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Cognitive deficits in problematic internet use : meta-analysis of 40 studies
(2019-11-01)BACKGROUND: Excessive use of the internet is increasingly recognised as a global public health concern. Individual studies have reported cognitive impairment in problematic internet use (PIU), but have suffered from various ... -
Cognitive deficits induced by multi-walled carbon nanotubes via the autophagic pathway
(2015-11-04)Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) have shown potential applications in many fields, especially in the field of biomedicine. Several studies have reported that MWCNTs induce apoptosis and oxidative damage in nerve cells ... -
The Cognitive Dimensions of an Artifact vis-a-vis Individual Human Users : Studies with Notations for the Temporal
(2001)Cognitive Technology explores ways in which the cognitive fit between people and technology may be optimized. If this goal is to be achieved we will require methods of assessing tools and information arftifacts in order ... -
Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology
(2001)The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework has been created to assist the designers of notational systems and information artifacts to evaluate their designs with respect to the impact that they will have on the users ... -
Cognitive dysfunction in body dysmorphic disorder : new implications for nosological systems and neurobiological models
(2017-02-28)Introduction Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a debilitating disorder, characterized by obsessions and compulsions relating specifically to perceived appearance, and which has been newly classified within the Diagnostic ... -
Cognitive function and social abilities in patients with schizophrenia: relationship with atypical antipsychotics
(2006)Although atypical antipsychotics have been associated with improvements in cognitive function in schizophrenia, the neurochemical basis for such effects is not well understood. Candidate neurotransmitter systems primarily ... -
Cognitive inflexibility, obsessive-compulsive symptoms and traits and poor post-pandemic adjustment
(2024-05-23)The ability to flexibly adapt thoughts and behaviours represents a fundamental attribute for behavioural success. Impairments in aspects of cognitive flexibility are found as transdiagnostic latent phenotypes of ... -
A cognitive neuropsychological and psychophysiological investigation of a patient who exhibited an acute exacerbated response during innocuous somatosensory stimulation and movement
(2004)We report findings from a cognitive neuropsychological and psychophysiological investigation of a patient who displayed an exacerbated acute emotional expression during movement, innocuous, and aversive somatosensory ... -
The cognitive penetrability of perception
(Nova Science Publishers, 2005)The question of the extent to which perception is cognitively penetrated is an ambiguous one. Perception can be understood as a process occurring at the level of vehicles (V-perception) or at the level of content (C-perception) ... -
Cognitive performance and specific deficits in OCD symptom dimensions : II. Spatial memory and impaired recognition of visuospatial object locations
(2011)Objective : To investigate spatial recognition abilities and working memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients grouped according to their primary symptom dimensions. Memory has always occupied a central position ... -
Cognitive performance and specific deficits in OCD symptom dimensions : III. Decision-making and impairments in risky choices
(2011)Objective : To investigate ambiguous and risky decision-making in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients grouped according to established primary symptom dimensions. The difficulties of OCD patients in real-life quite ... -
Cognitive performance and specific deficits in OCD symptom dimensions: I.Olfactory perception and impaired recognition of disgust
(2010)Objective: To investigate the ability of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in identifying pleasant and disgusting smells. Methods: Participants were 55 OCD patients and 80 healthy controls, also matched for ... -
Cognitive Processing of Threat Information in Female Eating Disorder Patients: The Role of Attentional Bias and Cognitive Avoidance
(2008-02-12)This study considers and explores the relationship between eating disorders and the cognitive processes of attentional bias and cognitive avoidance. These processes are also considered in terms of their contribution to ... -
Cognitive therapy for patients with schizophrenia
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Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) for renal fatigue (BReF) : a feasibility randomised-controlled trial of CBT for the management of fatigue in haemodialysis (HD) patients
(2018-03-01)INTRODUCTION: Fatigue is one of the most common and disabling symptoms in end-stage kidney disease, particularly among in-centre haemodialysis patients. This two-arm parallel group feasibility randomised controlled trial ... -
Cognitive-behavioural therapy for the symptoms of schizophrenia : systematic review and meta-analysis with examination of potential bias
(2014-01-31)BACKGROUND: Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is considered to be effective for the symptoms of schizophrenia. However, this view is based mainly on meta-analysis, whose findings can be influenced by failure to consider ... -
Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star-planet interaction
(2020-02-17)Low-frequency (ν ≲ 150 MHz) stellar radio emission is expected to originate in the outer corona at heights comparable to and larger than the stellar radius. Such emission from the Sun has been used to study coronal structure, ... -
Coherent transport and concentration of particles in optical traps using varying transverse beam profiles
(2005)Tailored time-dependent variations of the transverse profile together with longitudinal phase shifts of laser beams are studied. It is shown theoretically that a standing wave setup and real-time beam forming techniques ... -
Cohesion as ‘common sense’: Everyday narratives of community and cohesion in New Labour’s Britain
(2016-07-07)This article engages with popular narratives of community and cohesion, explored through a series of focus groups in Bradford and Birmingham. This article argues that the participants interviewed used discourses propagated ...