Attending Emotionally to Fiction

Psychiatric disorders among emotionally distressed disaster victims attending primary mental health clinics in Ecuador.

Previous studies in developing countries have demonstrated post-disaster stress disorders in a substantial share of the people living through a natural calamity, but questions have remained as to the severity of these mental health problems. This article reports information derived from a 1987 study of Ecuadorian earthquake victims that shows many of the victims had diagnosable psychiatric diso...

Rapid Facial Reactions to Emotionally Relevant Stimuli

Preparing to Grasp Emotionally Laden Stimuli

BACKGROUND Contemporary theories of motor control propose that motor planning involves the prediction of the consequences of actions. These predictions include the associated costs as well as the rewarding nature of movements' outcomes. Within the estimation of these costs and rewards would lie the valence, that is, the pleasantness or unpleasantness of a given stimulus with which one is about ...

Comparing Resident Evaluation of Attending Surgeons to Attendings Self-Evaluation

Introduction. Studying the educational situation of surgery residents according to the perspective of residents and attending surgeons could lead to recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of their education and also to evaluating faculty performance. The purpose of this study was to determine the residents' viewpoints on evaluating their attending surgeons and compare the obtained results wit...

Attending to Contrast

stimulus that drives the neuron to fire and can be a meaningful way to characterize a neuron's responses. However, by studying the full distribution of stimuli preceding a spike rather than just the average of this distribution , the authors show that quickly varying dynamic stimuli have a more subtle effect on H1, so that there Attending to Contrast are essentially two relevant functions of th...