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Digital Cognitive Testing in Mitochondrial Disease: Validity and Challenges for Clinical Trial Use

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Primary mitochondrial disease is a group of genetic disorders caused by pathogenic variants in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA, often resulting in progressive neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Current management is primarily supportive, though recent research offers hope for disease‐modifying treatments in the future.
Oksana Pogoryelova, Jan Smeitink, Herma Renkema, Rosabeth White, Frankie Barton, Rachel Lyon, Jane Newman, Aye Moe, Yi Shiau Ng, Grainne Siobhan Gorman   +9 more
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The effects of trait emotional intelligence and sociobiographical variables on communicative anxiety and foreign language anxiety among adult multilinguals: A review and empirical investigation [PDF]

, 2008
This study considered the effects of trait emotional intelligence (trait EI; Petrides & Furnham, 2001) and sociobiographical variables (age, gender, education level, number of languages known, age of onset of acquisition, context of acquisition ...
Petrides, K.V., Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Furnham, A., Vargas-Vera, Maria, Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, Nagy, Miklos, Motta, Enrico, Miklos Nagy   +8 more
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Speaking Anxiety in English Conversation Classrooms Among Thai Students

Malaysian Journal of Learning and Instruction, 2016
Purpose â€“ This paper reports on a part of a larger research project concerning the conceptualisation of English language speaking-in-class anxiety, attitudes to speaking English in class and self-ratings of English-speaking ability, and perceived ...
Songyut Akkakoson
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FUNCTIONS OF SPEAKING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE & SPEAKING ANXIETY

European Journal of English Language Teaching, 2020
Plato once said “a wise man speaks because he has something to say, a fool speaks because he has to say something!” Often the ability to speak (or not) is used to gauge a person’s language proficiency. Speaking is one of the four language skills which includes listening, reading and writing.
Noor Hanim Rahmat, Nor Syahiza Shahabani, Irma Wahyuny Ibrahim   +2 more
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Progressive Parkinsonism in PPP2R5D‐Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT PPP2R5D‐related neurodevelopmental disorder (Houge–Janssens syndrome type 1) is a rare autosomal dominant condition characterized by macrocephaly, intellectual disability, and epilepsy. Progressive parkinsonism is an emerging adult phenotype that neurologists should be aware of since timely genetic diagnosis opens the door to disease‐modifying
Katerina Bernardi, Enrique Gonzalez Saez‐Diez, Joshua Rong, Beril Ay, Shabbir Merchant, Kathryn Yang, Darius Ebrahimi‐Fakhari   +6 more
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Factors Leading to Speaking Anxiety in EFL Classes [PDF]

In this study, 30 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students' speaking anxiety is examined in relation to its contributing elements. Students were chosen in this situation by using the Stratified Sampling Method.
Daskan, Adem, Kucuk, Turgay
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Factors influencing foreign language classroom anxiety: an investigation of English learners in four Japanese universities

, 2013
Over the past three decades there has been increasing interest in foreign language classroom anxiety in both EFL and ESL settings. Many empirical studies have used a standardised tool to measure L2 anxiety in different contexts and findings have shown ...
Effiong, Martins
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Efforts to Increase Self-Efficacy and Reduce Anxiety towards Learning Motivation through English Speaking Skills

JEELS (Journal of English Education and Linguistics Studies)
This research aims to find out how self-efficacy influences students and reduces anxiety about speaking English so that it can increase learning motivation in students' speaking English skills at ASA Indonesia University.
Rindika Pramadanti Rindi
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A Novel KCNA1 Variant in a Patient With Tremor and Autism Spectrum Disorder Causes Mixed LOF/GOF Defects of Kv1.1 Channels

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Variants in KCNA1, encoding the Kv1.1 potassium channel, cause neurological disorders including episodic ataxia and developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. We identified a novel KCNA1 variant (A401T) in a 16‐year‐old patient with autism spectrum disorder, borderline intellectual disability, and tremor, without episodic ataxia or epilepsy ...
Juan Darío Ortigoza‐Escobar, Laura Marti‐Sánchez, Loreto Martorell, Giorgia Dinoi, Antonio Vittorio Buono, Annamaria De Luca, Antonella Liantonio, Paola Imbrici   +7 more
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Speaking anxiety among TVET undergraduates and its implication on graduate employability / Subatira Balakrishnan ... [et al.] [PDF]

Speaking skill is an important predictor in graduate employability. Many job seekers suffer from speaking anxiety and this has affected their job employment opportunities.
Abdullah, Nurlisa Loke, Balakrishnan, Subatira, Loke Abdullah, Loke Abdullah, Khoo, Linda Mei Sui, Thambu Raj, Joseph Alagiaraj   +4 more
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