Augmented reality (AR) is a new technology in which various virtual elements are incorporated into the user's perception of the real world. The most significant aspect of AR is that the virtual elements add relevant and helpful information to the real scene. AR shares some important characteristics with virtual reality as applied in clinical psychology. However, AR offers additional features th...

BACKGROUND Toll- like receptors (TLRs) play an important role in the recognition of DAMPs and PAMPs and induction of inflammation. Previous studies demonstrated that depression and anxiety can influence the expression levels of immune related molecules. Our previous study revealed that mRNA levels of IRAKIRAK4, TRAF3 and IRF7 were significantly decreased in chronic HBV infected (CHB) patients w...

The present study tested the hypothesis that normative vs. non-normative performance goals would be associated with significantly divergent pathways in relation to both cognitive and emotional regulation. Participants were 16 college students a diagnosis of dyslexia. Students subjected an experimental induction while engaged reading pseudowords. Students’ EEG activation, EMG, BVP assessed durin...

OBJECTIVES The objective was to determine the effect of myofascial techniques on the modulation of physiologic and psychologic variables. DESIGN Forty-one (41) healthy male volunteers were randomly assigned to an experimental or control group. INTERVENTIONS The experimental group underwent 3 manual therapy modalities: suboccipital muscle technique, compression of fourth intracranial ventric...

Trait anxiety is associated with impairments in attentional control and processing efficiency (see Berggren & Derakshan, 2013, for a review). Working memory training using the adaptive dual n-back task has shown to improve attentional control in subclinical depression with transfer effects at the behavioral and neural level on a working memory task (Owens, Koster, & Derakshan, 2013). Here, we e...

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) produces symptoms similar to those typifying posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in humans. We sought to determine whether a rodent model of stress concurrent with mTBI produces characteristics of PTSD such as impaired contextual fear extinction, while also examining concurrent alterations to limbic monoamine activity in brain regions relevant to fear and anx...

BACKGROUND Threat-related attention biases have been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. As a result, attention bias modification (ABM) protocols have been employed as treatments for anxious adults. However, they have yet to emerge for children. A randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled trial was conducted to examine the efficacy of an ABM protocol designed to f...

PURPOSE The modified Yale Preoperative Anxiety Scale (mYPAS) was developed for evaluating the level of preoperative anxiety in children. The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean version of the mYPAS (K-mYPAS) and to establish its validity and reliability based on the Korean preoperative pediatric patients. METHODS K-mYPAS was made through stringent back-translation procedure. Total e...