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Results of a 12-Month Randomized Controlled Trial Testing the Efficacy of the Diabetes Prevention Program Group Lifestyle Balance (DPP-GLB) for People Post Stroke (GLB-CVA)
CONCLUSIONS: Engagement in the GLB-CVA can result in weight loss and improved health for individuals who are overweight or obese following stroke. Future efforts should examine effectiveness in real-world settings and focus on knowledge translation efforts.PMID:37542523 | DOI:10.1093/abm/kaad045
Source: Annals of Behavioral Medicine - August 5, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Simon Driver Evan McShan Chad Swank Stephanie Calhoun Megan Douglas Alexandria Suhalka Monica Bennett Librada Callender Christa Ochoa Sridevi Mukkamala Kaye Kramer Source Type: research

Inter-lateral Referral of Sensation in Health and Disease Using a Mirror Illusion-A Scoping Review
CONCLUSIONS: RS challenges the understanding of touch perception and elicits a range of questions regarding neuro-processing. A modulatory approach using RS has not been described, requires investigation and, if promising, development as an intervention.PMID:34152397 | DOI:10.1093/arclin/acab039
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - June 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Annegret Hagenberg Dave G Lambert Shifa Jussab John Maltby Thompson G Robinson Source Type: research

Borderline Personality Disorder in Patients With Medical Illness: A Review of Assessment, Prevalence, and Treatment Options
Conclusions Health care could be substantially improved if all medical specialties would be familiar with BPD, its pathology, medical and psychiatric comorbidities, complications, and treatment. In mental health care, several empirically validated treatments that are applicable in a wide range of clinical settings are available.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - August 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS Source Type: research

Executive functioning as a predictor of stroke rehabilitation outcomes.
CONCLUSIONS: Executive functioning and depression are robust predictors of functional status following stroke rehabilitation. Although not consistently a significant predictor, pain might also be a useful addition to predictive models. PMID: 30676883 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The Clinical Neuropsychologist - January 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shea-Shumsky NB, Schoeneberger S, Grigsby J Tags: Clin Neuropsychol Source Type: research

Prolonged Psychosis Associated with Left Insular Stroke: Talking to God in the Walls
Anatomically, the insula is the part of the cerebral cortex lying within the lateral cerebral fissure; it includes the basal ganglia, external capsule, claustrum, and the capsula extrema. Most of its blood supply comes from the middle cerebral artery and its branches. Functionally, it plays multiple roles, including pain regulation and processing, motor and sensory perceptions, as well as speech, language, and auditory processing (Fig.).
Source: Psychosomatics - March 22, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nuria Thusius, Magdalena Romanowicz, Karolina Mlynek, Christopher Sola Tags: Case Report Source Type: research

“In this together”: Social identification predicts health outcomes (via self-efficacy) in a chronic disease self-management program
Conclusion The results are consistent with growing evidence of the value of a social identity-based approach in various health and clinical settings. The success of chronic disease self-management programs could be enhanced by attending to and augmenting group identification during and after the program.
Source: Social Science and Medicine - March 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Validation of an automated bilateral feet cold pressor test
In conclusion, the automated bilateral feet CPT is a valid and feasible stress test modification. Hemodynamic, subjective and endocrine stress responses are substantial, suggesting that this test version represents an advanced and suitable tool in human stress research.
Source: International Journal of Psychophysiology - November 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The Role of Chronic Psychosocial Stress in Explaining Racial Differences in Stress Reactivity and Pain Sensitivity
Conclusions: Accounting for psychosocial factors eliminated racial differences in stress reactivity but not racial differences in sensitivity to experimental pain tasks. Increased exposure to chronic stress may not explain AAs' increased pain sensitivity in laboratory settings.
Source: Psychosomatic Medicine - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Clarifying the associations between anxiety, depression and fatigue following stroke
Both psychological distress and fatigue are common post stroke. Although there is recognition that the phenomena are related, the nature of the relationship is unclear.Cross-sectional study of 98 independently functioning participants within 2 years of stroke. Significant relationships were observed between fatigue and general anxiety, health-related anxiety and stroke-specific anxiety (r range from .31 to .37). In the final regression model, depression, pain and stroke-specific anxiety were significant, accounting for 32 per cent of the variance in fatigue scores (p < .001). The findings provide insight into the import...
Source: Journal of Health Psychology - November 27, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Galligan, N. G., Hevey, D., Coen, R. F., Harbison, J. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Life Stress and Health: A Review of Conceptual Issues and Recent Findings
Life stress is a central construct in many models of human health and disease. The present article reviews research on stress and health, with a focus on (a) how life stress has been conceptualized and measured over time, (b) recent evidence linking stress and disease, and (c) mechanisms that might underlie these effects. Emerging from this body of work is evidence that stress is involved in the development, maintenance, or exacerbation of several mental and physical health conditions, including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, anxiety disorders, depression, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, human immunodeficiency virus/A...
Source: Teaching of Psychology - September 8, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Slavich, G. M. Tags: The Generalist ' s Corner Source Type: research

Cognitive and psychological functioning in fabry disease.
This study provides a cognitive profile of a cohort of individuals with Fabry disease and investigates the impact of pain, age, renal, cardiac, and cerebrovascular functioning on cognition and psychological functioning. Seventeen Fabry patients (12 males) with ages ranging 25 to 60 years (M = 46.6+11.8), and 15 age-matched healthy controls (M = 46.2+12.7) were administered a comprehensive neuropsychological battery. Fabry males demonstrated slower speed of information processing, reduced performance on measures of executive functions (verbal generation, reasoning, problem solving, perseveration), were more likely to show c...
Source: Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology - October 21, 2014 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sigmundsdottir L, Tchan MC, Knopman AA, Menzies GC, Batchelor J, Sillence DO Tags: Arch Clin Neuropsychol Source Type: research

An augmented reality home-training system based on the mirror training and imagery approach.
This article presents an augmented reality home-training system based on the mirror and imagery treatment approaches for hand training. A head-mounted display equipped with cameras captures one hand held in front of the body, mirrors this hand, and displays it in real time in a set of four different training tasks: (1) flexing fingers in a predefined sequence, (2) moving the hand into a posture fitting into a silhouette template, (3) driving a "Snake" video game with the index finger, and (4) grasping and moving a virtual ball. The system records task performance and transfers these data to a central server via the Interne...
Source: Behavior Research Methods - December 13, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Trojan J, Diers M, Fuchs X, Bach F, Bekrater-Bodmann R, Foell J, Kamping S, Rance M, Maaß H, Flor H Tags: Behav Res Methods Source Type: research

Autonomic effects of suggestive placebo interventions to increase or decrease blood pressure: A randomized controlled trial in healthy subjects
Abstract: Objective: Placebo effects on pain and other subjective parameters are well-established, but the evidence for placebo effects on autonomic functions is scarce. Our randomized-controlled trial aimed to investigate autonomic responses after a suggestive placebo intervention intended to increase or decrease blood pressure (BP).Methods: 92 healthy subjects inhaled a placebo spray with the prior suggestion that it contained an effective drug to either increase or decrease BP, or the information that a placebo was administered (controls). BP, heart rate, stroke volume, peripheral resistance, heart rate variability and ...
Source: Journal of Psychosomatic Research - April 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Frank Zimmermann-Viehoff, Karin Meissner, Julia Koch, Cora S. Weber, Steffen Richter, Hans-Christian Deter Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research

Simple quantitative analysis of Hoover's test in patients with psychogenic and organic limb pareses
Conclusion: Our study suggests that the quantitative analysis of the Hoover's test can be simple, reliable and cheap method of differential diagnosis between psychogenic and organic pareses, which could be of value in the routine neurological practice.
Source: Journal of Psychosomatic Research - November 26, 2012 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Galina M. Diukova, Natalya I. Ljachovetckaja, Marina A. Begljarova, Galina I. Gavrileyko Tags: Short Communication Source Type: research