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Beer, wine, and social anxiety: Testing the "self-medication hypothesis" in the US and Cyprus
(2011)The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might ...
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A behavioral comparison of male and female adults with high functioning autism spectrum conditions
(2011)Autism spectrum conditions (ASC) affect more males than females in the general population. However, within ASC it is unclear if there are phenotypic sex differences. Testing for similarities and differences between the ...
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Behavioral methods in the treatment of individuals suffering from learning disabilities and related neuropsychological problems.
(Parisianou Publications, 2011)
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Behavioural inhibition and hyperactivity: A commentary from alternative perspectives
(2003)Attention disorders in the school population include attention deficit, hyperactivity and conduct disorders. A key concept for distinguishing hyperactive from attention disorders is behavioural inhibition as advocated by ...
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Behind the scenes of pseudo-proportionality
(2008)In this study, we attempt to put in question students' spontaneous and uncritical application of the simple and neat mathematical formula of linearity. This is impelled with the help of a written test involving geometrical ...
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Beliefs of experienced and novice teachers about achievement
(2008)The aim of this study was to examine the beliefs that experienced and novice teachers hold about school achievement. It is important to investigate these beliefs and attributions because of the significant role that teachers ...
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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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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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