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Anarchic hand with abnormal agency following right inferior parietal lobe damage : a case report
Jenkinson, P.; Edelstyn, Nicola M. J.; Preston, Catherine; Ellis, Simon J. (2015)Anarchic hand syndrome (AHS) is characterized by goal-directed movements performed without volitional control (agency). Different AHS subtypes have been identified; however, few studies have examined the posterior subtype. ... -
And Now for Something Completely Different: Inattentional Blindness during a Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline (2015-02-01)Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series “Monty ... -
Anger amongst New Zealand drivers
Sullman, M J M (2006-05)This research investigated the types of situations that cause drivers to become angry while driving. The Driver Anger Scale [Deffenbacher, J. L., Oetting, E. R., & Lynch, R. S. (1994). Development of a driver anger scale. ... -
Anger, disgust, and presumption of harm as reactions to taboo-breaking behaviors
Gutierrez, Roberto; Giner-Sorolla, Roger (2007-11)Three experiments investigated the relationship between the presumption of harm in harmfree violations of creatural norms (taboos) and the moral emotions of anger and disgust. In Experiment 1, participants made a presumption ... -
Animated characters in bullying intervention
Woods, Sarah; Hall, L.; Sobral, D.; Dautenhahn, K.; Wolke, D. (2003)The VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Empathic Characters) project explores the use of animated characters in virtual environments for educational issues, such as bullying behaviour. 76 participants evaluated a prototype of the ... -
Anosognosia for hemiplegia as a global deficit in motor awareness : evidence from the non-paralysed limb
Preston, C.; Jenkinson, P.; Newport, Roger (2010)The current study adds to the growing empirical research into the mechanisms underlying unawareness of paralysis following stroke (anosognosia for hemiplegia or AHP) by investigating action awareness for the non-paralysed ... -
Anosognosia for plegia : specificity, extension, partiality and disunity of bodily unawareness
Marcel, A.J.; Tegner, R.; Nimmo-Smith, I. (2004)This study of anosognosia for hemiplegia investigated: whether it is homogeneous; specificity to plegia of unawareness; extension to different kinds of and objects of awareness regarding plegia; partiality of unawareness. ... -
Answering contextually demanding questions : pragmatic errors produced by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
Loukusa, S.; Leinonen, E.; Jussila, K.; Mattila, M.; Ryder, N.; Ebeling, H.; Moilanen, I. (2007)This study examined irrelevant/incorrect answers produced by children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism (7–9-year-olds and 10–12-year-olds) and normally developing children (7–9-year-olds). The errors ... -
Answering questions and explaining answers : a study of Finnish-speaking children
Loukusa, S.; Ryder, N.; Leinonen, E. (2008)This research explores, within the framework of Relevance Theory, how children’s ability to answer questions and explain their answers develops between the ages of 3 and 9 years. Two hundred and ten normally developing ... -
Antecedents of schizophrenia and affective illness : Obstetric complications
Sacker, A.; Done, D.J.; Crow, T.J.; Golding, J. (1995) -
The application of psychodynamic ideas to professional dance training
Buckroyd, J. (2001)Concern about the welfare of professional dance students is growing as it becomes clearer that the training is not producing emotionally healthy and mature young people. Psychodynamic ideas and concepts offer a means of ... -
Are placebo-controlled trials still important for obsessive compulsive disorder?
Fineberg, Naomi; Hawley, C.; Gale, T.M. (2006)The use of placebos as reference agents in randomised controlled trials for psychiatric disorders has come under question for ethical reasons. Alternative methods for validating the efficacy of new treatments exist, but ... -
ARTIST : a computer system for creating and running psychology experiments
Kornbrot, D. (1981)A flexible computer system for research and teaching experiments in psychology is described. Special features of the system include {1} separate phases for the generation and running of experiments, !2} facilities to control ... -
Arts Therapies And Psychotherapy Training: An International Survey
Payne, Helen (2002)This paper presents a comparative analysis of data received from the dissemination of a qualitative questionnaire to 12 countries. The survey was concerned with the extent to which group therapy was incorporated into the ... -
Assessing patients' participation and quality of decision-making: insights from a study of routine practice in diverse settings
Entwistle, V.A.; Watt, I.S.; Gilhooly, K.; Bugge, C.; Haites, N.; Walker, A.E. (2004)In the context of a qualitative study exploring patients’ participation in decision-making, we investigated how people interpret and respond to structured questions about decision-making about their health care. Seventy-four ... -
Assessing the quality of decision support technologies using the International Patient Decision Aid Standards instrument (IPDASi)
Elwyn, Glyn; O'Connor, Annette M; Bennett, Carol; Newcombe, Robert G; Politi, Mary; Durand, Marie-Anne; Drake, Elizabeth; Joseph-Williams, Natalie; Khangura, Sara; Saarimaki, Anton; Sivell, Stephanie; Stiel, Mareike; Bernstein, Steven J; Col, Nananda; Coulter, Angela; Eden, Karen; Härter, Martin; Rovner, Margaret Holmes; Moumjid, Nora; Stacey, Dawn; Thomson, Richard; Whelan, Tim; van der Weijden, Trudy; Edwards, Adrian (2009)To describe the development, validation and inter-rater reliability of an instrument to measure the quality of patient decision support technologies (decision aids). -
Assessment of changes in tumor heterogeneity following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in primary esophageal cancer
Yip, C.; Davnall, F.; Kozarski, R.; Landau, D. B.; Cook, G. J R; Ross, P.; Mason, R.; Goh, V. (2015-02)To assess the changes in computed tomography (CT) tumor heterogeneity following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in esophageal cancer. Thirty-one consecutive patients who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy for esophageal cancer ... -
Assessment of Primary Colorectal Cancer Heterogeneity by Using Whole-Tumor Texture Analysis : Contrast-enhanced CT Texture as a Biomarker of 5-year Survival
Ng, Francesca; Ganeshan, Balaji; Kozarski, Robert; Miles, Kenneth A.; Goh, Vicky (2013)To determine if computed tomographic (CT) texture features of primary colorectal cancer are related to 5-year overall survival rate -
Assessment of tumor heterogeneity by CT texture analysis : Can the largest cross-sectional area be used as an alternative to whole tumor analysis?
Ng, Francesca; Kozarski, Robert; Ganeshan, Balaji; Goh, Vicky (2013)To determine if there is a difference between contrast enhanced CT texture features from the largest cross-sectional area versus the whole tumor, and its effect on clinical outcome prediction. Methods: Entropy (E) and ... -
An association between depressive symptoms and survival in incident dialysis patients
Chilcot, Joseph; Davenport, Andrew; Wellsted, D.; Firth, John; Farrington, Ken (2011)Depression in end-stage renal disease patients is detrimental to quality of life, and is also associated with adverse clinical outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine whether depression symptoms in 'incident dialysis' ...