53 research outputs found
Assessment of prospective memory: A review of data from laboratory-based paradigms and ecologically valid tasks
No full textEarly maladaptive schemas as mediators between childhood maltreatment and later psychological distress among Chinese college students
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The aim of the current study was to examine whether early maladaptive schemas (EMSs) mediate the association between different kinds of childhood maltreatment and later psychopathology and the effect of different kinds of childhood maltreatment on psychological distress in later life. A total of 1102 college students from two local universities participated in the study; their average age was 20.46 +/- 1.13 years. The participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), the Early Maladaptive Schemas Scale (EMSs), the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), and the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS). Later psychological distress had a significant positive correlation with childhood EMSs, and almost all of the variables measuring childhood maltreatment had a significant positive correlation with EMSs. Structural equation modeling and mediation analyses were conducted based on Bootstrap estimations; the mediation analyses demonstrated the utility of EMSs as the mechanism through which childhood maltreatment has an indirect effect on later psychological distress. Moreover, the study found that emotional abuse had the strongest overall effect of all five types of child maltreatment on later psychological distress, followed in order of magnitude by emotional neglect, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and physical abuse.</p
Brief assessment of schizotypal traits: A multinational study
No full textE.F.P. was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) (PSI2014-56114-P), by the Instituto Carlos III, Center for Biomedical Research in the Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), and by 2015 edition of the BBVA Foundation Grants for Researchers and Cultural Creators. M.D. was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (100019_159440). R.C. was supported by the Beijing Training Project for Leading Talents in S&T (Z151100000315020), the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Grant (Z161100000216138), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Precision Psychiatry Program: 2016YFC0906402). JCB was partly funded by the Cooperative Research Centre-Mental Health, Carlton, Australia. S.G. and I.T. were supported by the “ARISTEIA II” Action of the Operational Programme Education and Lifelong Learning and was co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources [grant number KA 2990].Fonseca-Pedrero, E., Ortuño-Sierra, J., Lucas-Molina, B., Debbané, M., Chan, R.C.K., Cicero, D.C., Zhang, L.C., Brenner, C., Barkus, E., Linscott, R.J., Kwapil, T., Barrantes-Vidal, N., Cohen, A., Raine, A., Compton, M.T., Tone, E.B., Suhr, J., Bobes, J., Fumero, A., Giakoumaki, S., Tsaousis, I., Preti, A., Chmielewski, M., Laloyaux, J., Mechri, A., Lahmar, M.A., Wuthrich, V., Larøi, F., Badcock, J.C., Jablensky, A., Barron, D., Swami, V., Tran, U.S., Voracek, M
Comparisons of schizotypal traits across 12 countries: Results from the International Consortium for Schizotypy Research
No full textE.F.·P was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) (PSI2014-56114-P), by the Instituto Carlos III, Center for Biomedical Research in the Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), and by 2015 edition of the BBVA Foundation Grants for Researchers and Cultural Creators. M.D was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (100019_159440). R.C. was supported by the Beijing Training Project for Leading Talents in S&T (Z151100000315020), the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Grant (Z161100000216138), and the National Basic Research Program of China (Precision Psychiatry Program: 2016YFC0906402). JCB was partly funded by the Cooperative Research Centre-Mental Health, Carlton, Australia. S.G and I. T. were supported by the “ARISTEIA II” Action of the Operational Programme Education and Lifelong Learning and was co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Resources [grant number KA 2990].Fonseca-Pedrero, E., Chan, R.C.K., Debbané, M., Cicero, D., Zhang, L.C., Brenner, C., Barkus, E., Linscott, R.J., Kwapil, T., Barrantes-Vidal, N., Cohen, A., Raine, A., Compton, M.T., Tone, E.B., Suhr, J., Muñiz, J., de Albéniz, A.P., Fumero, A., Giakoumaki, S., Tsaousis, I., Preti, A., Chmielewski, M., Laloyaux, J., Mechri, A., Lahmar, M.A., Wuthrich, V., Larøi, F., Badcock, J.C., Jablensky, A., Ortuño-Sierra, J
The Network Structure of Schizotypal Personality Traits
No full textE.F.P. was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) (PSI2014-56114-P), the Instituto Carlos III, Center for Biomedical Research in the Mental Health Network (CIBERSAM), 2015 edition of the BBVA Foundation Grants for Researchers and Cultural Creators and AYUDAS FUNDACIÓN BBVA A EQUIPOS DE INVESTIGACION CIENTIFICA 2017. E.I.F. was supported by the European Research Council Consolidator grant no. 647209.Fonseca-Pedrero, E., Ortuño, J., Debbané, M., Chan, R.C.K., Cicero, D., Zhang, L.C., Brenner, C., Barkus, E., Linscott, R.J., Kwapil, T., Barrantes-Vidal, N., Cohen, A., Raine, A., Compton, M.T., Tone, E.B., Suhr, J., Inchausti, F., Bobes, J., Fumero, A., Giakoumaki, S., Tsaousis, I., Preti, A., Chmielewski, M., Laloyaux, J., Mechri, A., Aymen Lahmar, M., Wuthrich, V., Larøi, F., Badcock, J.C., Jablensky, A., Isvoranu, A.M., Epskamp, S., Fried, E.I
BDNF and TNF-a polymorphisms in memory
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Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia: possible association with human herpesvirus-7 infection after lung transplantation
No full textSchizotypy as an organizing framework for social and affective sciences
No full textSchizotypy, defined in terms of commonly occurring personality
traits related to the schizophrenia spectrum, has been
an important construct for understanding the neurodevelopment
and stress-diathesis of schizophrenia. However, as
schizotypy nears its sixth decade of application, it is important
to acknowledge its impressively rich literature accumulating
outside of schizophrenia research. In this article, we
make the case that schizotypy has considerable potential
as a conceptual framework for understanding individual
differences in affective and social functions beyond those
directly involved in schizophrenia spectrum pathology. This
case is predicated on (a) a burgeoning literature noting
anomalies in a wide range of social functioning, affiliative,
positive and negative emotional, expressive, and social cognitive
systems, (b) practical and methodological features
associated with schizotypy research that help facilitate
empirical investigation, and (c) close ties to theoretical
constructs of central importance to affective and social science
(eg, stress diathesis, neural compensation). We highlight
recent schizotypy research, ie providing insight into
the nature of affective and social systems more generally.
This includes current efforts to clarify the neurodevelopmental,
neurobiological, and psychological underpinnings
of affiliative drives, hedonic capacity, social cognition, and
stress responsivity systems. Additionally, we discuss neural
compensatory and resilience factors that may mitigate the
expression of stress-diathesis and functional outcome, and
highlight schizotypy's potential role for understanding cultural
determinants of social and affective functions
Impact of the ageing process on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory
No full textThe present study aimed to compare the impact of the aging process on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory (PM) and to explore the aging patterns of PM-related cognitive functions. Seventy-five participants were recruited and divided into three age groups: young (20-24 years old), young-old (60-70 years old), and older-old (greater than 70 years old). A computerized PM test and a set of tests capturing executive functions, retrospective memory, and working memory were administered to all participants. Significant age effects were only found for event-based PM and time-based PM. However, event-based PM was noted to decline gradually, whereas time-based PM was noted to deteriorate abruptly with age. For older, but not young participants, performance on the time-based PM tasks was significantly improved under a more lenient scoring criterion which had an increased response time window. Measures of executive functions and retrospective memory were significantly associated with PM, but these relations disappeared after controlling for age and education. Working memory was found to be the most important contributor to the effect of age on PM. These findings suggest a differential aging process for event-, time-, and activity-based PM.</p
Taxonomy, phylogeny and eco-biogeography of southern African white-eyes (Zosterops spp.) Aves: order Passeriformes, Family: Zosteropidae
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-216).The aim of this study was to incorporate all lines of evidence to establish the true taxonomy and phylogeny of southern African Zosterops. Character data sets used include plumage and morphometric measures, vocal characters and molecular (mitochondrial and nuclear) DNA sequences. A broad scale phylogeographic analysis was also performed to establish the evolutionary process driving the diversity observed among these birds
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