Age-related health issues have been increasing with the rise of life expectancy all over world. One these problems is cognitive impairment, which causes elderly people to performing their daily activities. Detection impairment at an early stage would enable medical doctors deepen diagnosis and follow-up on patient status. Recent studies show that activities can be used assess status people. Add...

Stereotypies are invariant and repetitive behaviour patterns that seemingly have no function, which tend to develop in captive animals faced with insoluble problems and may be indicative of reduced welfare. A 4 year prospective study of the factors influencing the development of stereotypic and redirected behaviours (abnormal behaviour) in a population of 225 young Thoroughbred and part-Thoroug...

Previous research by Rachman and de Silva (1978, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 16, 233-248) and by Salkovskis and Harrison (1984, Behaviour Research and Therapy, 22, 549-552) has shown that abnormal and normal obsessions are similar in content. The present study examined whether the same is true for abnormal and normal rituals. A sample of normal subjects (N = 150) were asked about their idio...