This study evaluates if verbally oriented scales are as effective as the visual instruments of self-figure drawing and video interpretation in detecting treatment responses after 6 months of dance/movement therapy in fibromyalgia patients. The self-figure drawing and video interpretation technique captured treatment effects that were not seen on verbal scales. In the self-figure drawings, signi...

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most common nonhereditary cause of mental retardation, with deficits in general intellectual functioning, learning, memory, attention, and problem-solving. Presented here is the first case in which measured neurocognitive abilities were determined before, during, and after hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a case of FAS involving a teenage male patient. Memory, re...

To clarify advantages of unilateral electrode placement as an optimisation technique for electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression, aims were to meta-analyse unilateral ECT effects on cognitive performance relative to: (1) bitemporal electrode placement, (2) electrical dosage, and (3) time interval between final treatment and cognitive reassessment. Relevant electronic databases were syste...

A prior study (Bruder, G.E., Stewart, J.W., Mercier, M.A., Agosti, V., Leite, P., Donovan, S., Quitkin, F.M., 1997. Outcome of cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: relation of hemispheric dominance for verbal processing. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106, 138-144.) found left hemisphere advantage for verbal dichotic listening was predictive of clinical response to cognitive behavioral ...

a b s t r a c t introduction:we investigated differential role of cortical and subcortical regions in verbal and non-verbal sound processing in ten patients who were native speakers of persian with unilateral cortical and/or unilateral and bilateral subcortical lesions and 40 normal speakers as control subjects. methods: the verbal tasks included monosyllabic, disyllabic dichotic and diotic tas...

Artikel ini membahas tentang analisis tahapan dalam belajar verbal menggunakan rujukan dari kajian literatur yang relevan, konsepnya ( Verbal Learning) merupakan kegiatan pembelajaran mendorong siswa untuk memberikan respon terhadap materi seperti sebuah kata dan tanggapan- tanggapan bersifat verbal, ruang lingkup terdiri prosedur terurai konteks- konteks pengembangan yaitu, Serial Learning, Pa...

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are life-long neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairment in reciprocal social interactions, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, restricted repetitive stereotyped patterns of behaviour, interests activities. Children with ASD normally shows the sensory struggles to process data. Short Sensory Profile (SSP) is an assessment tool which widely u...

We present a first, proof­of­concept experiment of the MAWii music therapy system, which uses Wiimotes as virtual instruments. This experiment involves four groups of children suffering from behavioral disorders and currently treated in a day hospital in Paris. Preliminary analysis shows that the system is robust, that patients were strongly motivated by it and that their behaviors and verbal e...

STUDY DESIGN A randomized prospective study. PURPOSE To assess postoperative analgesic requirements after Phyback therapy preemptively in patients undergoing lumbar stabilization. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Frequency Rhythmic Electrical Modulation System is the latest method of preemptive analgesia. METHODS Forty patients were divided into two groups. Patients who were to receive tramadol wer...