolescents' behaviors and overall outcomes are influenced by the entirety of their social environments, insights from developmental and social neuroscience often come from studies of individual relationships or specific social actors. By capturing information about both adolescents' individual relations and their larger social contexts, social network analysis offers a powerful opportunity to enhance our understanding of how social factors interact with adolescent development. In this review, we highlight the relevant features of adolescent social and neural development that should be considered when integrating social network analysis and neuroimaging methods. We focus on broad themes of adolescent development, including identity formation, peer sensitivity, and the pursuit of social goals, that serve as potential mechanisms for the relations between neural processes and social network features. With these factors in mind, we review the current research and propose future applications of these methods and theories.
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- Jimmy Capella
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
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Kucker SC. Developing language in a digital world. Trends Cogn Sci 2024; 28:871-873. [PMID: 39181735 PMCID: PMC11446642 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2024] [Revised: 08/01/2024] [Accepted: 08/02/2024] [Indexed: 08/27/2024]
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Young children's screen time is increasing, raising concerns about its negative impact on language development, particularly vocabulary. However, digital media is used in a variety of ways, which likely differentially impact language development. Instead of asking 'how much' screen time, the focus should be on how digital media is used.
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Mohanathasan C, Fels J, Schlittmeier SJ. Listening to two-talker conversations in quiet settings: the role of listeners' cognitive processing capabilities for memory and listening effort. Sci Rep 2024; 14:22764. [PMID: 39354014 PMCID: PMC11445257 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-74085-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2024] [Accepted: 09/23/2024] [Indexed: 10/03/2024] Open
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Listening to conversing talkers in quiet environments and remembering the content is a common activity. However, research on the cognitive demands involved is limited. This study investigates the relevance of individuals' cognitive functions for listeners' memory of two-talker conversations and their listening effort in quiet listening settings. A dual-task paradigm was employed to explore memory of conversational content and listening effort while analyzing the role of participants' (n = 29) working memory capacity (measured through the operation span task), attention (Frankfurt attention inventory 2), and information-processing speed (trail making test). In the primary task, participants listened to a conversation between a male and female talker and answered content-related questions. The two talkers' audio signals were presented through headphones, either spatially separated (+ /- 60°) or co-located (0°). Participants concurrently performed a vibrotactile pattern recognition task as a secondary task to measure listening effort. Results indicated that attention and processing speed were related to memory of conversational content and that all three cognitive functions were related to listening effort. Memory performance and listening effort were similar for spatially separated and co-located talkers when considering the psychometric measures. This research offers valuable insights into cognitive processes during two-talker conversations in quiet settings.
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- Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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Laycock A, Schofield G, McCall C. The effects of threat on complex decision-making: evidence from a virtual environment. Sci Rep 2024; 14:22637. [PMID: 39349575 PMCID: PMC11442743 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72812-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2024] [Accepted: 09/10/2024] [Indexed: 10/02/2024] Open
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Individuals living and working in dangerous settings (e.g., first responders and military personnel) make complex decisions amidst serious threats. However, controlled studies on decision-making under threat are limited given obvious ethical concerns. Here, we embed a complex decision-making task within a threatening, immersive virtual environment. Based on the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a paradigm widely used to study complex decision-making, the task requires participants to make a series of choices to escape a collapsing building. In Study 1 we demonstrate that, as with the traditional IGT, participants learn to make advantageous decisions over time and that their behavioural data can be described by reinforcement-learning based computational models. In Study 2 we created threatening and neutral versions of the environment. In the threat condition, participants performed worse, taking longer to improve from baseline and scoring lower through the final trials. Computational modelling further revealed that participants in the threat condition were more responsive to short term rewards and less likely to perseverate on a given choice. These findings suggest that when threat is integral to decision-making, individuals make more erratic choices and focus on short term gains. They furthermore demonstrate the utility of virtual environments for making threat integral to cognitive tasks.
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- Aaron Laycock
- Department of Psychology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
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- Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, YO10 5GB, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
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Zhang D, Xie Y, Wang L, Zhou K. Structural and transcriptional signatures of arithmetic abilities in children. NPJ SCIENCE OF LEARNING 2024; 9:58. [PMID: 39349496 PMCID: PMC11442576 DOI: 10.1038/s41539-024-00270-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2023] [Accepted: 09/22/2024] [Indexed: 10/02/2024]
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Arithmetic ability is critical for daily life, academic achievement, career development, and future economic success. Individual differences in arithmetic skills among children and adolescents are related to variations in brain structures. Most existing studies have used hypothesis-driven region of interest analysis. To identify distributed brain regions related to arithmetic ability, we used data-driven cross-validated predictive models to analyze cross-sectional behavioral and structural MRI data in children and adolescents. The gray matter volume (GMV) of widespread brain regions reliably predicted arithmetic abilities measured by the Comprehensive Mathematical Abilities Test. Furthermore, we applied neuroimaging-transcriptome association analysis to explore transcriptional signatures associated with structural patterns of arithmetic ability. Structural patterns of arithmetic ability primarily correlated with transcriptional profiles enriched for genes involved in transmembrane transport and synaptic signaling. Our findings enhance our understanding of the neural and genetic mechanisms underlying children's arithmetic ability and offer a practical predictor for arithmetic skills during development.
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- Dai Zhang
- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
- Medical Imaging Research Center, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Radiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
- Medical Imaging Research Center, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
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Azu MA, Han GT, Wolf JM, Naples AJ, Chawarska K, Dawson G, Bernier RA, Jeste SS, Dziura JD, Webb SJ, Sugar CA, Shic F, McPartland JC. Clinician-caregiver informant discrepancy is associated with sex, diagnosis age, and intervention use among autistic children. AUTISM : THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE 2024:13623613241279999. [PMID: 39344965 DOI: 10.1177/13623613241279999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2024]
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LAY ABSTRACT In some cases, a clinician's perceptions of a child's autism-related behaviors are not the same as the child's caregiver's perceptions. Identifying how these discrepancies relate to the characteristics of the child is critical for ensuring that diagnosis procedures are unbiased and suitable for all children. This study examined whether discrepancies between clinician and caregiver reports of autism features related to the child's sex at birth. We also explored how the discrepancies related to the age at which the child received their autism diagnosis and how much intervention they received. We found that clinicians rated autism features higher than caregivers for boys and rated autism features lower than caregivers for girls. In addition, lower clinician relative to parent ratings was related to being diagnosed at an older age and receiving less intervention. These findings suggest that there is more to learn about the presentation of autism-related behaviors in girls. When caregiver and clinician ratings of autism features do not align, it may be important to consider caregivers' ratings to obtain a more accurate picture of the child's autism features and the support they may need.
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Gonda D, Tirpáková A, Pavlovičová G, Ďuriš V. The role of a team psychological safety feeling in teamwork in the classroom. Heliyon 2024; 10:e37618. [PMID: 39309768 PMCID: PMC11415665 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e37618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 09/03/2024] [Accepted: 09/06/2024] [Indexed: 09/25/2024] Open
Abstract
Active cooperation is expected from the student in the education center, which is associated with fears of expressing their opinions, because a possible mistake may result in a negative reaction from the environment. In our research, we investigated the impact of team psychological safety feelings on students' willingness to engage in active learning. 244 students aged 18 and 19 participated in the research. A mixed methods approach was used to obtain the necessary data. By data analysis, we revealed three separate dimensions in respondents' answers to questionnaire items. According to our findings, students' involvement in active learning is strongly supported by their internal motivation to acquire new knowledge and trust in the class collective. A sense of psychological team safety has an important place in encouraging the student to engage in common activities. At the same time, we found that the teacher has a decisive influence on building the student's trust in the class team.
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Affiliation(s)
- Dalibor Gonda
- Department of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 1, 01026, Žilina, Slovakia
| | - Anna Tirpáková
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94901, Nitra, Slovakia
- Department of School Education, Faculty of Humanities, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Stefanikova 5670, 76001, Zlin, Czech Republic
| | - Gabriela Pavlovičová
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94901, Nitra, Slovakia
| | - Viliam Ďuriš
- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Informatics, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 94901, Nitra, Slovakia
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