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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jun Shigematsu, Ryota Kobayashi
Summary: This study examines the relationship between daily emotion regulation strategies and total conviction. The results show that total conviction in the experimental setting predicts behavior change, while the tendency to suppress emotions has a negative effect on total conviction.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Magdalena Kozubal, Anna Szuster, Adrianna Wielgopolan
Summary: Emotion regulation is important for physical and mental health. This study found that the intensity of emotions influenced the choice of regulation strategies, with higher intensity leading to more rumination and less reappraisal. Men were also found to use more strategies than women. Rating: 8/10.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Katrine Bostrom, Elin Borosund, Hilde Eide, Cecilie Varsi, oloef Birna Kristjansdottir, Karlein M. G. Schreurs, Lori B. Waxenberg, Karen E. Weiss, Eleshia J. Morrison, Hanne Stavenes Stole, Milada Cvancarova Smastuen, Audun Stubhaug, Lise Solberg Nes
Summary: This study evaluated the efficacy of a digital self-management intervention called EPIO for people living with chronic pain. The results showed significant reductions in symptoms of depression and self-regulatory fatigue, but no significant improvement in pain interference. Participants found EPIO to be useful, easy to use, and containing easily understandable exercises.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Rita Canaipa, Amira Khallouf, Ana Rita Magalhaes, Rafael Teodoro, Vanessa Pao-Mole, Mariana Agostinho, Fernando Pimentel-Santos, Liat Honigman, Roi Treister
Summary: This study aimed to assess the association between short-term memory and the within-subject variability of pain reports. The study found a significant correlation between short-term memory and within-subject variability in fibromyalgia patients, and a marginal correlation in healthy participants. These findings suggest that some of the variability in pain intensity reports in patients may be attributed to measurement error caused by poorer short-term memory rather than true fluctuations in perception.
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Psychology, Social
Phillip Brown, Wendy Powell, Neil Dansey, Miznah Al-Abbadey, Brett Stevens, Vaughan Powell
Summary: In chronic pain patients, using VR technology for pain management can increase pain tolerance, with presence being positively correlated with pain tolerance.
CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ravi Retnakaran, Jiajie Pu, Alexandra Emery, Stewart B. Harris, Sonja M. Reichert, Hertzel C. Gerstein, Natalia McInnes, Caroline K. Kramer, Bernard Zinman
Summary: Induction with short-term insulin therapy followed by maintenance with metformin can stabilize beta-cell function in early type 2 diabetes. The study found that initial reversibility of beta-cell dysfunction and preserved hepatic insulin sensitivity are associated with sustained stabilization of beta-cell function.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
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Psychology, Social
Ehda Gharavi Roudsari, S. M. Hossein Mousavi Nasab, Banafsheh Ghavidel-Parsa, Farzaneh Yazdi, Noshiravan Khezri Moghadam
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between personality facets and pain intensity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, finding that neuroticism was directly associated with pain intensity, while agreeableness had an opposite indirect effect on pain intensity through pain catastrophizing. Other personality facets did not show significant indirect associations with pain.
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
(2022)
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Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Gonzalo Napoles, Isel Grau, Agnieszka Jastrzebska, Yamisleydi Salgueiro
Summary: This paper introduces a recurrent neural system called long short-term cognitive networks (LSTCNs) for efficiently forecasting very long time series. By combining multiple short-term cognitive network blocks, introducing a new learning algorithm, and feature influence score, the model improves prediction accuracy and speeds up the process compared to state-of-the-art recurrent models.
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS
(2022)
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Economics
Rodica Loisel, Lionel Lemiale, Silvana Mima, Adrien Bidaud
Summary: This paper investigates the power system adequacy in relation to nuclear strategies by considering investment and dispatching together. The findings suggest that the future French power system requires greater flexibility in both nuclear and gas due to higher granularity of time-steps compared to prospective models. Additionally, scenarios with high shares of renewables depend on the arbitrage between nuclear and gas, especially during peak loads in winter and night periods. The study highlights the importance of coupling short-term operation with long-term investment to make informed decisions on renewables and nuclear, taking into account reactor constraints.
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Thomas M. Grist, Cheri L. Canon, Elliot K. Fishman, Maureen P. Kohi, Mahmud Mossa-Basha
Summary: The recent shortage of iohexol has disrupted the pharmaceutical supply chain critical to radiologic imaging and affected the global availability of iodinated contrast media (ICM). This shortage has created a national crisis in radiology departments, hampering their ability to provide contrast-enhanced examinations for patients. This report aims to provide short-term strategies for dealing with the shortage and discuss long-term issues and potential solutions to supply chain problems impacting radiology departments.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Io Salmons, Helena Muntane-Sanchez, Anna Gavarro
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between visual and verbal short-term memory and sentence comprehension in Catalan-speaking subjects with aphasia. The results showed that individuals with aphasia performed significantly lower on all tasks, with visual short-term memory being better preserved than verbal memory. There were no significant correlations found between memory and language comprehension, suggesting that memory deficits cannot explain comprehension deficits in aphasia.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Philipp Luke, Eduard Kraft, Shahnaz Christina Azad
Summary: The study found that there is no direct correlation between the intensity of acute experimental pain and the concentration or changes of soluble intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (sICAM-1) in serum. However, short-term changes in sICAM-1 were observed after pain induction, indicating that this marker is part of a demand-oriented homeostatically controlled system.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Ana Sofia Aranha, Alexandre Street, Cristiano Fernandes, Sergio Granville
Summary: This work proposes a dynamic model to represent sequential decision making in power systems with high renewable energy penetration. It considers uncertainties in both long-term and short-term levels as path-dependent stochastic processes. The model accounts for correlations between inflow forecasts, renewable generation, spot and contract prices through interconnected long- and short-term decision trees. A case study of the Brazilian power sector demonstrates the value of the model in defining optimal trading strategies for wind power generators.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ghazaleh Ghamkharinejad, Seyed Hossein Marashi, Forough Foolad, Mohammad Javan, Yaghoub Fathollahi
Summary: The study investigated the effects of the GABA facilitator valproic acid on morphine-induced behavioral tolerance and memory disruption, finding that valproic acid could ameliorate memory dysfunction caused by associative morphine tolerance. The expression of hippocampal GABAr alpha receptors was affected in morphine tolerant rats, with heavier impact observed in associative morphine tolerance rats. This research adds to our understanding of the behavioral and molecular aspects of morphine tolerance and memory effects.
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Anesthesiology
Lou Cathenaut, Remy Schlichter, Sylvain Hugel
Summary: Somatosensory information is efficiently processed in the spinal cord by frequency-tuned synapses, which display activity-dependent forms of short-term plasticity. These properties allow for powerful gain control in neuronal networks and contribute to the integration of nociceptive messages and the effectiveness of nonpharmacological analgesic procedures.
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Neurosciences
Cornelia Exner, Bettina K. Doering, Nico Conrad, Anna Kuenemund, Sarah Zwick, Kerstin Kuehl, Steffen Nestler, Winfried Rief
Summary: The study found that an integrated intervention of neuropsychological and cognitive behavioral therapy can significantly improve general psychopathology, negative affect, and quality of life in outpatients with ABI, with positive effects maintained during follow-up.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
(2022)
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Psychiatry
Laura M. -L. Dorn, Nele Struck, Florian Bitsch, Irina Falkenberg, Tilo Kircher, Winfried Rief, Stephanie Mehl
Summary: Patients with psychosis showed more pronounced deficits in Cognitive and Affective ToM compared to non-clinical controls, while there were no significant differences in Hyper-ToM errors. Deficits in Cognitive ToM were associated with general delusions, while problems in Affective ToM were linked to negative and disorganized symptoms. Furthermore, there was no association between Hyper-ToM errors and any symptoms when controlling for educational level.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychiatry
Anna Vogel, Hannah Comtesse, Agnes Nocon, Anette Kersting, Winfried Rief, Regina Steil, Rita Rosner
Summary: Present-centered therapy (PCT) was originally developed as a comparator for the nonspecific effects of psychotherapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder, but it has shown promising results in treating prolonged grief disorder (PGD) as well. Research demonstrates that PCT can significantly reduce PGD symptoms in adults, with treatment effects larger than those reported in traditional meta-analyses and good feasibility in outpatient settings.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Andre Pittig, Ingmar Heinig, Stephan Goerigk, Freya Thiel, Katrin Hummel, Lucie Scholl, Jurgen Deckert, Paul Pauli, Katharina Domschke, Ulrike Lueken, Thomas Fydrich, Lydia Fehm, Jens Plag, Andreas Strohle, Tilo Kircher, Benjamin Straube, Winfried Rief, Katja Koelkebeck, Volker Arolt, Udo Dannlowski, Jurgen Margraf, Christina Totzeck, Silvia Schneider, Peter Neudeck, Michelle G. Craske, Maike Hollandt, Jan Richter, Alfons Hamm, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen
Summary: A study compared two variants of prediction error-based exposure therapy in treating anxiety disorders, finding that temporally intensified exposure therapy showed better performance in treatment response time, treatment effectiveness, and improvement in quality of life compared to standard exposure therapy.
DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY
(2021)
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Clinical Neurology
Philipp Herzog, Bernhard Osen, Christian Stierle, Thomas Middendorf, Ulrich Voderholzer, Stefan Koch, Matthias Feldmann, Winfried Rief, Eva-Lotta Brakemeier
Summary: This study investigated the naturalistic effectiveness of routine inpatient treatment for patients with OCD and identified predictors of treatment outcome. Results indicate that, in addition to established predictors, social support and washing compulsions were identified as important positive predictors. Specific predictor profiles for changes in obsessions and compulsions were discussed.
EUROPEAN ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Julia W. Haas, Winfried Rief, Frauke Weiss, Bettina K. Doering, Maria Kleinstaeuber, Sina Ruwoldt, Lena Sarter, Ruth Thomas, Julia Rheker
Summary: A doctor's patient-centered communication style positively influences participants' intention to take medication, but does not directly affect their behavioral outcomes. Future studies should further explore the role of communication in populations taking medication long-term.
PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Anesthesiology
Beatrice Korwisi, Antonia Barke, Winfried Rief, Rolf-Detlef Treede, Maria Kleinstaeuber
Summary: For the first time, the upcoming ICD-11 will include a comprehensive classification of chronic pain, based on the biopsychosocial definition. This publication provides answers to frequently asked questions about the ICD-11 chronic pain classification, aiming to guide future users and facilitate its implementation.
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Psychology, Clinical
Julia Haneveld, Rita Rosner, Anna Vogel, Anette Kersting, Winfried Rief, Regina Steil, Hannah Comtesse
Summary: This study investigated the concordance between the diagnostic criteria for prolonged grief disorder (PGD) in DSM-5-TR and ICD-11. The results showed significant differences in diagnostic rates, mainly due to the time criterion and the presentation of core symptoms. With the potential increase in PGD prevalence rates during the COVID-19 pandemic, practitioners should be cautious about the diagnostic rule used and consider a stepped-care approach if there is uncertainty about the presence of full-blown PGD.
JOURNAL OF CONSULTING AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Marie Neubert, Philipp Suessenbach, Winfried Rief, Frank Euteneuer
Summary: Previous research on the relationship between social status and pain has produced inconsistent findings. This study aimed to explore the causal relationship between perceived social status and pain thresholds through experimental manipulation. Fifty-one female undergraduates were assigned to either a low or high-status condition. Participants' pain thresholds were measured before and after manipulating their perception of social status. The results showed that participants in the low-status condition reported increased pain thresholds after the manipulation, while those in the high-status condition reported decreased pain thresholds (beta = 0.22; 95% CI, 0.002 to 0.432; p < .05). These findings suggest that perceived social status may have a causal effect on pain thresholds.
PSYCHOLOGY HEALTH & MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Anesthesiology
Jenny Riecke, Winfried Rief, Gunnar Lemmer, Julia A. Glombiewski
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the long-term treatment effects of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and exposure therapy on chronic pain patients. The results showed that both psychological treatments were effective in maintaining treatment effects over several years, providing a sustainable long-term treatment option for chronic back pain patients.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PAIN
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Anna Seewald, Winfried Rief
Summary: This study investigates the impact of therapist's interpersonal behavior on alliance, motivation, outcome expectations (OE), and health behavior. The results suggest that the therapist's warmth and competence have a positive effect on alliance, motivation, and OE. However, there was no effect on health behavior.
PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Julia Haneveld, Rita Rosner, Anna Vogel, Svenja Makitalo, Julia Treml, Regina Steil, Winfried Rief, Hannah Comtesse
Summary: This study developed a therapeutic adherence and competence scale for grief-focused CBT (TACs-G) and conducted a psychometric evaluation. The results showed high inter-rater reliability and strong stability over time for the TACs-G, indicating its reliability as a tool for internal validity and psychotherapy process research.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Clinical
Katharina Senger, Annette Schroeder, Maria Kleinstaeuber, Julian A. Rubel, Winfried Rief, Jens Heider
Summary: This study aimed to identify predictors of therapy outcomes for patients with somatic symptom disorder and used the Personalized Advantage Index (PAI) to calculate individualized optimal treatments. Analysis revealed both treatment unspecific predictors and treatment specific moderators, which significantly improved outcomes for personalized treatments compared to randomized conditions.
PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Julia W. Haas, Winfried Rief, Bettina K. Doering
Summary: This study compared the general acceptance and outcome expectations of open-label placebos (OLPs) and deceptive placebos (DPs) among participants. The findings showed that participants had higher outcome expectations towards DPs and rated the application of DPs as more acceptable than OLPs. This result may be explained by the indirect effects of treatment expectations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Philipp Herzog, Ulrich Voderholzer, Thomas Gaertner, Bernhard Osen, Michael Svitak, Robert Doerr, Maria Rolvering-Dijkstra, Matthias Feldmann, Winfried Rief, Eva-Lotta Brakemeier
Summary: This study found that trauma-focused psychotherapy in routine clinical care has medium to large effects on PTSD inpatients, and a combined predictor model with sociodemographic, clinical, and psychometric variables can help predict treatment outcomes. Factors such as psychoticism, total number of diagnoses, and bronchial asthma consistently showed a stable negative predictive relationship to treatment outcome.
PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH
(2021)
