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Benefits of categorization training in patients with traumatic brain injury during post-acute rehabilitation: Additional evidence from a randomized controlled trial
(2008)Background: Preliminary research with the Categorization Program (CP) indicated that this therapeutic modality is beneficial in improving cognitive abilities in survivors of moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). ...
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Best practices and recommendations for digital interventions to improve engagement and adherence in chronic illness sufferers
(2019)Chronic illnesses cause considerable burden in quality of life, often leading to physical, psychological, and social dysfunctioning of the sufferers and their family. There is a growing need for flexible provision of ...
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The better of two evils? Evidence that children exhibiting continuous conduct problems high or low on callous-unemotional traits score on opposite directions on physiological and behavioral measures of fear
(Cambridge University Press, 2015)The present study examines whether heterogeneous groups of children identified based on their longitudinal scores on conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits differ on physiological and behavioral measures ...
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Between medicalisation and normalisation: Antithetical representations of depression in the Greek-Cypriot press in times of financial crisis
(2018)Media offer people ways of understanding mental health and illness, shaping their attitudes and behaviour towards it. Yet, the literature on media representations of depression is limited and fails to illuminate sufficiently ...
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Big data approaches to decomposing heterogeneity across the autism spectrum
(2019)Autism is a diagnostic label based on behavior. While the diagnostic criteria attempt to maximize clinical consensus, it also masks a wide degree of heterogeneity between and within individuals at multiple levels of analysis. ...
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Book Chapter
Biological challenges in the assessment of anxiety disorders.
(Klumer Academic/Plenum Publisher., 2001)
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Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism
(2013)In autism, heterogeneity is the rule rather than the exception. One obvious source of heterogeneity is biological sex. Since autism was first recognized, males with autism have disproportionately skewed research. Females ...
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Blocking the solution: <b>S</b> ocial representations of threats and (non)dialogue with alternative representations in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers during peace negotiations
(2019)This paper first identifies representations of threats in Greek‐Cypriot newspapers related to the negotiations for a Cyprus settlement. Then, it identifies how alternative representations to these core representations of ...
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The bold and the fearless among us: Elevated psychopathic traits and levels of anxiety and fear are associated with specific aberrant driving behaviors
(Elsevier Science, 2015)In spite of the well-documented connection between personality traits like impulsivity, sensation seeking and fearlessness with aberrant driving behaviors, scarce research exists to examine the association between risky ...
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Book Review
(Sage Publications Inc, 2000)Reviews the book 'Rethinking Innateness: A Connectionist Perspective on Development,' by J.L. Elman, E. Bates, M.H. Johnson, A. Karmiloff-Smith, D. Parisi and K. Plunket.
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Brain anatomy and its relationship to behavior in adults with autism spectrum disorder: A multicenter magnetic resonance imaging study
(2012)Context: There is consensus that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is accompanied by differences in neuroanatomy. However, the neural substrates of ASD during adulthood, as well as how these relate to behavioral variation, ...
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Brain and behavioral correlates of action semantic deficits in autism
(2013)Action-perception circuits containing neurons in the motor system have been proposed as the building blocks of higher cognition; accordingly, motor dysfunction should entail cognitive deficits. Autism spectrum conditions ...
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Brain Reserve as a Predictor of Functional Outcome in Chronic Moderate-to-Severe TBI
(2018)To investigate whether individuals with moderate-to-severe TBI will differ on Brain Reserve (i.e. the brain’s capacity to may sustain a certain amount of pathological change before the emergence of the associated clinical ...
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Brain routes for reading in adults with and without autism: EMEG evidence
(2014)Reading utilises at least two neural pathways. The temporal lexical route visually maps whole words to their lexical entries, whilst the nonlexical route decodes words phonologically via parietal cortex. Readers typically ...
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Brain surface anatomy in adults with autism: The relationship between surface area, cortical thickness, and autistic symptoms
(2013)Context: Neuroimaging studies of brain anatomy in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have mostly been based on measures of cortical volume (CV). However, CV is a product of 2 distinct parameters, cortical thickness (CT) and ...
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Brain Volume Predicts Self Awareness and Quality of Life in Chronic Moderate-Severe TBI
(2018)To investigate the predictive value of brain volume in regions associated with Self Awareness (SA) and Quality of Life (QOL) in individuals with chronic moderate, severe TBI and healthy controls.
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Brains, computer games, and behavior: What do they have to do with progress in behavior therapy?
(2002)
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Bridging Reading Comprehension and Conceptual Change in Science Education: The Promise of Refutation Text
(Wiley, International Reading Association], 2011)The use of texts in science classrooms has waned significantly over the past two decades. However, recently, researchers have shown renewed interest in the use of refutation texts as a tool for promoting conceptual change ...