A5101659178- Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Cognitive Functions and Memory
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Biochemical effects in animals
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
- Music Therapy and Health
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Bangor University
2006-2020
University of Maryland, College Park
1976
Background Insufficient attention has been paid to the influence of psychological and social factors on discrepancy‐based measures awareness. Objectives The present study tested a biopsychosocial model awareness in early‐stage dementia by gathering evidence regarding relative contributions neuropsychological, individual level scoring used index Method Awareness was assessed relation memory, activities daily living functioning 101 individuals with participating Memory Impairment Dementia...
Self-report quality of life (QoL) measures for people with dementia are widely used as outcome in trials care interventions. Depressed mood, relationship and neuropsychiatric symptoms predict scores on these measures, whereas cognitive impairment functional abilities typically do not. This study examines whether self-reports influenced by personality the person’s awareness his/her impairments. A strong negative association between QoL deficits would have implications validity self-report...
To determine whether people with dementia (PwD), and carers of PwD, show a processing bias to dementia-related words in an emotional Stroop task, if so, the presence such is related level explicit awareness condition.Seventy-nine early stage Alzheimer's disease (AD), vascular or mixed dementia, their carers, completed task. Time taken colour-name neutral was compared within between groups. Additionally, as comparison, ratings condition shown by PwD were made on basis detailed interview each...
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Measures of memory awareness based on evaluative judgement and performance monitoring are often regarded as equivalent, but the Levels Awareness Framework suggests they reflect different phenomena. Examination among groups with differing degrees impairment provides a test this proposition. <b><i>Method:</i></b> Ninety-nine people dementia (PwD), 30 mild cognitive (PwMCI), their relatives completed isomorphic measures...
Awareness in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) has been studied primarily from a quantitative perspective, which yielded inconclusive results. A qualitative approach may provide more in-depth profile of awareness symptoms and changes among people living with MCI. Few studies have considered MCI; therefore, the focus here will be on experience MCI, particularly psychological impact memory difficulties how these daily life. Twenty five participants clinical diagnosis MCI who had informed their...
The aim of this study was to explore whether errorless learning leads better outcomes than errorful in people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and examine accuracy error recognition relates any observed benefit over learning. Nineteen participants a clinical diagnosis MCI were recruited. A word-list task used assessed by free recall, cued recall tasks. Errorless significantly superior for both recall. benefits less marked ability. methods are likely prove more effective those...
Mindfulness-based programs have been delivered to people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and aggressive behaviour some success. The current study is part of a wider feasibility study, which aimed test the adaptation Soles Feet (SoF) meditation practice six-session, one-to-one intervention within UK National Health Service. It was designed for adults ID help reduce their behaviour. Eighteen stakeholders were interviewed from three groups: (1) who took in intervention, (2) supporters, (3)...
Approximately 10-20 % of adults with intellectual disabilities engage in challenging behaviours such as aggression, destructiveness, and self-injury, which are often accompanied by feelings anger. The inability to manage anger can reduce quality life. For example, aggression is a strong predictor out-of-area placements risk variable for abuse. Recent research suggests that mindfulness-based therapies (specifically, Singh's Soles the Feet meditation) help people angry emotions, resultant...
Among individuals with episodic memory impairments, trial-and-error learning is less successful than when errors are avoided. This "errorless advantage" has been replicated numerous times, but its neurocognitive mechanism uncertain, existing evidence pointing to both medial temporal lobe (MTL) and frontal (FL) involvement. To test the relative contribution of MTL FL functioning errorless advantage, 51 healthy older adults were pre-experimentally assigned one four groups based on their...
Abstract Objectives Mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) such as the ‘Soles of Feet’ (SoF) meditation have been shown to be effective for reducing aggressive behavior in people with intellectual disabilities (ID). Research on SoF has promising results USA but there is an absence evidence approach United Kingdom (UK). The aim this research was adapt UK and assess feasibility cost implementing intervention a healthcare setting (UK SoF). Methods consisted manualized protocol delivered over...
Abstract Forty‐eight college students, 24 of them dyslexic, were presented with four sentences increasing complexity. Participants asked to repeat each sentence and a record was kept the number repetitions required before 100% correct accuracy achieved. None control participants total more than eight over sentences, whereas among dyslexics needed ranged from one 25. Dyslexic unpredictable in their performance level difficulty next inter‐individual variability far greater dyslexic group...
ABSTRACT People who have been assessed as suffering from borderline personality disorder are notoriously difficult to treat or help either within individual psychoanalysis psychotherapy a hospital day centre. The treatment milieu is most commonly that of psychiatric hospital. purpose this paper explore some the therapeutic challenges in working with client group, and then look at what has being achieved Belle Ridley Day Hospital, run on psychodynamic lines which based Waterlow Unit North London.