Emotional disturbances are central to diverse psychopathologies. In this article, we argue that the functions of emotion are comparable for persons with and without psychopathology. However, impairment in one or more components of emotional processing disrupts the achievement of adaptive emotion functions. Adopting a theoretical conceptualisation of emotional processes that stresses activity in...

BACKGROUND Impaired social functioning is a well-established feature of depression. Evidence to date suggests that disrupted processing of emotional cues may constitute part of this impairment. Beyond processing of emotional cues, fluent social interactions require that people physically move in synchronized, contingent ways. Disruptions to physical movements are a diagnostic feature of depress...

for most people iterance to hospital is a disturbing experience and expects that nurses be sensitive to patient's physical, emotional and social need at admission. whereas interrupt of sleep due to physical, psychological and social status damage, knowing about effective mechanisms in retention and disturbance of sleep – wake cycles help nurses to make natural criteria for their patient&ap...

The authors examined the impact of emotional valence on reference disturbance in patients with schizophrenia and identified factors that moderate individual differences in this relationship. Thirty-nine patients with schizophrenia were given an interview that elicited speech samples in response to 10 neutral and 6 negatively valenced emotional questions. Speech samples were analyzed using the C...

Nine demographic variables were correlated with the degree of emotional disturbance in a college population as measured by the Health Opinion Survey (HOS) which was mailed to 2800 randomly selected univer­ sity students. The number of returned questionnaires totaled 1429, yielding a return fate of 53 percent. Sex, employment, and religion were significantly correlated with emotional disturbance...

IN 1896, when I was a first-year medical student, Professor Henry P. Bowditch, whose memory his former students delight to recall, invited me to make use of the then newly discovered Roentgen rays in a study of the activities of the alimentary canal. In December of that year we demonstrated to the members of the American Physiological Society the passage down the esophagus of a swallowed mass m...

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1997) requires identification of emotional disturbance by special education criteria. It also requires that emotional disturbance be distinguished from social maladjustment. In some cases, a thorough evaluation of the child’s character pathology can aid in this determination. While methods such as the Rorschach, BASC, and MMPI-A are useful in und...

In Commonwealth v. Rank, 494 S.W. 3d 476 (Ky. 2016), a defendant convicted of first-degree assault, and sentenced to 15 years, moved to vacate his sentence on the basis of ineffective assistance of counsel. He claimed that his counsel failed to inform him of a possible defense of extreme emotional disturbance (EED), which could have lessened his offense and shortened his sentence. The defendant...