Typically in the laboratory, cognitive and emotional processes are studied separately or as a stream of fleeting emotional stimuli embedded within a cognitive task. Yet in life, thoughts and actions often occur in more lasting emotional states of arousal. The current study examines the impact of emotions on actions using a novel behavioral paradigm and functional neuroimaging to assess cognitiv...

BACKGROUND Very preterm (VP) infants are at greater risk for cognitive difficulties that may persist during school-age, adolescence and adulthood. Behavioral assessments report either effortful control (part of executive functions) or emotional reactivity/regulation impairments. AIMS The aim of this study is to examine whether emotional recognition, reactivity, and regulation, as well as effo...

The persons who have suffered permanent paralysis of his members develop a dependency that limits his possibilities and his quality of life. Independence in his daily activities improves notably his autoesteem and liberates his family of an additional responsibility. The basic needs are the locomotion, activation of devices as light, television, doors remote control, or communications. The pres...

It was Daniel Goleman who first brought the term “emotional intelligence” to a wide audience with his 1995 book of that name, and it was Goleman who first applied the concept to business with his 1998 HBR article, reprinted here. In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that while the qualities traditionally associated with leadership—such as intelligence, toughness,...

Background Increasing life expectancy, coupled with the impact that the retirement of the baby boom cohorts will have on society, means that policies to reduce the risk of dependency in later life have become a priority in France and Britain, as elsewhere in Europe. As a consequence, the organisation, funding and delivery of personal and social care provisions are now key issues. However, exist...

Fluid flow in the core is assumed to consist of a slowly varying (on time scales > magnetic diffusion time) part and a smaller, rapidly varying part as in the theory of the hydromagnetic dynamo put forward by Braginsky (1965). On the basis of this theory, geomagnetic secular variation models for the last 150 years are used to determine a rapidly varying, axisymmetric, poloidal motion of the flu...

To the best knowledge of authors, none of existing literatures is available for the linear independency test of interval vectors. In this note, we present an effective way for checking the linear independency of interval vectors and its possible application to the robust control problem, for example in this note, for solve the robust controllability test and robust observability test of uncerta...

Inability to modulate attention away from emotional stimuli may be a key component of dysregulated emotion in bipolar disorder (BD). Previous studies of BD indicate abnormalities in neural circuitry underlying attentional control, yet few studies examined attentional control in the context of emotional distracters. We compared activity and connectivity in neural circuitry supporting attentional...

Anxiety is a painful feeling that depends on a current traumatic situation or an expected threat that its origin is unknown. State anxiety is a transitory emotional state and trait anxiety refers to individual readiness for anxiety that is relatively stable. Besides, cognitive therapists believe that schemas are central for developing and maintaining the chronic forms of trauma, such as persona...