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Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors (2019)
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The conversion rate of 1st time donors to their 2nd and 3rd donation is low creating a significant problem to transfusion services. We hypothesise that feelings of warm-glow associated with donating blood, contribute to the differentiation between 1... Read More about Altruistic and Warm-Glow Motivations: Differentiating First Time From Repeat Donors.

A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Young People and Gambling-Related Harm (2019)
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Gambling is a worldwide issue that requires continued, extensive investigation. Most people have gambled at some point in their lives, and many do so without incurring problems. However, a number of individuals do experience gambling-related harm, an... Read More about A Behaviour Sequence Analysis of Young People and Gambling-Related Harm.

Increasing uptake of National Health Service Health Checks in primary care: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial of enhanced invitation letters in Northamptonshire, England (2019)
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Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world (2019)
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© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd In this article, we propose a new framework for investigating how accurately and by what process people read others' minds—a process that requires perceivers to make a retrodictive inference. In this context, we discuss... Read More about Interpreting signals in other people's behavior to sense things about them and to infer things about their world.

Number of subjects required in common study designs for functional GABA magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human brain at 3 Tesla (2019)
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Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a research tool for measuring the concentration of metabolites such as γ‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate in the brain. MEGA‐PRESS has been the preferred pulse sequence for GABA measurements due to low p... Read More about Number of subjects required in common study designs for functional GABA magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human brain at 3 Tesla.

Can Cartoons Which Depict Autistic Characters Improve Attitudes Towards Autistic Peers? (2019)
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This study aimed to assess the efficacy of two cartoons which depict autistic characters in improving attitudes towards autistic peers in two separate studies. Forty-six children participated in study 1 (4–7 years), and 47 children participated in st... Read More about Can Cartoons Which Depict Autistic Characters Improve Attitudes Towards Autistic Peers?.

Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2019)
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© 2019 The Authors Objectives: We investigated whether baseline scores for a self-report trait linked to central mechanisms predict 1 year pain outcomes in the Knee Pain in the Community cohort. METHOD: 1471 participants reported knee pain at baselin... Read More about Baseline self-report ‘central mechanisms’ trait predicts persistent knee pain in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.

Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample (2019)
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The current study explored whether people who camouflage autistic traits are more likely to experience thwarted belongingness and suicidality, as predicted by the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide (IPTS). 160 undergraduate students (86.9%... Read More about Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample.

Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App (2019)
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Previous research has shown that a specific interactive app, designed to support the development of early mathematical skills and delivered on hand-held tablets, is effective at raising mathematical attainment in young children in low-and high-income... Read More about Secondary Benefits to Attentional Processing Through Intervention with an Interactive Maths App.

Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae (2019)
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Background RA flares are common and disabling. They are described in terms of worsening inflammation but pain and inflammation are often discordant. To inform treatment decisions, we investigated whether inflammatory and pain flares are discrete ent... Read More about Disease Activity Flares and Pain Flares in an early rheumatoid arthritis inception cohort; characteristics, antecedents and sequelae.

Data showing regional differences in rat brain monoaminergic function (2019)
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Chemical neurotransmitters (such as dopamine) modulate cognitive function via ascending projections to various cortical and sub-cortical brain regions. This report describes and links to a relatively large dataset (up to N=112) compiled from control... Read More about Data showing regional differences in rat brain monoaminergic function.

Cultivating virtue in postgraduates: An empirical study of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative (2019)
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Although virtue ethics has emerged as an influential ethical theory within the academy, universities have not generally taken up the practical task of virtue cultivation. Some academics even resist the effort altogether. In response, this article pre... Read More about Cultivating virtue in postgraduates: An empirical study of the Oxford Global Leadership Initiative.

A Systematic and Methodological Review of Attentional Biases in Eating Disorders: Food, Body, and Perfectionism (2019)
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Objective: The current systematic and methodological review aimed to critically review existing literature utilizing implicit processing, or automatic approach- and/or avoidance-related attentional biases between eating disorder (ED) and nonclinical... Read More about A Systematic and Methodological Review of Attentional Biases in Eating Disorders: Food, Body, and Perfectionism.

Alterations in functional brain networks in depressed patients with a suicide attempt history (2019)
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Suicide is a major challenge in public health and is strongly associated with major depressive disorder (MDD). Despite recent neuroimaging developments, the neural correlates of suicide behavior in patients with MDD remain unclear. Independent compon... Read More about Alterations in functional brain networks in depressed patients with a suicide attempt history.

Effects of childhood trauma, daily stress, and emotions on daily cortisol levels in individuals vulnerable to suicide. (2019)
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Objectives: Suicide is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, has been identified as one potential risk factor. Evidence has indicated that childhood trauma i... Read More about Effects of childhood trauma, daily stress, and emotions on daily cortisol levels in individuals vulnerable to suicide..

The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans (2019)
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Using a human Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) task, Alarcón and Bonardi showed that the selective elevation of instrumental responding produced by excitatory transfer cues was reduced when these cues were presented with a conditioned inhibit... Read More about The effect of conditioned inhibitors and preexposed cues on the outcome-specific Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) effect in humans.

Intraperitoneal 8-OH-DPAT reduces competition from contextual but not discrete conditioning cues (2019)
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The effects of the serotonergic (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) agonist 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT; 0.2 and 0.4 mg/kg i.p.) were examined in trace conditioning (Experiment 1) and overshadowing (Experiment 2) procedures. Both experi... Read More about Intraperitoneal 8-OH-DPAT reduces competition from contextual but not discrete conditioning cues.

EMD386088 (5 mg/kg) has no effect on latent inhibition shown to both light and noise stimuli (2019)
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Activation of 5-HT6 receptors stimulates attentional switching and 5-HT6 receptor antagonists are putative drugs for psychosis. Latent inhibition (LI) provides a pre-clinical model of attentional switching and ‘antipsychotic-like’ action and is known... Read More about EMD386088 (5 mg/kg) has no effect on latent inhibition shown to both light and noise stimuli.

Advancing functional connectivity research from association to causation (2019)
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Cognition and behavior emerge from brain network interactions, such that investigating causal interactions should be central to the study of brain function. Approaches that characterize statistical associations among neural time series—functional con... Read More about Advancing functional connectivity research from association to causation.

Imaging functional recovery following ischemic stroke: clinical and preclinical fMRI studies (2019)
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Disability and effectiveness of physical therapy are highly variable following ischemic stroke due to different brain regions being affected. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of patients in the months and years following stroke ha... Read More about Imaging functional recovery following ischemic stroke: clinical and preclinical fMRI studies.