CRANIO’s Olympian Effort

Case Study of Mental Skills Training for a Taekwondo Olympian

The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of systematic mental skills training (MST) for a taekwondo gold medallist. Based on MST of other sports, this programme was designed for a single subject who competed in the Olympics. The Korean test of performance strategies, Sport Attributional Style in Korean Athletes, and a few sessions of interviews were applied to investigate the effect...

Citius, Altius, Fortius: An Olympian Dream for Theranostics.

We have recently witnessed the heroic efforts of athletes from around the world striving to achieve the Olympic motto— Faster, Higher, Stronger. This could equally be the catch-cry of radiochemists who seek to make tracers with faster synthesis times, higher yields, and stronger binding affinity to the target of choice. Rapid synthesis is particularly important for short-lived radionuclides suc...

Effort Syndrome

Mental Effort

of the semantic features of the stimulus, a binary decision, and response selection. Name-Match RT is significantly longer than Physical-Match RT. Significant differences have also been found between subjects of high and low verbal ability, and RT in a modified version of the Posner paradigm has been found to significantly correlate (negatively) with intelligence. Inspection Time. Although rese...

Effort in Multitasking: Local and Global Assessment of Effort

When performing multiple tasks in succession, self-organization of task order might be superior compared to external-controlled task schedules, because self-organization allows optimizing processing modes and thus reduces switch costs, and it increases commitment to task goals. However, self-organization is an additional executive control process that is not required if task order is externally...