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Cognition and emotion age together: Ventromesial frontalsensitivity-to-aging through the use of two gambling tasks
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Psychoanalytical observations in a patient with anosodiaphoriaafter traumatic brain injury
No full textThe use of optical topography for the study of cortical cerebral emotional learning functions
No full textAttention and emotion in anosognosia: evidence of implicit awareness and repression?
No full textAccounts of anosognosia for hemiplegia have long suggested some implicit knowledge of deficit, where lack of awareness is driven by the emotionally-aversive consequences of bringing deficit-related thoughts to consciousness. The present study investigates this issue using an attentional-capture paradigm, presenting words associated with hemiplegia-related deficit. As anticipated, non-anosognosics showed reduced latencies (i.e., facilitation) for emotionally threatening words. In striking contrast, anosognosics showed increased latencies (i.e., interference), a finding which supports the claim of implicit awareness. The effect appears to be due to newly-learned associations to disability-related words: where anosognosics show a pattern of performance previously described as repression
Clinical implications of the “affective neurosciencepersonality scales”: The assessment of depressionin the elderly
No full textDescription and validation of a geriatric multidimensional graphical instrument for promoting longitudinal evaluation
No full textThe debate about the adoption of standard multidimensional geriatric assessment instruments is mainly
due to the lack of consensus on the feasibility and requirements for such instruments by both the health
and the social care professions. A tool called ValGraf was developed in the attempt to give an original
answer to these and other controversial issues. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ValGraf for
acceptability, concurrent validity and factorial structure. The functional and cognitive impairments as
ascertained by the ValGraf were compared with Katz index and Folstein’s Mini Mental State Examination
(MMSE). Subjects (N = 210) of four nursing homes were assessed by two independent teams of nurses.
The factorial validity study involved 8280 subjects living in nursing homes. Assessments were conducted
throughout the 2001 by 20 geriatricians. The agreement between the ValGraf sections concerning
independence in daily living and Katz’s index was almost total (r = 0.96) and that between ValGraf items
on cognition andMMSE was very good (0.73). Factor analysis revealed that 13 coherent factors explained
53% of total variance. ValGraf was proved to be acceptable and comprehensive, criterion valid, at least as
daily activities and cognitive status are concerned, and to have a coherent factorial structure
Validation of the italian translation of the affective neuroscience personality scales
Full text linkSummary.-The theoretical perspective on affective neuroscience advanced by Panksepp, identified six basic innate affective systems: the SEEK, FEAR, ANGER, SADNESS, PLAY, and CARE systems. (3) It has been proposed that the fundamental elements of human personality and its variants may be based on the different expressions of these basic emotional systems and their combinations. A self-report inventory, the Affective Neuroscience Personality Scales (ANPS), has been devised with the aim of studying and evaluating personality from this perspective. This study reports data on the initial validation of ANPS Italian translation on a sample of 418 adult participants. Descriptive statistics for each scale were calculated, assessing also their internal consistency, as a measure of reliability and factorial validity. Acceptable internal consistency was found in all but one scale (SADNESS), and a second-order factor analysis identified a more general affective feature of personality hinging on relational characteristics, independent of the dimensions of general positive and negative affect
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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