AIM To describe mood and psychosensorial symptoms of hypoglycaemia in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes mellitus in two countries with different cultures, Turkey and the USA. METHODS We developed a 68-item questionnaire assessing physical, behavioural, mood and psychosensorial symptom frequency and ratings ['good', 'bad', or 'both' (sometimes good, sometimes bad)]. Adolescents with Type 1 diab...

Social mood, the aggregated mood of a society, emerges from complex system of individual moods and their influences on each other. The real social networks consist of millions or even billions nodes constantly interacting with each other. Can such a complex system be modeled by a graph consisting of a small number of agents with simple interactions between them? Profile of Mood States, known an...

Graphical Abstract I advise my students to stay curious and ask questions … I'm always in a good mood when get unexpected discoveries …” Find out more about Jingying Li her Introducing Profile.

Heart rate variability (HRV) is an established indication of cardiovascular regulation and is often not only considered in relation to health, but also to subjective aspects of perceived affect. However, as the various HRV parameters are not identical but interrelated, they vary in regard to different aspects of every-day moods, stress, and depression. Therefore it is suggested that those HRV p...

German verbal inflection is frequently wrong in standard statistical machine translation approaches. German verbs agree with subjects in person and number, and they bear information about mood and tense. For subject–verb agreement, we parse German MT output to identify subject–verb pairs and ensure that the verb agrees with the subject. We show that this approach improves subject-verb agreement...

This paper develops a behavioral model in food consumption choices that illuminates observed patterns of weight gain and dieting. Particularly it addresses the important role of willpower and mood stability in dieting behavior and hence consumption decisions. Built on previous research of the “dual-process” model (see Jonathan, 2005 and Loewenstein & O’Donoghue, 2005) in which a person’s behavi...

Approximately 60% of Armed Forces personnel regularly consume dietary supplements (DSs). We investigated the association of mood and health behaviors with multiple classes of DSs in military and Coast Guard personnel (N = 5536). Participants completed a survey of DS use and the Quick Mood Scale to assess mood domains of wakeful-drowsiness, relaxed-anxious, cheerful-depressed, friendly-aggressio...

objective(s):there is much evidence indicating that depression is influenced by the levels of neurotransmitters such as dopamine, gaba and adrenaline. the current study we designed to investigate the effect of exposure of pregnant rats to different colors on neurotransmitters level, as indicators of mood disorders in off springs. materials and methods:five groups of pregnant female wistar rats ...

Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) studies typically rely on arbitrary decision rules for identifying and excluding invalid responses from the data. In addition, most studies treat independent variables as separate from each other even if their combinations might have importance above the independent contribution of each. Our study aimed to conduct an exploratory latent profile analysis of E...