The successful integration of novel interactive virtual environments for everyday life applications may constitute an important indication towards similarly employing Virtual Reality (VR)-related technologies in primary care. This chapter presents the results of a usability study that makes use of an Android-based handheld device for investigating disabled users’ performance in using an intuiti...

Experimental measurements of backward accelerated protons are presented. The beam is produced when an ultrashort (5 fs) laser pulse, delivered by a kHz laser system, with a high temporal contrast (10(8)), interacts with a thick solid target. Under these conditions, proton cutoff energy dependence with laser parameters, such as pulse energy, polarization (from p to s), and pulse duration (from 5...

This study aims to examine the level of sexual violence, mood, and loneliness in professional athletes. A total 195 athletes, 85 men, 110 women, from different sports branches (Athletics, Basketball, Volleyball, Football, Fitness, Tennis, Boxing), with an average age 24.04 ± 4.96 a mean 2.27 0.993, participated research. “The Profile Mood States (POMS)” scale was used determine emotional states...

Treatment of obsessive-compulsive-bipolar comorbidity is relatively challenging. This case report presents the improvement of both obsessive-compulsive and mood symptoms in a female patient treated with risperidone plus valproate. Her obsessivecompulsive and manic symptoms, as assessed respectively by using The Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), ...

OBJECTIVE Mood disorders are associated with a high societal cost, mainly due to presenteeism. The objective of this study was to review the use of 10 instruments that rate presenteeism in mood disorders and to provide recommendations regarding the appropriateness of instruments in different study settings. METHODS A systematic review of the literature was conducted to identify scales used to...

PURPOSE Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is a neurophysiologic treatment for patients with refractory epilepsy. There is growing evidence of additional quality of life (QOL) benefits of VNS. We report the effects of VNS on seizure frequency and severity and how these changes are related to cognitive abilities, QOL, behaviour and mood in 15 children with medically refractory and for surgery not eli...

This paper considers psychological well-being in adulthood and old age, in light of the economic and social structure of the evolved human life history. Psychological well-being is the subject of significant scientific inquiry in large-scale modern societies (e.g., Easterlin, 2003; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008; Diener and Chan, 2011), and it is often associated with economic productivity, soci...

This research analysed the influence of Emotional Intelligence (EI) on emotional responses in laboratory context. Specifically, 1) how does EI affect previous mood states? 2) How does persons' emotional reactivity to different mood induction conditions depend on their EI? 3) How does EI help to a better mood recovery? For these purposes, 155 participants (123 women and 32 men) were measured for...

Aim: This study aims to characterize the stress, recovery, mood, and motivation together with training load of athletes cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) during a period resumption wheelchair rugby (WCR) training. Additionally, it compare psychological aspects competitive preseason determine correlations between load, recovery. Methods: We evaluated variables such as mood (Brazilian Mood Scale...