Summary:When should inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric treatment be terminated?Objectives: As up to now no thorough empirical investigation of the length of stay during inpatient treatment exists, the criteria for the decision to terminate ...
Concepts of therapy for children with dyslexiaNumerous methods based on very different concepts are available to treat children with dyslexia. Basically, symptomatic and causal principles can be distinguished. Among the symptomatic methods are systematic ...
Evidence based psychotherapy of alcohol dependent patients: the
contribution of cognitive-behavioral interventionsObjective: During the last years several task forces
have evaluated psychotherapeutic procedures with
respect to their empirically proven ...
There have been many attempts to account theoretically for the effects of anxiety on cognitive performance. This article focuses on two theories based on insights from cognitive psychology. The more recent is the attentional control theory (Eysenck, ...
In a visual search task using photographs of real faces, a target emotional face was presented in an array of six neutral faces. Eye movements were monitored to assess attentional orienting and detection efficiency. ...
Effects of anxiety on the antisaccade task were assessed. Performance effectiveness on this task (indexed by error rate) reflects a conflict between volitional and reflexive responses resolved by inhibitory processes (Hutton, S. B., & Ettinger, U. (2006). ...
Thinking efficiency was examined in mental arithmetic as a function of the degree of interactivity afforded by the task. Participants carried out single-digit additions, involving either 7 or 11 numbers, as fast and as accurately as possible. They ...
This paper provides an overview of optimal design for functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies. We present the main types of fMRI designs, namely blocked and event-related designs, and common objectives of fMRI experiments, for example, ...