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Interoception, emotional regulation, and yoga in Functional Neurological Disorder: a psychological perspective
No full textThis thesis explored the role of interoception and emotional regulation in Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) and adds to emerging evidence of yoga as an intervention for this disorder.Chapter 1 introduces FND, a condition characterised by symptoms without identifiable physical pathology and discusses the potential of yoga to address interoception and emotional regulation in FND. It details the need for interventions that stretch beyond traditional approaches, such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy by exploring yoga interventions.Chapter 2 presents a systematic review examining the association of interoception in adult FND and Somatic Symptoms and Related Disorders (SSRD). The review synthesises evidence from seven studies, finding interoception is frequently impaired in FND and SSRD, with the impairment presenting differently across interoceptive domains (accuracy, awareness, and sensibility).Chapter 3 details an original empirical research study investigating a chair-based yoga intervention (INERGY) designed to foster interoception and emotional regulation in adult FND. The study explores protocol feasibility and acceptability, utilising a single-case experimental design. Five participants were included in analysis, with results providing preliminary evidence for the potential of yoga interventions for improving interoception and emotional regulation in FND. Drawing on the yoga philosophy ahimsa, the intervention extended beyond focus on symptom reduction by fostering a shift in responses to symptoms and encouraging a more compassionate and accepting response. Overall, the thesis contributes to the understanding of interoceptive and emotional regulation mechanisms underlying FND symptomology and provides initial support for yoga as intervention approach for this disorder
Dataset supporting the thesis: Interoception, emotional regulation, and yoga in Functional Neurological Disorder: a psychological perspective
No full textThis dataset contains the raw data obtained for the INERGY project, which explored a four-week online chair-based yoga intervention for adult Functional Neurological Disorder. The dataset contains 70 days of daily ratings where participants rated their symptom frequency, impact, and interference on a Likert-scale from 0-10, with higher numbers representing more symptoms, impact, and interference. The dataset also contains the pre-, post-, and follow-up outcome measures investigating psychological and physical health, interoception, and emotional regulation.</span
A meta-analysis of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy efficacy for depression between working age adults and older people.
Full text linkThis meta-analysis investigated CBT efficacy in depression and compared treatment outcomes between working age adults and older people. The aim was to compare outcomes of CBT for depression between working age adults with older people as definite as can be achieved at this stage. This examination is of particular importance due to the aging population, high prevalence levels of depression, increasing demand on IAPT services and stigma attached with older in psychological treatment.
The analysis examined CBT pre-post treatment outcomes, as well as comparing post treatment outcomes between CBT treatment and alternative psychological treatments. Literature searches completed in both age groups applied the inclusion criteria, which resulted to include 19 articles for the working age adults and 12 articles for older people. Data analysis found an overall significant effect for CBT treatment (including both age groups) between pre and post intervention (g= 1.43, 95% CI =1.19 to 1.66, Z= 11.67, p<.000), with no difference between the two age groups. Comparing CBT treatment with other treatments (including both age groups) found a significant result in favour of CBT (g= -0.36, 95% CI= -0.49 to -0.22, Z= -5.216, p<0.000), and no difference was found in this result between working age adults and older people. CBT was for both age groups significantly more efficacious compared to active psychological treatments (g= -0.16, 95% CI= -0.29 to -0.03, Z= -2.35, p<0.02), and significantly more beneficial compared to non-active treatment (g= -0.59, 95% CI= -0.82 to -0.36, Z= -5.02, p<.001). Subgroup analyses on CBT pre and post intervention effect revealed neither intervention format or intervention length influences effect size findings. Quality analyses into the articles included in the meta-analysis showed findings were robust and support the notion of CBT being equally efficacious for depression treatment in older people as in working age adults
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A meta-analysis of CBT efficacy for depression comparing adults and older adults
Full text linkThis meta-analysis investigates CBT treatment efficacy fordepression, and compares outcomes between adults (young and middle aged) and older adults (OA). Methodology. Effect sizes (Hedges' g) were obtained from 37 peer-reviewed RCTs, 25 adult papers (participant n = 2948) and 12 OA papers (participant n = 551), and analysed with the random effects model. Results. No significant difference between age groups is reported in terms of CBT efficacy for depression compared to other treatments (Qbetween (1) = 0.06, p = .89), with the overall effect favouring CBT over any other treatments (g = 0.48, 95 % CI = 0.29–0.68). The same pattern of results was found when restricting studies to those which used active control conditions (Qbetween (1) = 0.03, p = .86) or passive control conditions (Q (1) = 2.45, p = .12). Discussion. No significant differences in efficacy for CBT treatment for depression are found when comparing adults and OA. CBT is as efficacious with OA as with adults
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