it could be firmly claimed that, now days, agonist substitution treatments, play an important role in substance dependence treatment. some effective treatment protocols have been designed and suggested regarding substitution treatments with significantly positive outcomes. one simple but very devisable point about such treatments is that treatment would only be effective in case patient remains...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of variability of attentional focus distance by self-talk on the learning of table tennis forehand in. after pretest, the participants performed 180 forehand strokes during 6 sessions with repeating the words “slightly rotation” in the internal focus group “slightly open” in the near external focus group, “over the net ” in the far ...

Alexithymia is associated with emotion processing deficits, particularly for negative emotional information. However, also common are a high prevalence of somatic symptoms and the perception of somatic sensations as distressing. Although little research has yet been conducted on memory in alexithymia, we hypothesized a paradoxical effect of alexithymia on memory. Specifically, recall of negativ...

Behavioural and neuroscientific research has provided evidence for a strong functional link between the neural motor system and lexical-semantic processing of action-related language. It remains unclear, however, whether the impact of motor actions is restricted to online language comprehension or whether sensorimotor codes are also important in the formation and consolidation of persisting mem...