Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ryota Kobayashi, Makoto Miyatani, Takashi Nakao
Summary: Previous research suggests that distraction can reduce negative emotion, and this effect is influenced by individual differences in working memory capacity. Participants with higher working memory capacity expressed less negative emotion after engaging in a distraction task.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Daniela Gresch, Sage E. P. Boettcher, Freek van Ede, Anna C. Nobre
Summary: Temporal expectations can reduce the detrimental effects of external interference on working memory performance, whether from ignoreable distractors or interrupters that require a response. These findings suggest that temporal expectations may play an important role in safeguarding behavior based on working memory through mechanisms that involve the shielding of internal content from external interference.
Article
Oncology
Annelise A. Madison, Rebecca Andridge, Anthony H. Kantaras, Megan E. Renna, Jeanette M. Bennett, Catherine M. Alfano, Stephen P. Povoski, Doreen M. Agnese, Maryam Lustberg, Robert Wesolowski, William E. Carson III, Nicole O. Williams, Raquel E. Reinbolt, Sagar D. Sardesai, Anne M. Noonan, Daniel G. Stover, Mathew A. Cherian, William B. Malarkey, Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Summary: Depression combined with inflammation or intestinal permeability may contribute to poorer subjective and objective cognitive function in breast cancer survivors. These findings suggest that survivors with depression accompanied by immune dysregulation may be more aware of depression-related cognitive deficits compared to other depressed survivors.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Leanne Boucher, Brandi Viparina, W. Matthew Collins
Summary: The study found that inhibitory control can be influenced by placing demands on working memory. Specifically, a higher working memory load condition lengthened the STOP process, as evidenced by differences in stop signal reaction time, while the GO process remained unaffected. Working memory capacity could not account for differences across the load conditions.
PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Oded Meiron, Jonathan David, Asaf Yaniv
Summary: Early auditory processing deficits are associated with executive attention and working memory functioning in schizophrenia patients. However, this relationship is not observed in healthy controls. Specifically, auditory change-detection event-related potentials are significantly associated with verbal working memory performance in schizophrenia patients. Additionally, the severity of the illness and negative symptoms in schizophrenia patients is related to working memory reaction times and accuracy.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Matthew F. Panichello, Timothy J. Buschman
Summary: Cognitive control guides behavior by controlling what, when, and how information is represented in the brain. Prefrontal cortex acts as a domain-general controller for both selection and attention, while parietal and visual cortex represent attention and selection independently. Selection and attention facilitate behavior by enhancing and transforming the representation of selected memory or attended stimulus.
Article
Neurosciences
Kyle J. Comishen, Ellen Bialystok
Summary: This study explored the performance differences of monolingual and bilingual participants on executive function tasks, revealing that monolinguals showed greater declines in more difficult task conditions and more effortful processing across all conditions.
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Gangqiang Ding, Weidong Ye, Bihua Cao, Fuhong Li
Summary: In this study, the researchers investigated the effect of set size on object switching in working memory. The results showed that the switch cost was greater in the large-size condition compared to the small-size condition. They also found an interaction between set size and transition in both the N2 and P3 components of the event-related potentials, indicating that the effort to inhibit irrelevant items increases with set size.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Kelley E. Gunther, Koraly Perez-Edgar
Summary: Temperamental Behavioral Inhibition (BI) is a well-established risk factor for social anxiety, but not all BI children will show anxious symptoms. The role of inhibitory control levels as a risk or protective factor for these children is debated, with mixed research findings on whether higher levels of inhibitory control may increase or decrease the risk of developing anxiety. The idea of elevated inhibitory control as a risk factor for maladaptation contradicts prior beliefs about the advantages of proficient inhibitory control.
DEVELOPMENTAL REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Nicole Hakim, Tobias Feldmann-Wustefeld, Edward Awh, Edward K. Vogel
Summary: This study suggests that attentional capture can be broken down into at least two distinct subcomponent processes: spatial capture and item-based capture. Relevant information triggers both spatial and item-based capture, while irrelevant information only triggers spatial capture.
Article
Neurosciences
Tiziana Pedale, Aurelie Fontan, Filip Grill, Fredrik Bergstrom, Johan Eriksson
Summary: This study investigates the identification and use of task-relevant information in working memory for nonconscious stimuli. The results indicate that nonconscious task-relevant information can be used in a goal-directed manner, but there is a mismatch in the attentional mechanisms involved between conscious and nonconscious working memory.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Margo W. Menkes, Carolyn M. Andrews, Helen J. Burgess, Isabel Carley, David F. Marshall, Scott A. Langenecker, Melvin G. McInnis, Patricia J. Deldin, Kelly A. Ryan
Summary: Individuals with bipolar I disorder (BD-I) have poorer sleep quality and neuropsychological functioning compared to healthy controls, and poor sleep quality is associated with learning, memory, and executive functioning impairments, with similar effects across groups.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Allison L. Bruning, Meghan M. Mallya, Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock
Summary: Depressed individuals have reduced working memory capacity and a tendency to fixate on negative information. This study examines how characteristics of psychiatric illnesses, such as rumination, affect the ability to update emotional information in working memory. Results show that individuals with high rumination and low working memory capacity are more likely to make false alarms to replaced images, and negative stimuli are more difficult to remove from working memory compared to neutral stimuli.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Rui Shi, Mingming Qi, Heming Gao
Summary: The study investigated the neural activity of color-based center-surround inhibition in working memory. Results showed the existence of color-based center-surround inhibition during encoding and retrieval processes, indicating a greater interference between similar items.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Naomi Langerock, Giuliana Sposito, Caro Hautekiet, Evie Vergauwe
Summary: This study replicated Johnson et al.'s research on the inhibition of return effect in working memory, finding that accessing a refreshed working memory representation is more difficult.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Anesthesiology
Robert Andrew Moore, Emma Fisher, Christopher Eccleston
Summary: This article points out the problems that exist in current systematic reviews, including low-quality trials, insufficient rigor in review methodology, ignorance of key pain issues, small sample sizes, and over-optimistic judgments about treatment effects. The authors argue that the majority of systematic reviews have fatal flaws and only a small percentage have adequate methods and clinical usefulness, therefore their results should be dismissed. The authors call for critical systematic reviews to improve trial quality and advocate for their encouragement and protection.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Patrice Forget, Champika Patullo, Duncan Hill, Atul Ambekar, Alex Baldacchino, Juan Cata, Sean Chetty, Felicia J. Cox, Hans D. de Boer, Kieran Dinwoodie, Geert Dom, Christopher Eccleston, Brona Fullen, Liisa Jutila, Roger D. Knaggs, Patricia Lavand'homme, Nicholas Levy, Dileep N. Lobo, Esther Pogatzki-Zahn, Norbert Scherbaum, Blair H. Smith, Joop van Griensven, Steve Gilbert
Summary: This study presents a consensus statement on the appropriate use of opioids for acute pain management. Through a modified Delphi methodology, the research panel developed consensus statements focusing on system-level policies to improve the safety and quality of opioid prescribing. The results show agreement among a multidisciplinary panel, including patient representation, on the prioritization of system-level interventions.
BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Anesthesiology
Neil E. O'Connell, R. Andrew Moore, Gavin Stewart, Emma Fisher, Leslie Hearn, Christopher Eccleston, Amanda C. de C. Williams
Summary: This study systematically examined multiple related trials from the same author to investigate the bias risk, governance procedures, and trustworthiness of the research. The results revealed significant differences between some of the trial results and the existing evidence, and the explanations provided by the author were not satisfactory. The study further identified issues related to research governance, data plausibility, results, and data duplication. These findings decrease the trustworthiness of the trials.
Article
Anesthesiology
Christopher Eccleston, Emma Fisher, Sammeli Liikkanen, Toni Sarapohja, Carina Stenfors, Satu K. Jaaskelainen, Andrew S. C. Rice, Leena Mattila, Taru Blom, J. Raymond Bratty
Summary: Adults with chronic low back pain were recruited for a trial of a novel digital therapeutic intervention called DTxP. The study found that participants in the DTxP group reported greater reductions in fear of movement and better global impression of change when compared with sham placebo and standard care post treatment. No other significant group differences were noted at posttreatment or follow-up.
Review
Anesthesiology
Andrew Moore, Emma Fisher, Christopher Eccleston
Summary: The randomised controlled trial, the foundation of clinical research, is often flawed in design, conduct, and reporting, leading to concerns about its trustworthiness. Common flaws include bias, small sample sizes, irrelevant outcomes, and inability to detect efficacy. Some trials have been fabricated, with the fields of anaesthesia and pain having a larger number. This review highlights the need for special measures to improve the quality and confidence of clinical evidence.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA
(2023)
Letter
Health Care Sciences & Services
Amanda C. de C. Williams, Leslie Hearn, R. Andrew Moore, Gavin Stewart, Emma Fisher, Christopher Eccleston, Neil E. O'Connell
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Maite Van Alboom, Fleur Baert, Sonia F. Bernardes, Piet Bracke, Liesbet Goubert
Summary: This study explores the specific manifestations of public stigma towards chronic pain (CP) and finds that the type of pain and patient gender can influence the cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses of the general population towards individuals with chronic pain. The findings suggest that individuals with primary CP may face higher levels of public stigma compared to those with secondary CP, and that patient gender only has a significant impact on stigmatizing manifestations under certain contextual circumstances.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Maryna Alves, Angelos-Miltiadis Krypotos, Geert Crombez, Johan W. S. Vlaeyen
Summary: This study developed and validated the Experimental Pain Pictures System (EPPS), a set of pain-related pictures depicting different types of pain. Participants rated all the pictures as negative, arousing, and painful.
Article
Clinical Neurology
Julie F. Vermeir, Melanie J. White, Daniel Johnson, Geert Crombez, Dimitri M. L. Van Ryckeghem
Summary: This research provides researchers with a dataset of pain-related and non-pain-related linguistic stimuli by investigating the associative strength between pain-related words and the pain construct, the pain-relatedness ratings of pain words, and the variability in the relatedness of pain words within pain word classifications. The findings highlight the importance of validating linguistic pain stimuli.
Letter
Anesthesiology
Neil Edward O'Connell, R. Andrew Moore, Gavin Stewart, Emma Fisher, Leslie Hearn, Christopher Eccleston, Amanda C. de C. Williams
Review
Anesthesiology
Christopher Eccleston, Emma Begley, Hollie Birkinshaw, Ernest Choy, Geert Crombez, Emma Fisher, Anna Gibby, Rachael Gooberman-Hill, Sharon Grieve, Amber Guest, Abbie Jordan, Amanda Lilywhite, Gary J. Macfarlane, Candida McCabe, John McBeth, Anthony E. Pickering, Tamar Pincus, Hannah M. Sallis, Samantha Stone, Danielle Van der Windt, Diego Vitali, Elaine Wainwright, Colin Wilkinson, Amanda C. de C. Williams, Anica Zeyen, Edmund Keogh
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Annina B. Schmid, Lucy Ridgway, Louise Hailey, Mohamed Tachrount, Fay Probert, Kathryn R. Martin, Whitney Scott, Geert Crombez, Christine Price, Claire Robinson, Soraya Koushesh, Sarim Ather, Brigitte Tampin, Marco Barbero, Daniel Nanz, Stuart Clare, Jeremy Fairbank, Georgios Baskozos
Summary: Sciatica is a common condition that is associated with higher levels of pain, disability, poorer quality of life, and increased use of health resources. The FORECAST study aims to explore mechanism-based subgroups in patients with sciatica and identify factors that predict pain persistence. This study will provide crucial information about the pathophysiological drivers of sciatica symptoms and may help in identifying prognostic factors of pain persistence.
Article
Neurosciences
Geert Crombez, Elke Veirman, Dimitri Van Ryckeghem, Whitney Scott, Annick De Paepe
Summary: This study identifies and addresses potential problems in investigating the effect of psychological factors on pain outcomes. It highlights the importance of high-quality data and considering causal assumptions. The study suggests the need for improvement and provides recommendations for future research.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Iris Maes, Lieze Mertens, Louise Poppe, Tomas Vetrovsky, Geert Crombez, Femke De Backere, Ruben Brondeel, Delfien Van Dyck
Summary: This study examined within-person associations between multiple determinants of the capability, opportunity, motivation, and behavior framework and physical activity (PA). The results showed that factors such as irritation, feeling down, intention, and self-efficacy were positively associated with subsequent PA, while relaxation, satisfaction, and fatigue were negatively associated.
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Theory & Methods
Stephanie Carlier, Maya Braun, Annick De Paepe, Geert Crombez, Femke De Backere, Filip De Turck
Summary: The global pandemic has highlighted the importance of regular physical activity for both mental and physical well-being. However, existing mHealth applications have not been successful in increasing physical activity. This paper proposes a theoretically-grounded approach that considers the individual's dynamic nature and emphasizes the need for a context-aware and personalized system. Stakeholder and end-user input is crucial in capturing expert knowledge, which is then incorporated into an ontology based on the Health Action Process (HAPA) model. The paper outlines the requirements for designing a mobile health Behavior Change System that focuses on increasing physical activity in adults and highlights the need for personalization at the user, action, coping planning, and motivational levels.
PERVASIVE COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR HEALTHCARE, PERVASIVE HEALTH 2021
(2022)
