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Behavioral Sciences, Volume 7, Issue 3

September 2017 - 25 articles

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Articles (25)

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
12,905 Views
12 Pages

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Short-Term Outcome Study

  • Lázaro Gómez,
  • Belkis Vidal,
  • Carlos Maragoto,
  • Lilia Maria Morales,
  • Sheyla Berrillo,
  • Héctor Vera Cuesta,
  • Margarita Baez,
  • Marlén Denis,
  • Tairí Marín and
  • Yaumara Cabrera
  • + 6 authors

17 September 2017

Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) is a relatively new therapeutic approach that has shown beneficial effects in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). One question to be answered is how enduring its neuromodulatory effect could be. Twenty-four patients...

  • Review
  • Open Access
213 Citations
30,572 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2017

The rate of type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is dramatically increasing worldwide. Continuing diabetes mellitus (DM) care needs effective self-management education and support for both patients and family members. This study aimed to review and describ...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,318 Views
13 Pages

2 September 2017

I deal with perception and action (e.g., movements) using results from synergetics, a comprehensive mathematical theory of the self-organized formation (emergence) of spatial, temporal, or functional structures in complex systems. I illustrate basic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,142 Views
12 Pages

Does Growing up in Urban Compared to Rural Areas Shape Primary Emotional Traits?

  • Cornelia Sindermann,
  • Keith M. Kendrick,
  • Benjamin Becker,
  • Mei Li,
  • Shijia Li and
  • Christian Montag

29 August 2017

Growing up in urban areas represents a possible risk factor in the genesis of psychopathologies. The aim of the present study was to investigate the link between urbanicity variables and indicators for psychiatric disorders. We investigated a potenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,347 Views
16 Pages

22 August 2017

A continuous and increasing crisis that present-day China is facing is environmental degradation. The cultivation of citizens who have environmentally friendly behaviours has been deemed as a fundamental way to solve environmental crises. However, th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,461 Views
12 Pages

In Their Own Words: How Family Carers of People with Dementia Understand Resilience

  • Siobhan T. O’Dwyer,
  • Wendy Moyle,
  • Tara Taylor,
  • Jennifer Creese and
  • Melanie Zimmer-Gembeck

21 August 2017

There is a growing body of research on resilience in family carers of people with dementia, but carers’ voices are noticeably absent from it. The aim of this study was to explore carers’ definitions of resilience and their opinions on the factors ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,796 Views
7 Pages

19 August 2017

The neural underpinning of art creation can be gleaned following brain injury in professional artists. Any alteration to their artistic productivity, creativity, skills, talent, and genre can help understand the neural underpinning of art expression....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,543 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2017

Background: Research findings suggest that attitudes towards psychotherapy predict willingness to seek therapy. However, understanding how medical students think about using and referring their patients for psychotherapy is limited. Aims: The aims of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
19,040 Views
21 Pages

Four Bad Habits of Modern Psychologists

  • James Grice,
  • Paul Barrett,
  • Lisa Cota,
  • Crystal Felix,
  • Zachery Taylor,
  • Samantha Garner,
  • Eliwid Medellin and
  • Adam Vest

14 August 2017

Four data sets from studies included in the Reproducibility Project were re-analyzed to demonstrate a number of flawed research practices (i.e., “bad habits”) of modern psychology. Three of the four studies were successfully replicated, but re-analys...

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