background: illness representations (based on leventhal's model) are associated with chronic illness outcomes. it has been suggested that targeting these cognitive components improves illness outcomes. multiple sclerosis is a common disorder between neural and immune systems that creates physical and psychological consequences. there are few pre psychological trails on these patients. the aim o...

electroencephalogram (eeg) is one of the useful biological signals to distinguish different brain diseases and mental states. in recent years, detecting different emotional states from biological signals has been merged more attention by researchers and several feature extraction methods and classifiers are suggested to recognize emotions from eeg signals. in this research, we introduce an emot...

background : studies have emphasized on the frontal eeg  symmetry as a mediator of emotional states. this research was aimed to examine the overall and asymmetric activities of the brain lobes under the affective states. methods : a coupling eeg was recorded in an eye closed awakened condition from 40 right handed female students under the baseline and affective states. results : bilaterally de...

Introduction Automatic human emotion recognition is one of the most interesting topics in the field of affective computing. However, development of a reliable approach with a reasonable recognition rate is a challenging task. The main objective of the present study was to propose a robust method for discrimination of emotional responses thorough examination of heart rate variability (HRV). In t...

The relationship between emotional state and other variables influencing successful reintegration of ex-prisoners. This is a project supported by a grant from the Criminology Research Council. The views expressed are the responsibility of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Council.

objective: this study aimed to assess deficits of cognitive and emotional aspects of theory of mind in patients with bipolar disorder type 1 within a remission period. methods: in this case- control study, 30 bipolar patients and 30 normal individuals were selected through purposive sampling method for the purpose of the study. then, they were matched based on their educational background and a...

The problem of which cues, internal or external, permit a person to label and identify his own emotional state has been with us since the days that James (1890) first tendered his doctrine that "the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion" (p. 449). Since we are aware of a variety of feeling and em...

introduction automatic human emotion recognition is one of the most interesting topics in the field of affective computing. however, development of a reliable approach with a reasonable recognition rate is a challenging task. the main objective of the present study was to propose a robust method for discrimination of emotional responses thorough examination of heart rate variability (hrv). in t...