background: emotional intelligence (eq) is positively associated with mental health and it can have a crucial role in mental disorder therapy by suitable coping mechanisms. the present study aimed to evaluate the relationship of eq with anxiety and depression among the women with breast cancer. subjects and methods: during 2013 and in a cross-sectional study, 98 breast cancer patients (14 to 21...

Four dual-task experiments examined visuospatial, articulatory, and central executive working memory involvement during the development and application of spatial mental models. In Experiments 1 and 2 participants read route and survey spatial descriptions while undertaking one of four secondary tasks targeting working memory components. Converging evidence from map drawing and statement verifi...

For the last two decades a number of publications have shown that the pattern of brain asymmetry in people with mental handicap, including autism, depression and schizophrenia, differs from that of normal subjects [1]. Results of the studies are in accordance with the Crow theory that supposed the causes of mental disorders to be disorders of the mechanisms responsible for the development of la...

CONTEXT Physical activity can improve cognitive and mental health, but the underlying mechanisms have not been established. OBJECTIVE To present a conceptual model explaining the mechanisms for the effect of physical activity on cognitive and mental health in young people and to conduct a systematic review of the evidence. DATA SOURCES Six electronic databases (PubMed, PsycINFO, SCOPUS, Ovi...

AIMS A range of peer worker roles are being introduced into mental health services internationally. There is some evidence that attests to the benefits of peer workers for the people they support but formal trial evidence in inconclusive, in part because the change model underpinning peer support-based interventions is underdeveloped. Complex intervention evaluation guidance suggests that under...

This article considers the implications for prevention science of recent advances in research on family poverty and children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. First, we describe definitions of poverty and the conceptual and empirical challenges to estimating the causal effects of poverty on children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Second, we offer a conceptual framework th...