IntroductionSubjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and affective symptoms are highly prevalent in Parkinson's Disease (PD). In early PD, SCC prevalence its correlates, using recommended Movement Disorders Society (MDS) Level II Criteria to define the underlying impairment, has not been previously explored.MethodsWe recruited 121 participants with PD from two tertiary hospitals Singapore. The pre...

BACKGROUND Allelic variation in the gene encoding brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) has been associated with affective disorders, but generally not schizophrenia. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor variants may help clarify the status of schizoaffective disorder. AIMS To test the hypothesis that BDNF haplotypes are associated with psychiatric illness marked by a prominent affective comp...

BACKGROUND Suicide is a leading cause of death and has been strongly associated with affective disorders. The influence of affective disorder polarity on subsequent suicide attempts or completions and any differential effect of suicide risk factors by polarity were assessed in a prospective cohort. METHOD Participants with major affective disorders in the National Institute of Mental Health (...

The aim of the current research was to study cognitive and affective empathy in children aged 6-12 years old, and their associations with children's family environment and social adjustment. For this purpose, we developed the Spanish version of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES), self- and parent-report forms. Factorial analyses confirmed a two-component model of empathy in both self- and parent-rep...

Studies that use the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) and its age-appropriate versions as indices of affective decision-making during childhood and adolescence have demonstrated significant individual differences in scores. Our study investigated the association between general intellectual functioning and socioeconomic status (SES) and its effect on the development of affective decision-making in pres...

We investigated whether people are able to detect in a relatively automatic manner the dominant or submissive status of persons engaged in social interactions. We used a nonaffective variant of the affective Simon paradigm of De Houwer and Eelen (1998) in which participants responded by saying either "dominant" or "submissive" depending on the right or left spatial position of a target person w...

The study of teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base (PKB) to discover how teachers think and work is attracting increasing attention in ELT. Against this background, the present study aimed at probing the likely variations in EFL teachers’ pedagogical knowledge base as a function of their teaching license status. To this aim, six teachers (two standard-licensed, two alternatively-licensed, and tw...

Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) are risk factors for dementia. Mild behavioral impairment (MBI) is a neurobehavioral syndrome that refines NPS assessment to improve dementia prognostication by identifying later-life emergent and persistent specifically as the at-risk group. Affective dysregulation contributes an MBI domain characterized inability regulate emotions. Here, we investiga...

this study, in the first place, attempted to examine the relationship between english as foreign language (efl) teachers' affective constructs and their sense of responsibility. in the second place, the roles of teachers' gender, years of teaching experience, school setting, and the number of students in the classroom on teachers' affective constructs and sense of responsibility ...