Recent research has provided evidence that mood can spread over social networks via social contagion, but that, in seeming contradiction to this, depression does not. Here, we investigate whether there is evidence for the individual components of mood (such as appetite, tiredness and sleep) spreading through US adolescent friendship networks while adjusting for confounding by modelling the tran...

We explored whether caffeine, and expectation of having consumed caffeine, affects attention, reward responsivity and mood using double-blinded methodology. 88 participants were randomly allocated to 'drink-type' (caffeinated/decaffeinated coffee) and 'expectancy' (told caffeinated/told decaffeinated coffee) manipulations. Both caffeine and expectation of having consumed caffeine improved atten...

PURPOSE Although previous research has associated the glycaemic load (GL) of a meal with cognitive functioning, typically the macro-nutrient composition of the meals has differed, raising a question as to whether the response was to GL or to the energy, nutrients or particular foods consumed. Therefore, the present study contrasted two breakfasts that offered identical levels of energy and macr...

OBJECTIVE To compare the clinical profile and pattern of catatonic symptoms of patients with schizophrenia and mood disorder. METHOD Records of 13,968 patients seen between 1983-1985 and 2003-2005 were reviewed for symptoms of catatonia by resident doctors in psychiatry. Cases in which the diagnosis were schizophrenia or mood disorder were then noted. Socio-demographic and clinical features w...

Abstract Objectives: The present study investigated the exposure effect of plus-size models on body dissatisfaction and mood, nature participants’ commenting behaviour towards images models. Method: was comprised 92 female university students who were exposed to Facebook photos Participants randomly allocated having photo paired with positive, negative, or neutral comments, participants asked l...

A considerable amount of studies have been established on conditional reasoning supporting mental model theory of propositional reasoning. Mental model theory proposed by Johnson- larid and Byrne is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something occurs in the real world. Conditional reasoning as a kind of reasoning is the way to speak about possibilities or probabilities. The a...

BACKGROUND Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN DBS) reduces Parkinson disease (PD) motor symptoms but has unexplained, variable effects on mood. OBJECTIVE The study tested the hypothesis that pre-existing mood and/or anxiety disorders or increased symptom severity negatively affects mood response to STN DBS. METHODS Thirty-eight PD participants with bilateral STN DBS and ...

universities have a magnificent role in the sustainable development of their country and international scientific production of their country. purpose of this paper is expansion of using balance scorecard in universities in order to improve performance of universities in learning and educating. the balanced scorecard (bsc) is an extensively adopted performance management framework in a lot of o...