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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Disinhibition"”.
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Behavioural disinhibition in the syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration
… syndromes and are associated with behavioural disinhibition in other diseases. I propose that these neurotransmitter deficits contribute to behavioural change in FTLD syndromes. This thesis has two main aims. First, to develop a transdiagnostic approach to FTLD syndromes to facilitate a better …
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A Daily Diary Investigation of Behavioral Disinhibition and Alcohol-related Aggression
<p>Experimental demonstrations and theoretical developments have identified that the ability to control one’s own behavior (i.e., trait self-control, state self-regulation) may be particularly influential in the prediction of aggression and alcohol-related aggression. The research investigating …
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Understanding urgency in borderline personality disorder: disinhibition or impulsive emotion regulation?
<p>Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious and costly disorder characterized by emotional dysregulation and risky, impulsive behaviors. Urgency is a type of impulsivity that has been strongly associated with symptoms of BPD, and it remains unclear whether Urgency represents a failure of …
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Disinhibition in South African treatment-naïve adolescents with alcohol use disorders
… few studies have examined several domains of disinhibition simultaneously, and so little is known about relationships between the various correlates of disinhibition. This study aimed to (a) examine and characterize the disinhibitory complex in treatment-naïve adolescents with AUDs, (b) …
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Ovarian Hormone Modulation of Learning Strategy Preferences: A Role for Hippocampal Disinhibition
… that the balance between estrogen-induced disinhibition and progesterone-induced inhibition contribute to the estrous cycle-related strategy differences. In this work, hippocampal GABA was pharmacologically suppressed and enhanced to evaluate the contribution of inhibition to strategy …
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The Role of Maternal Psychological Distress on Neurobehavioural Disinhibition among Preschoolers Exposed Prenatally to Methamphetamine
… functioning) on child neurobehavioural disinhibition measures at 4.5 years. The sample in this longitudinal investigation included 83 children with prenatal MA exposure and 97 matched comparison children. Neurobehavioural disinhibition, involving lack of behavioural control and poor …
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Behavioral disinhibition and cortisol reactivity as a function of psychosocial stress and personality in adolescents
… explanations for the range of behavioral disinhibition across adolescents that include biological, personality, and environmental factors have not been fully elucidated. Additionally, these factors may affect changes in stress responses that occur during this period. To inform this area of …
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A Manipulation of Cognitive Restriction and Goal-Conflict: Mechanisms Underlying the Disinhibition Effect of Eating Behavior
… self-regulation failure (e.g., overeating, or disinhibition) due to inner competing goals of eating enjoyment and weight control. The current study examined these concepts in a sample of people classified as unrestrained eaters (N = 123), allowing for an investigation of restricted cognitive …
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Baseline cortical activation to food pictures associated with change in weight, hunger, cognitive restraint, and disinhibition following bariatric surgery
… in weight, hunger, cognitive restraint, and disinhibition. Methods: 18 participants viewed food and non-food pictures from a well-established food motivation paradigm during an fMRI scanning session prior to LAGB surgery. Weight and three factor eating questionnaire (TFEQ) scores on cognitive …
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Psychopathic traits in managers: Implications for employees' motivation, performance, and well-being at work
… triarchic model (i.e., boldness, meanness, and disinhibition), on employees’ motivation, performance, and well-being. Drawing on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), we proposed mechanisms by which these psychopathic traits in managers affect employees’ work-related outcomes, and sought to establish …
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Let's agree to agree : effects of self-awareness and social identity on online deliberation
… or understanding--in concert with trait online disinhibition tendencies in individuals. Finally, outcomes related to perceptions of one's conversation partner (civility, intelligence, rationality, hostility, and others), perceived compromise, feelings of political deliberation cynicism, and …
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Analysis of aberrant eating behaviors and body mass index on weight cycling in women
… between weight cycling and dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) while controlling for their simultaneous effects in women selected from a general population. Moreover, the interrelationships between the measures of dietary restraint, …
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Nicotine Addiction and Impulsive Behaviour: Disentangling the Relationship
… choice) and a loss of inhibitory control (disinhibition) (Madden et al.,1997). To date, our understanding of the complex association between impulsivity and drug addiction has been hindered by the cross sectional nature of the majority of research conducted. As a result of this it has been …
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The Role of Executive and Motivational Laboratory Tasks in the Assessment of Externalizing and Internalizing Problems in ADHD-C and Non-ADHD-C Youth
… regression. Higher CPT scores (i.e., executive disinhibition) were related to greater externalizing problems in total and unique effect analyses, while a relationship between lower CPT scores (i.e., executive inhibition) and greater internalizing problems was found only in unique effect …
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Age and IQ as Potential Moderators in the Relation Among Endopheonotypes and Expressed Behaviors in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
… ability, mental flexibility, planning, and disinhibition /inhibition) are related to specific expressed behaviors (i.e., acting out behaviors, social insight deficits, social contact problems, anxious/rigid behaviors, and stereotypical behaviors) that are commonly found in children with ASD. …
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Determinants of weight gain prevention in adult women
… a non-cognitive personality trait, revealed that disinhibition was a significant predictor of BW and body mass index (BMI). Significant associations between grit and cognitive eating restraint (CER; r=0.23, P<0.05), disinhibition (r=–0.47, P<0.01), hunger (r=–0.19, P=0.05), BW (r=–0.24, P<0.05) …
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Impact of neck muscle fatigue on upper limb sensorimotor integration
… motor output to upper limb muscles, cerebellar disinhibition, and performance accuracy in response to novel motor acquisition. Despite this, the impact of cervical extensor muscle (CEM) fatigue on cerebellar-motor cortex plasticity and SMI pathways in response to a novel motor acquisition task …
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Predicting Weight Loss in Post Surgical Laparoscopic Banding Patients
… Inventory® test (EI) - cognitive restraint, disinhibition, and hunger - to predict successful weight loss in post surgical laparoscopic banding patients at 6 and 9 months post surgery. Although the EI is commonly used in bariatric presurgical assessment, few studies have found consistent …
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Individual Differences in Eating Behaviours and Their Relationship with Motivation, Cognition and Weight Control
… However, no interactions between restraint and disinhibition or hedonic hunger was seen. Following this, the second experiment (Chapter 3) examined whether eating behaviours, such as disinhibition, restraint and hunger, change during a weight loss and weight maintenance period and whether they …
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