We describe a system for meta-analysis where a wiki stores numerical data in a simple comma-separated values format and a web service performs the numerical statistical computation. We initially apply the system on multiple meta-analyses of structural neuroimaging data results. The described system allows for mass meta-analysis, e.g., meta-analysis across multiple brain regions and multiple men...

A persistent challenge for the field of psychopathology has been how to best explain mental disorders and organize clinical symptoms into diagnoses. Meta-structural approaches have clarified fundamental problems and made substantial gains by using covariance structures to organize the nature of clinical symptom patterns. A remaining task is how to specify the connections between these patterns ...

OBJECTIVES To clarify the associations between psychosocial work stressors and mental ill health, a meta-analysis of psychosocial work stressors and common mental disorders was undertaken using longitudinal studies identified through a systematic literature review. METHODS The review used a standardized search strategy and strict inclusion and quality criteria in seven databases in 1994-2005....

BACKGROUND The literature on the prevalence of mental disorders affecting children and adolescents has expanded significantly over the last three decades around the world. Despite the field having matured significantly, there has been no meta-analysis to calculate a worldwide-pooled prevalence and to empirically assess the sources of heterogeneity of estimates. METHODS We conducted a systemat...

The Heartbeat Counting Task (HCT) was designed and is intended to measure the objective ability detect cardiac signals (also called interoceptive accuracy). Because accuracy thought play a key role in biological (e.g., body mass index) psychological trait anxiety) risk factors indicators of mental health, HCT scores should be associated with these outcomes. In order examine this question, we pe...

the aim of this study was to investigate the role of coach-oriented organization and team performance in the mental health staff general directorate of youth and sport of ardabil. descriptive and correlational methodology has been applied to the target and the field was done in this study population all staff general directorate of youth and sport was ardabil province in the number of them 85 p...

Background. In the last decades, several hospitals have adopted this concept of integrative medicine for the treatment of chronic and acute states of illnesses in in-patient treatment. The aim of this paper was to summarize the current evidence for a possible effectiveness of integrative on-patient treatment in patients' quality of life by means of a meta-analysis. Material and Methods. The dat...

a motor task performance and imagery show several parallel characteristics. in this study, the effect of a voluntary speed change in mental images of a complex difficult sequence of karate techniques on subsequent motor performance was assessed. 24 male karate volunteers (mean age: 24.58±5.27 years) who were well skilled at performing the sequence movements participated in the pretest. during t...