Cues to overeat: psychological factors influencing overconsumption

Exploring Psychological Factors Influencing Deliberation

In contemporary societies there is a growing need to coordinate and legitimize different perspectives. Instead of a dialogical search for consensus polarizing communication still prevails. The legitimacy of formal political institutions and conventional forms of political participation is in decline; increasingly publicly expressed people’s need for a greater influence on social developments re...

Psychological factors influencing recovery from balance disorders.

This article reviews evidence for three mechanisms whereby psychological factors may aggravate dizziness and retard recovery from balance disorders. Firstly, a common behavioral response to dizziness is to avoid activities and environments that provoke symptoms, yet such avoidance deprives the individual of the exposure necessary to promote psychological and neurophysiological adaptation. Secon...

Psychological Factors Influencing Chronic Pain and the Impact of Litigation

Understanding chronic pain requires an understanding of psychological factors related to the pain experience. This paradigm is the standard foundation for pain medicine as well as physical medicine and rehabilitation diagnosis and treatment. Pain patients with spine disease frequently present with a multifaceted array of physical and psychological aspects including depression, anxiety, traumati...

Factors Influencing Psychological Empowerment of Nurse Aides in Nursing Homes

Factors influencing psychological well-being in patients with Parkinson’s disease

BACKGROUND Both motor and non-motor symptoms could contribute to significant deterioration of psychological well-being in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). However, its assessment has been only indirectly evaluated using tools based on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), such as the PDQ-39 scale. OBJECTIVES To evaluate psychological well-being in PD using a specific tool of assessme...