Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) is of growing concern among farmers, ranchers, and researchers in the intermountain west due to its ability to alter rangeland vegetation communities and their associated fire regimes. Quickbird multi-spectral imagery (spatial resolution 2.4 mpp) was used to detect and model cheatgrass presence in southeastern Idaho. Training sites were created using 2003 field data...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer patients frequently experience psychological distress during the chemotherapy period. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the effect of relaxation with guided imagery on patients with breast cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS A two-group, pretest-posttest, quasi-experimental design with a randomized controlled trial was conducted. Sixty-five breast cancer patients fro...

Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) have been developed and implemented in many areas as a new communication channel between the human brain and external devices. Despite their rapid growth and broad popularity, the inaccurate performance and cost of user-training are yet the main issues that prevent their application out of the research and clinical environment. We previously introduced a BCI sys...

This review considers psychological interventions involving relaxation and guided imagery targeting immune functions. The review provides evidence of immune control accompanied by reports of enhanced mood and well-being. Three recent investigations of the author and his colleagues with self-hypnosis training incorporating imagery of the immune system are outlined. In two studies, hypnosis buffe...

BACKGROUND The study aims to assess the therapeutic benefits of motor imagery training in stroke patients with persistent motor weakness. There is evidence to suggest that mental rehearsal of movement can produce effects normally attributed to practising the actual movements. Imagining hand movements could stimulate the redistribution of brain activity, which accompanies recovery of hand functi...

Self-compassion has been found to promote well-being but research has yet to examine whether training in self-compassion improves self-regulation (Gilbert, 2005, 2009; Neff, 2003). the present study sought to examine the impact and moderators of a self-compassion intervention on the self-regulation of cigarette smoking. one hundred and twenty-six smokers seeking to quit were randomly assigned t...

INTRODUCTION Anxiety and depression are highly prevalent during adolescence and characterized by negative interpretation biases. Cognitive bias modification of interpretations (CBM-I) may reduce such biases and improve emotional functioning. However, as findings have been mixed and the traditional scenario training is experienced as relatively boring, a picture-based type of training might be m...

OBJECTIVE To study the effects of imagery-weight exercise on muscle strength. MATERIAL AND METHOD Preliminary study of a before and after designed experiment was conducted at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, from June to September 2004. Fifteen healthy sedentary volunteers: 5 males, 10 females, mean age 28.7 +/- 3.5 years were enrolled ...

Investigated were the effects of 'type of strategy training, intersession interval, and a posttraining reminder cue on paired associates learning for 57 educable mentally retarded elementary school children. Ss verb assigned to one of four training conditions (sentence mediation, visual imagery mediation, combined sentence and imagery training, or a control group receiving practice without trai...