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Benefits of Implicit Regulation of Instructed Fear: Evidence From Neuroimaging and Functional Connectivity

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2020
Instructed fear, which denotes fearful emotions learned from others’ verbal instructions, is an important form of fear acquisition in humans. Maladaptive instructed fear produces detrimental effects on health, but little is known about performing an ...
Yicheng Zhang   +9 more
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The stress-vulnerability model on the path to schizophrenia: Interaction between BDNF methylation and schizotypy on the resting-state brain network

open access: yesnpj Schizophrenia, 2022
The interplay between schizophrenia liability and environmental influences has been considered to be responsible for the development of schizophrenia. Recent neuroimaging studies have linked aberrant functional connectivity (FC) between the default-mode ...
Hye Yoon Park   +6 more
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Demonstration of an app-delivered digital therapeutic program for methamphetamine use disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
This study assessed the feasibility and utility of a digital, all-virtual program designed for treatment of methamphetamine use disorder (MUD). Forty-nine adults with moderate- to severe-level MUD (per DSM-5 criteria) commenced the 8-week intervention ...
Kristin Muhlner   +5 more
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Affective Paternalism

open access: yesBehavioural Public Policy, 2021
Many decisions are curated, incentivised, or nudged by a third party. Despite this, only a handful of studies have looked at paternalistic decision-makers and the processes by which they arrive at their decisions. The role of affect, in particular, has been ignored so far, and yet restricting agency on a potentially large group of people might be ...
Paul Dolan   +2 more
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Negative dream affect is associated with next-day affect level, but not with affect reactivity or affect regulation

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022
There is increasing evidence that sleep plays an important role in affective processing. However, it is unclear whether dreaming—the subjective experiences we have during sleep—also serves an affect regulation function. Here, we investigated the within-person relationship between negative affect experienced in dreams and next-day waking affect level ...
Pilleriin Sikka   +6 more
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Controversy and Growth Points in the Activity Theory in Psychology [PDF]

open access: yesPsychology in Russia: State of Art, 2021
Background. Activity theory is the most powerful and influential current of Russian psychology in the world today. It considers the psyche to be a special form or function of object-oriented activity.
Andrey D. Maidansky
doaj   +1 more source

The Importance of Multimodal Emotion Conditioning and Affect Consistency for Embodied Conversational Agents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Previous studies regarding the perception of emotions for embodied virtual agents have shown the effectiveness of using virtual characters in conveying emotions through interactions with humans. However, creating an autonomous embodied conversational agent with expressive behaviors presents two major challenges. The first challenge is the difficulty of
arxiv   +1 more source

Anxiety and Depression Assessments in a Mouse Model of Congenital Blindness

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Previous studies have reported that visual impairment can affect the quality of life leading to mental health disorders. This study aimed to investigate associations between vision impairment, depression and anxiety using a mouse model of congenital ...
Nouhaila Bouguiyoud   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Affective visualization in Virtual Reality: An integrative review [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, 630731 (2021), 2020
A cluster of research in Affective Computing suggests that it is possible to infer some characteristics of users' affective states by analyzing their electrophysiological activity in real-time. However, it is not clear how to use the information extracted from electrophysiological signals to create visual representations of the affective states of ...
arxiv   +1 more source

DNA methylation profiling to assess pathogenicity of BRCA1 unclassified variants in breast cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Germline pathogenic mutations in BRCA1 increase risk of developing breast cancer. Screening for mutations in BRCA1 frequently identifies sequence variants of unknown pathogenicity and recent work has aimed to develop methods for determining pathogenicity.
AFFECT   +10 more
core   +1 more source

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