Browsing by Subject "Neuropsychology"
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Affective touch: A meta-analysis on perceived pleasantness in healthy adults
(2022)Interpersonal touch plays an important role in human life and has physical and mental health benefits during development and adulthood. A specific type of interpersonal touch that is experienced as pleasant is affective ... -
Anosognosia in patients during transient hemispheric anesthesia
(2020)Abstract thesis Individualized functional mapping before epilepsy surgery is important, as the localization of function is variable among patients and may be influenced by epilepsy. The “golden standard” in testing language ... -
Aphasia after traumatic brain injury: Recovery and prediction of verbal communication outcome after inpatient rehabilitation
(2018)In aphasia the ability to communicate is severely affected, causing a great impact in the lives of patients, family and caregivers. Thus far, little is known about the recovery of aphasia and prognosis of verbal communication ... -
Auditory Localization and the Brainstem
(2022)The way sound is perceived and located in our brain varies due to various reasons. These would be the differences in the intensity or the time of the incoming sound stimuli, or due to personal differences of the listener. ... -
Chronic Itch Relief Through Affective Touch in Romantic Couples
(2022)Chronic itch is a common condition in dermatological diseases that severely impacts the patients’ quality of life. The majority of them also suffer from psychiatric disorders. It is a heavy burden especially for those that ... -
Clinical Phenotypes in Behavioural Variant Frontotemporal Dementia and Primary Psychiatric Disorders
(2022)Frontotemporal dementia is the second most common form of dementia under the age of 65 years, of which behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) is a subtype. In clinical practice, much overlap exists between ... -
Differences in the distribution of reaction times of single and double decisions and their relations to working memory
(2022)Aging is an important factor for decreased performance on single reaction time tasks. However, single decisions in reaction time tasks might not contain the most predictive power of everyday cognitive functioning in people. ... -
Emotion recognition and physical activity in severe mental illness patients with mild intellectual disability
(2019)Severe mental illness (SMI) and mild intellectual disability (MID) often co-occur and are both characterized by deficits in emotion recognition and low rates of physical activity (PA). This results in impaired social, ... -
Emotion recognition at different intensities in borderline personality disorder patients compared to healthy controls
(2018)Borderline personality disorder is characterized by emotional dysregulation and underlying deficiencies in emotion recognition. This study investigated whether patients are more accurate in recognizing emotions that signify ... -
Emotion Recognition Training in Borderline Personality Disorder
(2018)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotional instability and unstable interpersonal relations. Critical to social functioning is being able to identify emotions in others. It has been argued that BPD ... -
Gray Matter Pathology In Clinical Parkinson’s Disease Subtypes: A Seed-based Structural Covariance Analysis
(2018)Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a highly heterogeneous condition and various clinical subtypes have been discriminated. The objective of this study was to investigate differences in subcortical-cortical structural ... -
Impairments in verbal and spatial working memory as a predictor of psychopathology in offspring of patients with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder
(2019)Schizophrenia offspring (SZo) and bipolar disorder offspring (BDo) are at an increased risk for developing psychopathology. To recognize at-risk individuals early, more insight into the vulnerability markers of both disorders ... -
Implications of cerebellar anatomy and functioning on fluid intelligence and the moderating effects of trait anxiety __________________________________________________
(2020)The role of the cerebellum in cognitive performance has started to be investigated in recent years. In particular, experimental data of healthy subjects points towards contributions of Crus I and II in inductive reasoning ... -
Influencing Postauricular Reflex Magnitude Using Reward in a Motivational Task
(2022)This study investigates the magnitude of the post-auricular muscle reflex (PAMR) in response to feedback about low and high rewards in order to determine whether the reflex could be used as an implicit measure of individual ... -
Investigating Prevalence of Disordered Eating and its Association to Risky Sexual Behaviour, in Filipino University Students
(2019)Eating disorders (ED) are a serious illness that can have detrimental effects on a individuals psychosocial functioning. Though the aetiology still remains unclear, there have been various investigations examining the ... -
Involvement of white matter in cognitive flexibility in patients with right hemisphere glioma.
(2019)As key element of executive function, cognitive flexibility incorporates multiple component processes, enabling adaptation in response to a constantly changing environment. Preserving cognitive flexibility during surgical ... -
Itching for Affective Touch: Studying the Influence of Temperature and Velocity on Itch Reduction
(2022)Itch is an understudied and poorly understood symptom of various dermatological conditions for which treatment is still sparse. Research has shown that affective touch (AT), or touch delivered at 3 cm/s, exerts inhibitory ...