OBJECTIVE To model inconsistencies or distortions among three realities: patients' physical reality; clinicians' mental models of patients' conditions, laboratories, etc; representation of that reality in electronic health records (EHR). To serve as a potential tool for quality improvement of EHRs. METHODS Using observations, literature, information technology (IT) logs, vendor and US Food an...

PURPOSE An accumulation of disaster mental health research literature in the last few decades has contributed knowledge to direct disaster mental health interventions. However, no single set of principles can necessarily outline all anticipated mental health needs to be encountered in a particular disaster. METHODS To illustrate how different disaster scenarios may yield a divergence of menta...

A machine learning technique for handling scenarios of interaction between conflicting agents is suggested. Scenarios are represented by directed graphs with labeled vertices (for mental actions) and arcs (for temporal and causal relationships between these actions and their parameters). The relation between mental actions and their descriptions gives rise to a concept lattice. Classification o...

Purpose: An accumulation of disaster mental health research literature in the last few decades has contributed knowledge to direct disaster mental health interventions. However, no single set of principles can necessarily outline all anticipated mental health needs to be encountered in a particular disaster. Methods: To illustrate how different disaster scenarios may yield a divergence of menta...

People with schizophrenia demonstrate both impairment in mental time travel and reduced expectancies of performance on future tasks. We aimed to reconcile these findings within the Kahneman and Tversky (1982) simulation heuristic framework by testing a key prediction that impaired future simulation would be associated with reduced performance expectancies in people with schizophrenia spectrum d...

This article presents a case example of an individual with current major depression engaging in a positive mental imagery intervention, specifically a computerized cognitive training paradigm involving repeated practice in generating positive imagery in response to ambiguous scenarios. The patient's reported experience of the intervention suggests the potential of the positive imagery intervent...

We apply reasoning about mental attributes to process the scenarios of multiagent conflicts. Our approach is illustrated by the domain of complaint analysis: rather advanced methods are required to determine whether complaint is valid or not. We demonstrate that information on mental actions and emotional states of conflicting agents is frequently sufficient to justify a complaint.

We build the logical model for such mental disorder as autism. The formalism reproduces corrupted reasoning about knowledge, belief and intentions and is subject to experimental evaluation based on the set of multi-agent scenarios. The distinguishing features of autistic reasoning to are analyzed to construct the so~vare tools for diagnosis and traiIfing of the children with autism and accompan...

Prospective negative cognitions are suggested to play an important role in maintaining anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder (MDD). However, little is known about positive prospective mental imagery. This study investigated differences in prospective mental imagery among 27 patients with anxiety disorders, 24 patients with MDD, and 32 control participants. Measures of both deliberatel...