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Acting without being in control: Exploring volition in Parkinson's disease with impulsive compulsive behaviours. [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: Several aspects of volitional control of action may be relevant in the pathophysiology of impulsive-compulsive behaviours (ICB) in Parkinson's disease (PD).
de Boer, L, Edwards, MJ, Haggard, P, Morgante, F, Ricciardi, L, Sorbera, C, Stenner, M-P   +6 more
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Growth control: Action mouse [PDF]

Current Biology, 1997
A recently described knockout mouse has abnormally large muscles. The phenotype suggests that the ablated product, growth differentiation factor 8 or 'myostatin', may be one of the long sought inhibitors that control the growth of individual tissues and organs.
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Sequential Modulations in a Combined Horizontal and Vertical Simon Task: Is There ERP Evidence for Feature Integration Effects?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
In the Simon task, participants respond faster when the task-irrelevant stimulus position and the response position are corresponding, for example on the same side, compared to when they have a non-corresponding relation. Interestingly, this Simon effect
Katharina Hoppe, Kristina Küper, Edmund Wascher   +2 more
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Orbital frontal cortex updates state-induced value change for decision-making

eLife, 2018
Recent hypotheses have posited that orbital frontal cortex (OFC) is important for using inferred consequences to guide behavior. Less clear is OFC’s contribution to goal-directed or model-based behavior, where the decision to act is controlled by ...
Emily T Baltz, Ege A Yalcinbas, Rafael Renteria, Christina M Gremel   +3 more
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Potential consequences of expanded MUAC-only programs on targeting of acutely malnourished children and ready-to-use-therapeutic-food allocation: lessons from cross-sectional surveys

BMC Nutrition, 2020
Background Some of the recently piloted innovative approaches for the management of acute malnutrition in children use the “expanded MUAC-only” approach, with Mid Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC)
Benjamin Guesdon, Alexia Couture, Danka Pantchova, Oleg Bilukha   +3 more
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The Relationship of Thinking Style and Motivation Features of Sales and Advertising Managers

Behavioral Sciences, 2020
The thinking of a manager is conditioned by their motivational features which determine their personal professional success and the effectiveness of the organization’s activities.
Alla Belousova, Yulia Mochalova
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Binding of Task-Irrelevant Action Features and Auditory Action Effects

Journal of Cognition, 2022
Discrete task-relevant features of an overt response, such as response location, are bound to, and retrieved by coincidentally occurring auditory stimuli.
Sámuel Varga, Roland Pfister, Bence Neszmélyi, Wilfried Kunde, János Horváth   +4 more
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Clarifying the Role of Negative Emotions in the Origin and Control of Impulsive Actions

Psychologica Belgica, 2020
This critical review elaborates on the origin of impulsive actions and how these can be controlled. We focus in particular on the role of negative events. First, we outline how impulsive actions often originate from negative events that are (emotionally)
Charlotte Eben, Joël Billieux, Frederick Verbruggen   +2 more
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Implementing a pragmatic randomised controlled trial in a humanitarian setting: lessons learned from the TISA trial

Trials
Introduction High-quality evidence is crucial for guiding effective humanitarian responses, yet conducting rigorous research, particularly randomised controlled trials, in humanitarian crises remains challenging.
D. S. N’Diaye, S. Frison, M. Ba, M. L. Lê, A. E. Cabo, F. Siroma, A. Devort, C. MacLeod, J. Lapègue, M. Seye, A. B. Traoré, T. Cerveau, D. Léger, K. Gallandat, Y. Gnokane, A. Vargas Brizuela, S. Stern, L. Braun, O. Cumming   +18 more
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The Physical Model in Action: Quality Control for X-Shooter

, 2010
The data reduction pipeline for the VLT 2nd generation instrument X-Shooter uses a physical model to determine the optical distortion and derive the wavelength calibration.
Bristow, Paul, Kerber, Florian, Modigliani, Andrea, Moehler, Sabine, Vernet, Joel   +4 more
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