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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Affective neuroscience"”.
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The relationship between impulsivity, affect and a history of psychological adversity: a cognitive-affective neuroscience approach
There is increasing evidence that trauma exposure is associated with impulsive behaviour and difficulties regulating affect. The findings of recent studies implicate the disruption of neurobiological mechanisms, particularly those involving the neurotransmitter serotonin, in both impulsivity and …
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Social dominance in relation to other putative basic emotions in humans
… significant body of research within the general neurosciences that has begun to investigate a behavioural state in animals and humans, which appears to suggest the existence of a ‘social dominance instinct’. One such finding is that across mammalian species, groups of cohabiting animals reliably …
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Overactive conflict-monitoring and separation-distress : cognitive and affective components of obsessive-compulsive disorder ?
… could be considered the correlate of OCD in the affective sphere. Two questionnaires (the Meta-Cognitions Questionnaire and the Padua Inventory) were used to position a non-clinical, college sample of 1119 participants in terms of their tendency towards obsessive-compulsiveness. The top 21 and …
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How many Cs in NICU?
… the potential of contemporary social, cognitive, affective neuroscience for providing causal explanations for interventions such as transformational practice development (tPD) as well as providing pointers to additional strategies for creating more positive workplaces for clinicians and families.
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Psychological and Neural Processing of Social Rejection and Inclusion in Major Depressive Disorder
… resolve current conflicts and gaps in the social affective neuroscience literature regarding social functioning in depression. Chapter 1 consisted of a general introduction to the current evidence-base and theoretical frameworks surrounding social processing more generally, and in depression more …
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Building bridges: Introducing concepts from neuroscience and attachment theory to person-centred practitioners
… that of the Person-Centred approach and that of Affective Neuroscience and Attachment Theory. The project tackles the challenge of interfacing different knowledge areas that potentially reflect different epistemologies and practice-based pursuits. It is argued that this is an important issue that …
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Separation-distress as an affective mechanism of OCD
… The aim was to characterize more accurately the affective nature of the disorder. Separation-distress and separation trauma were examined in samples of people with high scores on measures of obsessionality and low mood, and in patients with clinical OCD and depression; as well as in control …
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Human subjective homologues of established basic emotion correlations in lower mammals: a neuro-psychoanalytic study
… phase followed by a 'despair' phase. The affective neuroscience paradigm of Jaak Panksepp identifies two basic emotion systems as being centrally involved in this normal separation response, namely, PANIC/GRIEF and SEEKING, and it conceptualises the despair phase of the cascade as the …
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Towards real-time tracking of persons in distress phase situations using emotional physiological signals
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. 2019.