A5074594766- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Diabetes and associated disorders
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
- Cytokine Signaling Pathways and Interactions
- Language Development and Disorders
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Hepatitis C virus research
Cardiff University
2020-2024
University College London
2018-2020
Between-group variability in socioeconomic status (SES) has been identified as a potentially important contributory factor studies reporting cognitive advantages bilinguals over monolinguals (the so called "bilingual advantage"). The present study addresses the potential importance of this alternative explanatory variable low and high SES bilingual monolingual performance on Simon task Tower London (TOL) task. Results indicated an overall response time advantage task, despite equivalent...
Background: Inflammation is increasingly implicated in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders ranging from depression through age- and infection-related cognitive decline to dementia. Arguably, the most important evidence supporting an aetiological role for inflammation these conditions humans has come studies patients receiving IFN-α therapeutically or longitudinal follow-up after naturalistic infections (e.g., hepatitis C). These experimental medicine-type approaches have identified...
The modern understanding of the term metacognition encompasses two levels processing: a lower level awareness or knowledge one’s own thoughts and higher regulation control our thinking. Metacognition, therefore, bears conceptual similarity with executive function: both are concerned top-down monitoring cognition in service ongoing goal-directed behaviour. Previous studies have shown possible function advantage multilingual speakers but also disadvantage metacognitive processing. To progress...
Interferon-alpha (IFN-α) is a key mediator of antiviral immune responses used to treat Hepatitis-C virus (HCV) infection. Though clinically effective, IFN-α frequently induces functionally impairing mood and motivation symptoms, particularly fatigue. Unlike impairment, which typically emerges after weeks treatment, fatigue tends emerge evolve rapidly, within hours the first injection. Despite being major source functional impairment during other immune-based therapies, biological mechanisms...