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Cognition and pain
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2014-06)Purpose of reviewPain and cognition share common neural substrates and are known to interact reciprocally. This has implications for treatment and management of pain conditions; pain can negatively affect cognitive ... -
Cognitive coping style and the effectiveness of distraction or sensation-focused instructions in chronic pain patients
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-12)Aim This study set out to investigate whether cognitive coping strategies that match participants' preferred coping style effectively reduce pain intensity and situational anxiety in a population of people with chronic ... -
Comparison of acceptance and distraction strategies in coping with experimentally induced pain
(Dove Medical Press Ltd., 2015-03-01)Background: This study compared an acceptance-based strategy with a control-based strategy (distraction) in terms of the ability of participants to tolerate a painful stimulus, across two experiments. In addition, participants ... -
Decision landscapes: visualizing mouse-tracking data
(The Royal Society, 2017-11-01)Computerized paradigms have enabled gathering rich data on human behaviour, including information on motor execution of a decision, e.g. by tracking mouse cursor trajectories. These trajectories can reveal novel information ... -
Enhanced visual temporal resolution in autism spectrum disorders
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2012-03-21)Cognitive functions that rely on accurate sequencing of events, such as action planning and execution, verbal and nonverbal communication, and social interaction rely on well-tuned coding of temporal event-structure. Visual ... -
Evaluating attention in delirium: a comparison of bedside tests of attention
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-09-29)AimImpaired attention is a core diagnostic feature for delirium. The present study examined the discriminating properties for patients with delirium versus those with dementia and/or no neurocognitive disorder of four ... -
Factors producing over-selectivity in older individuals
(Springer Nature, 2016-05-31)Stimulus over-selectivity describes a phenomenon where only a subset of the relevant stimuli present in the environment, control an individual's behavior. The current experiment explored the degree to which over-selectivity ... -
Impact of threat level, task instruction, and individual characteristics on cold pressor pain and fear among children and their parents
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015-05-26)The cold pressor task (CPT) is increasingly used to induce experimental pain in children, but the specific methodology of the CPT is quite variable across pediatric studies. This study examined how subtle variations in CPT ... -
On disturbed time continuity in schizophrenia: an elementary impairment in visual perception?
(Frontiers Media SA, 2013-01-01)Schizophrenia is associated with a series of visual perception impairments, which might impact on the patients' every day life and be related to clinical symptoms. However, the heterogeneity of the visual disorders make ... -
Variability in working memory performance explained by epistasis vs polygenic scores in theznf804apathway
(American Medical Association (AMA), 2014-07-01)IMPORTANCE We investigated the variation in neuropsychological function explained by risk alleles at the psychosis susceptibility gene ZNF804A and its interacting partners using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), ...