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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Juan Garcia-Garcia, Maria Jose Gil-Fenoy, Maria Blasa Sanchez-Barrera, Leticia De la Fuente-Sanchez, Elena Ortega-Campos, Flor Zaldivar-Basurto, Encarna Carmona-Samper
Summary: The study found significant differences in ratings of unpleasant pictures between adolescents under custody and secondary school students, as well as in valence ratings of all three types of pictures and arousal ratings of unpleasant, neutral, and pleasant pictures between the custody group and all groups. Unpleasant pictures with violent and/or aggressive content were found to most differentiate the antisocial groups.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Neuroimaging
Ilse H. van de Groep, Marieke G. N. Bos, Lucres M. C. Jansen, Desana Kocevska, Anika Bexkens, Moran Cohn, Lieke Van Domburgh, Arne Popma, Eveline A. Crone
Summary: Early adulthood is a critical period for the development of antisocial behavior, and negative peer feedback can lead to higher retaliatory aggression. Individuals with different developmental trajectories of antisocial behavior show distinct patterns of neural activity when receiving social feedback. The prefrontal cortex plays an important role in inhibiting retaliatory responses in individuals who exhibit desistant behavior.
NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL
(2022)
Article
Management
Ran An, Cheng Li, Shaolong Ai, Yuan Wu, Xi Luo, Xin Li, Yanming Xu, Chengqi He
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of different shift work on the cognitive and executive performance of Chinese nurses in a clinical setting. The findings showed increased fatigue in nurses after day and evening shifts, and shift work affected reaction time following the evening shift. However, there was no significant difference in accuracy, suggesting a high level of attention among the nurses.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Rachel M. Shaffer, Jenna E. Forsyth, Greg Ferraro, Christine Till, Laura M. Carlson, Kirstin Hester, Amanda Haddock, Jenna Strawbridge, Charles C. Lanfear, Howard Hu, Ellen Kirrane
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the link between lead exposure and antisocial behavior. A systematic review of human epidemiological and experimental nonhuman mammalian studies will be conducted to investigate this association and provide information for the advancement of lead research and global policy interventions.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Megan Stubbs-Richardson, H. Colleen Sinclair, Ben Porter, Jessica Weiss Utley
Summary: Research has shown that the saturated model outperforms the Multimotive Model in addressing retaliatory responses to social rejection, with perceived groupness and self-harm behaviors being the main predictors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Substance Abuse
Lisa E. Hauger, Ingrid A. Havnes, Marie L. Jorstad, Astrid Bjornebekk
Summary: The study confirms a link between the use of anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) and aggression and violence in a weightlifting population, especially among AAS dependent users. Antisocial personality traits may be an important mediator in this association.
DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE
(2021)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Rodrigo Freire de Almeida, Mateus de Oliveira, Isadora Clivatti Furigo, Rodrigo Aquino, Neil David Clarke, Jason Tallis, Lucas Guimaraes-Ferreira
Summary: The aim of this study was to investigate the acute effects of caffeine ingestion on Stroop test performance before and after repeated small-sided games (SSG) in professional soccer players. The study found that a soccer-specific exercise protocol improved the Stroop test performance in professional soccer players, but acute caffeine ingestion had a detrimental effect.
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Clinical Neurology
Marina Diaz-Marsa, Andres Pemau, Alejandro De La Torre-Luque, Francisco Vaz-Leal, Luis Rojo-Moreno, Luis Beato-Fernandez, Montserrat Graell, Alvaro Carrasco-Diaz, Jose Luis Carrasco
Summary: This study investigates the impairment of executive functioning in patients with eating disorders and its association with clinical features. The findings suggest that executive function impairment is related to greater severity of eating disorder symptoms, which may lead to a negative treatment outcome.
PROGRESS IN NEURO-PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
John J. Donahue, Humama Khan
Summary: Psychopathic traits are consistently associated with proactive aggression, but the relationship with reactive aggression is unclear. This study explores the role of distress intolerance in understanding the link between psychopathic traits and aggression, finding that it may be a significant factor in this relationship.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Clinical Neurology
Rinki Singh, Bernard Giusiano, Francesca Bonini, Stanislas Lagarde, Alice Brockington, Agnes Trebuchon-Dafonseca, Fabrice Bartolomei, Aileen McGonigal
Summary: This study characterized the clinical expression and intracerebral EEG correlates of emotional expression during prefrontal epileptic seizures. The results showed that emotional behaviors, especially fear and threat response, are common in prefrontal seizures and are associated with specific cortical seizure localizations.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Olivia Choy, Adrian Raine
Summary: This study found that vitamin D can moderate the association between early social adversity and child antisocial behavior, especially for children with insufficient levels of vitamin D. The effects of social adversity on antisocial behavior outcomes were nullified at serum 25(OH)D concentrations above 27.16-30.69 ng/mL.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Javad Alaghband-rad, Behnoosh Dashti, Mehdi Tehranidoost, Ghazaleh Zargarinejad, Parvaneh FarhadBeigi
Summary: This study found that adults with ADHD have various deficits in executive functions, such as impairments in planning, response inhibition, and impulsivity, but visual-motor processing and sustained attention may improve with age.
JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Andrew Dane, Kiana R. Lapierre, Naomi C. Z. Andrews, Anthony A. Volk
Summary: This study investigated the evolutionarily relevant motives for aggression among early adolescents and examined their relations with psychosocial characteristics. Results showed that competitive functions were associated with aggression and victimization, while impression management and sadistic functions were associated with bullying and coercive resource control strategies. Reactive functions were associated with emotional symptoms, victimization, and aggression.
AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Simone Dobbelaar, Anna C. K. van Duijvenvoorde, Michelle Achterberg, Mara van der Meulen, Eveline A. Crone
Summary: Results from a study on developing social skills in middle childhood suggest that prosocial behavior and reactive aggression are independent constructs and their interaction may predict changes in externalizing problems over time. Children who score low on both prosocial behavior and reactive aggression are more likely to experience an increase in externalizing problems, while high scores on both types of behavior are associated with stable levels of externalizing problems. This highlights the importance of studying social competence across multiple dimensions to understand the complexities of social interactions.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Graca Esgalhado, Henrique Pereira, Patricia Silva
Summary: The aim of this study was to develop an emotional Stroop test for screening suicidal ideation in Portugal. Through multiple phases of experiments and a comparative study between clinical and non-clinical groups, it was found that this test can be an effective complementary tool for psychological assessment of suicidal ideation.
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marcus Rothkirch, Maximilian Wieser, Philipp Sterzer
Summary: The research suggests that behaviorally relevant faces do not have privileged access to awareness, as their relevance depends on the processing of face identity which is limited at pre-conscious stages.
Article
Psychiatry
Pichit Buspavanich, Mazda Adli, Hubertus Himmerich, Maximilian Berger, Marlene Busche, Peter Schlattmann, Sandra Bopp, Tom Bschor, Christoph Richter, Bruno Steinacher, Christian Stoppel, Claudia Hindinger, Saskia Meyer, Kai Hoffmann, Thomas Stamm, Alexander Gabriel, Angela Merkl, Franziska Goerke-Arndt, Stephan Koehler, Phillip Sterzer, Andreas Heinz, Joachim Behr, Hajar Fakhri, Florian Lang, Undine E. Lang, Roland Ricken
Summary: This study found that patients with faster onset of depressive episodes had significantly lower serum levels of certain cytokines compared to those with a slower onset. Additionally, patients with shorter durations of depressive episodes also had lower cytokine levels. The effect on cytokines was independent of the speed of onset of the depressive episode.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Bianca M. van Kemenade, Gregor Wilbertz, Annalena Muller, Philipp Sterzer
Summary: The theory of predictive processing suggests that our brains interpret incoming sensory input by generating predictions based on internal models of the world, with conscious perception corresponding to the most probable model. Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging have shown that early sensory cortices receive predictive feedback signals reflecting the contents of conscious perception.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Stephan Koehler, Veith Andreas Weilnhammer, Henrik Walter, Susanne Erk, Philipp Sterzer, Anne Guhn
Summary: The study found that negative emotions induced by autobiographical scripts did not significantly affect the neural processes underlying emotion regulation. Replication of previously reported neural correlates of emotion regulation, such as the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and right inferior parietal lobule, was observed.
NEUROPSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Juliane Handschack, Marcus Rothkirch, Philipp Sterzer, Guido Hesselmann
Summary: The debate on the scope and limits of unconscious visual processing under continuous flash suppression (CFS) has resulted in divergent findings. This study aimed to investigate the hypothesis of CFS attenuation by inattention using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA). The results did not support the hypothesis, but showed higher decoding accuracies for visible stimuli compared to invisible stimuli.
Article
Psychiatry
Anne Guhn, Lydia Merkel, Christine Heim, Heiko Klawitter, Paula Teich, Felix Betzler, Philipp Sterzer, Stephan Koehler
Summary: The Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) model suggests that preoperational functioning and empathy deficits are core features of persistent depressive disorders (PDD). This study found that empathy deficits in PDD patients were only apparent under stress and improved after CBASP treatment. The study supports the CBASP model and highlights the importance of stress-induced empathy impairments in PDD.
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Experimental
Chiara Caporuscio, Sascha Benjamin Fink, Philipp Sterzer, Joshua M. Martin
Summary: Visual illusions demonstrate the potential incongruence between perception and belief, challenging the Predictive Processing framework which aims to explain this phenomenon. Insights on how prior information is approximated in information processing streams shed light on the divergence between flexible and inflexible priors. This allows for conflicting percepts and beliefs to be accounted for while maintaining a hierarchical and unitary conception of cognition.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Lena Esther Ptasczynski, Isa Steinecker, Philipp Sterzer, Matthias Guggenmos
Summary: This study investigates the impact of confidence-based learning signals on instrumental conditioning and finds that subjective confidence and choice consistency increase in the absence of external feedback. By comparing different models, the researchers demonstrate that confidence-based models outperform standard models, highlighting the importance of confidence signals in value-based learning.
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Leonie J. T. Balter, Granville J. Matheson, Tina Sundelin, Philipp Sterzer, Predrag Petrovic, John Axelsson
Summary: This study aims to investigate the effects of sleep deprivation on perceptual stability and its relationship with psychosis proneness. The results suggest that sleep deprivation reduces perceptual stability, but there is no association between variability in psychosis traits and vulnerability to sleep deprivation.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Kiley Seymour, Philipp Sterzer, Natalie Soto
Summary: Research suggests that the tendency to attribute meaning to ambiguous stimuli is at the core of paranormal belief formation. This study aimed to examine the relationship between paranormal belief and perceptual sensitivity. The results showed that individuals with stronger beliefs in paranormal phenomena were less sensitive in discriminating between signal and noise. This finding suggests that paranormal believers perceive things differently, disentangling perceptual sensitivity from response bias.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Anna-Lena Eckert, Yael Gounitski, Matthias Guggenmos, Philipp Sterzer
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between psychosis proneness and choice history biases in perceptual decision-making, finding that psychosis proneness is associated with reduced choice history biases and no evidence for compensatory reliance on cue information. These results are important for understanding the connection between psychotic experiences and perceptual decision-making.
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Juliane Handschack, Marcus Rothkirch, Philipp Sterzer, Guido Hesselmann
Summary: Emerging from studies on unconscious visual processing, it is suggested that different blinding techniques suppress conscious perception at different levels. However, even with a single suppression method like continuous flash suppression (CFS), the extent and limits of unconscious visual processing remain diverse. In this study, the CFS-attenuation-by-inattention hypothesis was investigated using a numerical priming task. Results showed no priming effects in the invisible condition and an inverse effect of prime-target congruency in the visible condition, supporting the notion that CF-suppressed stimuli are limited to basic features without semantic processing.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Laurie-Anne Sapey-Triomphe, Lauren Pattyn, Veith Weilnhammer, Philipp Sterzer, Johan Wagemans
Summary: This study reveals that predictive mechanisms have an impact on behavior and perception at the neural level in both neurotypical and autistic adults, and are hierarchically encoded in the brain. These findings help to understand the neural specificities of atypical predictive processing in autism spectrum disorders.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Merve Fritsch, Veith Weilnhammer, Paul Thiele, Andreas Heinz, Philipp Sterzer
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the impact of noisy sensory information and environmental uncertainties on perceptual decisions. The results showed that under high sensory uncertainty, learned audiovisual associations had a greater influence on perceptual decisions, and this effect was even larger under high environmental uncertainty. Additionally, individual tendencies to change beliefs affected the degree to which observers relied on learned beliefs in making perceptual decisions. While the weighting of sensory information and learned beliefs was modulated by their respective uncertainties, belief learning was not influenced by sensory uncertainty. Understanding the interactive effects of sensory and environmental uncertainties in perception could provide insights into aberrant perceptual inference in psychopathology such as schizophrenia.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Heiner Stuke, Elisabeth Kress, Veith Andreas Weilnhammer, Philipp Sterzer, Katharina Schmack
Summary: Our study found that individuals prone to psychosis tend to rely heavily on high-level priors for the automatic detection of socially meaningful stimuli, which may constitute a processing alteration in psychosis.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
