Various components of body image were measured to assess body image disturbances in patients with obesity. To overcome limitations of previous studies, a photo distortion technique and a biological motion distortion device were included to assess static and dynamic aspects of body image. Questionnaires assessed cognitive-affective aspects, bodily attitudes, and eating behavior. Patients with ob...

BACKGROUND Virtual Reality is an interactive three-dimensional computer generated environment. Providing a complex and multi-modal environment, VR can be particularly useful for the study of complex cognitive functions and brain disorders. Here we used a VR world to measure the distortion in reality perception in schizophrenia patients. METHODS 43 schizophrenia patients and 29 healthy control...

BACKGROUND Treatments for childhood social anxiety have traditionally employed social skills training, based on the assumption that effected children have social skills deficits. Recent conceptualisations of social anxiety in adults have questioned this assumption, and have suggested that socially anxious individuals merely believe that they have skill deficits. A recent study using children pr...

Patients suffering from bipolar disorder often report negative thoughts and a bias towards negative environmental stimuli. Previous studies show that this mood-congruent attentional bias could mediated by dysfunctions in anterior limbic regions. The Error-Related Negativity (ERN), which originates in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), has been used to research this negativity bias in depresse...

The rate distortion manifold is considered as a carrier for elements of the theory of information proposed by C. E. Shannon combined with the semantic precepts of F. Dretske’s theory of communication. This type of information space was suggested by R. Wallace as a possible geometric–topological descriptive model for incorporating a dynamic information based treatment of the Global Workspace the...

BACKGROUND The existence of deficits in several social cognitive domains has been established in schizophrenia, and those impairments are known to be a significant determinant of functional outcome. Both symptoms and neurocognition have been linked to social cognitive deficits, but the nature and the relative strength of these relationships have not been established. METHODS A meta-analysis o...

Communication traffic is vulnerable to timevariant wireless channel conditions such as: fading, time dispersive, or frequency dispersive distortion which can render nonadaptive communication processing ineffective. This paper surveys published wireless channel multistate hidden Markov models (HMM) revealing mature applications of HMMs and several approaches for modeling wireless channel paramet...

Patients with DM who have negative perceptions and are overly worried about their disease poor glycaemic control. If the thought of someone is distorted, they will likely feelings, then behavior be influenced. Aims: This study aimed to determine cognitive behavioral distortions patients diabetes mellitus (DM) relationship between distortion behavior. Settings Design: utilized a qualitative desi...

ethan kohlberg, the jewish orientalist and specialist on shi‘a, sees the distortion in holy scriptures, including quran, inevitable. from his point of view, some quranic verses confirm this point. his second proof is the history of the quran and the time when its whole text was written down. in his viewpoint,   hadiths which prove that the quran had been written down in abu bakr’s time ore orie...