OBJECTIVE To evaluate psychopathological disturbances in patients with myotonic dystrophy (MD) and compare patients with MD to both patients with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) and healthy control subjects. METHODS A semistructured interview was used to determine DSM III-R criteria for major depressive episodes, dysthymic episodes, and generalised anxiety. The Montgomery and Asberg and ...

This paper presents a parallel real time framework for emotions and mental states extraction and recognition from video fragments of human movements. In the experimental setup human hands are tracked by evaluation of moving skin-colored objects. The tracking analysis demonstrates that acceleration and frequency characteristics of the traced objects are relevant for classification of the emotion...

This study aimed to examine the impact of parenting mediation strategies on family relationships and social media use among Saudi adolescents. To achieve the aim, a quantitative research design was used, involving questionnaires with data collected from 393 Saudi students aged 13-18 years. Pearson correlation and hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed. The key findings of this...

The paper explores F. M. Dostoevsky’s style from the contemporary semantic-stylistic research perspective. Based on canonical work of Bakhtin Dostoevsky and recent corpus-semantic explorations language, aims to show how microelements at different language levels can be regarded as stylemes build unique style, harmonized with main idea works. focuses stylistic effects intensifiers their unusual ...

Recent empirical studies have found that schizophrenics exhibit diminished observable facial expressivity in response to emotional stimuli (e.g., Berenbaum and Oltmanns 1992; Kring et al 1993; Kring and Neale 1996) yet report experiencing similar levels of emotion as their normal counterparts; however, it remains unclear whether schizophrenics are completely unexpressive, or if they exhibit mor...

The last few years have witnessed an increasing interest from computer scientists in the role emotions could play in the adaptability of artificially intelligent mechanisms. Evidence from neurologists suggests that affective states are crucial in the interaction between an individual and the environment. Furthermore, emotions often dominate our actions and some times override reasoning in the p...

The article analyzes the problem of emotional burnout in professional activity doctors and teachers, considers concept «emotional burnout», features teachers. feelings that lead to development syndrome have been identified. phases are identified symptom complexes these described, such as a change dynamics fatigue, decrease resistance diseases, deterioration contacts, dulling sensations. A group...

The paradox of musical expressiveness can be interpreted as a question about the nature of artistic communication in music. We express an emotion when we publically display it in our behavior. Behavioral expressiveness is thereby one side of a communicative exchange whose function is, at least in part, to help integrate and coordinate the activities of individuals in social contexts -it is a su...