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Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2016 The debate about the validity of the Rorschach test, compared with psychometric inventories, is particularly relevant in the forensic evaluation. The aim of the study is to present an overview on the control indices proposed in Rorschach (e.g. R, F%,
Santo F. Di Nuovo, Sabrina Castellano
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Influence of Context on Item Parameters in Forced-Choice Personality Assessments [PDF]
, 2016 A fundamental assumption in computerized adaptive testing (CAT) is that item parameters are invariant with respect to context – items surrounding the administered item.
Anna Brown +14 more
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Homeostasis of Gut Microbiota Protects against Susceptibility to Fungal Pneumonia
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Fungal pneumonia induces inflammation, shown by heightened IL‐6, IL‐1β, TNF‐α levels and a growth in Staphylococcus in the alveolar flora. The gut microbiota, acting through the gut‐lung axis via blood, impacts fungal pneumonia susceptibility by altering lung metabolism and inflammatory responses.
Jian Ji +12 more
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Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão: The assessment of personality disorders assumes unquestioned clinical relevance when considering the prevalence rates in the general population. Tests assessing the typical pathological traits of these disorders has been adapted to and developed in ...
Lucas de Francisco Carvalho +2 more
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Battling on the Home Front: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Conflict Behavior Among Military Couples [PDF]
, 2017 This study evaluated interpersonal behavior differences among male military service members with and without PTSD and their female partners. Couples (N = 64) completed a 17-minute videotaped conflict discussion, and their interaction behavior was coded ...
Caska-Walace, Catherine +3 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This double‐blind, placebo‐controlled study demonstrates that intranasal oxytocin reduces subjective fear in immersive, naturalistic social (but not non‐social) contexts. Concomitant fMRI reveals that oxytocin enhances middle cingulate activity and amygdala connectivity while it modulates network‐level connectivity and attenuates reactivity of a brain ...
Kun Fu +17 more
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Psychiatric Assessment in Patients with Mild Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Behavioural Neurology, 2019 Objectives. The findings of previous studies focused on personality disorders in epileptic patients are difficult to interpret due to nonhomogeneous samples and noncomparable methods.
Antonella Bruni +8 more
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Evaluation of convergent and discriminant validity of the Russian version of MMPI-2: First results [PDF]
Национальный психологический журнал, 2015 The paper presents the results of construct validity testing for a new version of the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory), which restandardization started in 1982 (J.N. Butcher, W.G. Dahlstrom, J.R. Graham, A. Tellegen, B.
Emma I. Mescheriakova +2 more
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Metacognition as a predictor of improvements in personality disorders [PDF]
, 2019 Personality Disorders (PDs) are particularly hard to treat and treatment drop-out rates are high. Several authors have agreed that psychotherapy is more successful when it focuses on the core of personality pathology.
Antonino Carcione +13 more
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A Replicable and Generalizable Neuroimaging‐Based Indicator of Pain Sensitivity Across Individuals
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Humans differ in their sensitivity to pain. With six large and diverse fMRI datasets (total N = 1046), this study finds that such individual differences in pain sensitivity can be tracked by fMRI responses to painful stimuli. A highly generalizable machine learning model is further built to predict pain sensitivity across all datasets and analgesic ...
Li‐Bo Zhang +7 more
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