In this conceptual article, we explore possible relationships between the need for cognitive closure (NCC), uncertainty regulation, ideological rigidity, and the conditions of democratic deliberation. Kruglanski’s lay epistemic theory accounts...
While the role of the horse in riding hazards is well recognised, little attention has been paid to the role of specific theoretical psychological processes of humans in contributing to and mitigating risk. The injury, mortality or compensation claim...
Detailed attention and cognitive rigidity contribute to poorer social functioning and mental health. These cognitive functions can be measured using questionnaires or behavioral tasks but existing methods have limitations. The Detail and Flexibility...
The purpose and scientific novelty of this work is to analyze the changes and features of economic agents’ behavior when incorporating wage rigidity into a new Keynesian model under cognitive constraints of agents. The working hypothesis is the...
Cognitive remediation therapy (CRT) has recently been developed for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN). It focuses on decreasing rigid cognitions and behaviors, as well as increasing central coherence. Overall, CRT has been proven fe...
As automated technology advances rapidly, human employees’ fear of being replaced (i.e., technology-induced job insecurity) has become a widespread stress in today’s workplace. It is crucial for organizations to recognize this new technol...
30 September 2022
Distinguishing between flexible and rigid cognitive restraint (CR) may be useful for understanding the role of CR in dietary behavior and weight status. This study aimed to translate and adapt the flexible and rigid CR scales to the French context an...
Introduction: Body image distortion is a core symptom of anorexia nervosa (AN), embodying dissatisfaction and overvaluation of body appearance and weight. Body image distortion is an important factor in the maintenance of weight loss behaviours such...
Background/Objectives: Suicidal ideation and behavior in adolescence remain difficult to assess due to their multifactorial and fluctuating nature. Performance-based measures may provide additional information on psychological correlates associated w...
17 October 2023
Adults do not engage in enough physical activity. Investigating cognitive and physiological factors related to improving this behavior—and reducing health risks—remains a public health priority. Our objective was to assess whether cogniti...
The major proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are amyloid precursor protein (APP) and Tau. We demonstrate that APP1 (390–412) and Tau1 (19–34), linked together with either a flexible or a rigid peptide bridge, are able to...
Background/Objectives: Recent research has increasingly explored the cognitive processes underlying eating disorders (EDs), including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), other specified feeding or eating disorder...
The research analyzed the cognitive styles, sexist attitudes and social competencies that hinder gender equality in secondary education students. It identified sexist attitudes, cognitive styles and social skills that hinder change towards gender equ...
In Buddhist discourse, the path of healing often begins with awareness. Its crucial element, however, lies not in awareness alone, but in the direction toward which awareness is oriented and in the transformative process that follows from it. Ultimat...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a major health problem in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients. We described the clinical and sociodemographic factors of MDD among patients with PD at a national neurological referral center in Mexico. One hundr...
As our population ages, the medical challenges it faces become increasingly acute, with chronic kidney disease (CKD) becoming more prevalent among older adults. Frailty is alarmingly more common in CKD patients than in the general populace, putting t...
27 April 2024
Introduction: Although gifted children can express high cognitive skills, they can also show socioemotional difficulties. Drawing from Olson’s circumplex model, the present paper assessed the role of family functioning in internalizing and exte...
Cognitive flexibility—the ability to adapt cognitive strategies and behavioral responses in changing environments—is a key component of executive function, supporting rule updating and conflict resolution. Individuals with substance addic...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) may present different motor subtypes depending on the predominant symptoms (tremor or rigidity/bradykinesia). Slower disease progression and cognitive decline were observed in tremor-dominant (TD) patients c...
Mental flexibility (MF) has long been defined as cognitive flexibility. Specifically, it has been mainly studied within the executive functions domain. However, there has recently been increased attention towards its affective and physiological aspec...
Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. This disease is characterized by motor symptoms, such as bradykinesia, tremor, and rigidity. Although balance impairment is characteristic of advanced stages,...
The ability of AI to process vast datasets can enhance creativity, but its rigid knowledge base and lack of reflective thinking limit sustainable design. Generative Design Thinking (GDT) integrates human cognition and machine learning to enhance desi...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is increasingly recognized as a multisystem disorder. However, SOD1-associated ALS has traditionally been regarded as an exclusively motor phenotype. This systematic review challenges that paradigm by characterizin...
Process-based arts interventions—engaging participants in active embodied creation rather than analysis of completed works—produce more substantive cognitive, emotional, and behavioural change than product-based methods, yet present a sig...
The majority of neurodegenerative diseases are pathologically associated with protein misfolding and aggregation. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a type of dementia that slowly affects memory and cognitive function, and is characterized by the aggregatio...
Impairment in cognitive flexibility is a trait characteristic among individuals with diagnosed eating disorders. However, the extent to which these relationships exist in individuals with overweight or obesity remains unclear. Furthermore, there is a...
This essay presents two lines of argument to suggest that the extension into adulthood of specific phenotypic differentiation processes, typical of early development, is fundamental to the evolution of cognition. The first of these two lines of argum...
Background/Objectives: Daily sleep patterns are associated with cognitive health and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, it remains unclear how suboptimal irregular sleep manifests in AD from the preclinical stage to dementia. This study aimed t...
Based on both theoretical and practical experiences, the measures aimed at controlling emergency shutdowns of stopes have been highlighted. These stopes are connected with the emergency rigid settlements of powered complexes. In terms of the Western...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder that is typically characterized by a range of motor dysfunctions, and its impact extends beyond physical abnormalities into emotional well-being and cognitive symptoms. The loss of...
Background and Objectives: The interplay between motor tasks and cognition in Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) remains insufficiently characterised. We hypothesised that prefrontal-mediated cognitive functions could contribute to motor impairments in...
Background: Tremor-dominant Parkinson’s disease (TDPD) is the most common subtype of PD. Tremor is difficult to treat and less than 50% of patients respond to dopaminergic medications. Magnetic resonance guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) thala...
Hospital layouts play a critical role in supporting efficient care processes, which are continually evolving. While care processes adapt over time, the spatial needs of care professionals are expected to remain relatively stable. This study proposes...
Aiming to examine whether specific motor signs are associated with worse performance in specific cognitive domains among cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals, we performed a cross-sectional analysis of data from the baseline evaluations of older,...
Olfactory impairment was assessed in akinetic-rigid (PDAR) and tremor-predominant (PDT) subtypes of Parkinson’s disease (PD), classified based on motor symptoms. Seventeen PDAR, fifteen PDT, and twenty-four cognitively normal (CN) participants...
17 January 2023
The anti-COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States provided a significant contribution to the control of the virus spread. Despite the recommendations by public health institutions, vaccine skepticism and hesitancy contributed to low vaccine...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurological disorder that is manifested in the form of both motor and non-motor symptoms such as resting tremor, bradykinesia, muscular rigidity, depression, and cognitive impairment. PD is progressive in nature, ultima...
The introduction of AI coding assistants has significantly increased developer productivity by accelerating code generation at the developer level. However, this acceleration has shifted organizational bottlenecks downstream toward provisioning, secu...
To support the scientific policy making and planning for promoting the share rate of sustainable public transit in urban areas of large metropolises, this study analyzes the influences of psychological resistance to change factors on commuters’...
Recent advances in psychedelic research have renewed interest in their therapeutic potential for psychiatric disorders characterized by cognitive and behavioral rigidity. This review examines the rationale for using serotonergic psychedelics—pa...
Background: Conventional rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction often follows a rigid, phase-based model. This structure may overlook individual differences in healing, neuromuscular control, and psychological readiness, leadi...
Creativity is a central educational aim, yet learners in special education are too often left out of discussions of how to cultivate it. Music is frequently proposed to support them, and Baroque music especially, but the usual rationale, that such mu...
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face several challenges due to deficits in social function and communication along with restricted patterns of behaviors. Often, they also have difficult-to-manage and disruptive behaviors. At the moment,...
Multi-omnidirectional mobile robot formations offer significant advantages for applications in unstructured environments. However, under constraints such as limited field of view and high operator cognitive load, existing teleoperation frameworks str...
This study aims to investigate the syntactic complexity in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by conducting a comprehensive analysis that incorporates mean dependency distance (MDD), fine-grained grammatical metrics, and dependency netwo...
The Social-Ecological Systems framework serves as a valuable framework to explore and understand social and ecological interactions, and pathways in water governance. However, it lacks a robust understanding of change. We argue an analytical and meth...
Background: Against the backdrop of global population aging, understanding the mechanisms of age-related cognitive decline has become crucial for improving the health and quality of life in older adults. Methods: This study employed a multimodal appr...
28 October 2022
The effectiveness of mHealth interventions rely on whether the content successfully activate mechanisms necessary for behavior change. These mechanisms may be affected by end-users’ experience of the intervention content. The aim of this study...
Both the academic literature and global organizations have emphasized the need for responsible water consumption, as stated in Sustainable Development Goal 12. However, individuals’ water-saving behaviors in their current state are not enough. This s...
Background/Objectives: Cognitive impairment (CI) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a major burden and significantly affects patients’ quality of life. Previous studies found that older age at onset and presence of the akinetic–rigid (A...
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