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2012-12-14
Miller, Pamela, Humphreys, Erin, Gibson, Mary, Palmer, Jenna
This study examined whether the iPad and associated apps facilitates therapy with adults, and how it can be successfully integrated into speech-language pathology. Of the 28 participants in the study, 16 were clinicians and 12 were students in the MSc. Speech-Language Pathology program at the...
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Addressing exercise in therapy: Therapists’ personal exercise habits, attitudes, knowledge, and perceived barriers to addressing exercise with clients.
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This study was designed to investigate the factors that contribute to addressing exercise in psychotherapy. Self-identified psychotherapists (n=94) completed surveys relating to: the frequency and type of conversations they have with clients regarding exercise; the frequency and length of time in...
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Chronic Fatigue Mechanisms in Autoimmune Diseases: Lessons from Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Systemic Sclerosis
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Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an autoimmune disease affecting the body's connective tissues, resulting in progressive fibrosis and vasculopathy. In some cases, individuals with SSc may also develop primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), another autoimmune disease characterized by damage to their...
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Spring 2010
Client sexual advances may be a common occurrence in therapy, yet there is little information available with strategies for managing them. In hope of initiating a dialogue, five female therapists’ experiences were examined for possible insights. Informal semi-structured interviews provided data...
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Spring 2010
Investigations of morphological impairment in aphasia have revealed that patients may retain knowledge of a word’s morphological status even when they cannot access that word (Delazer & Semenza, 1998). In addition, aphasiological investigations have shown that more errors are produced with...
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Spring 2019
Motivation is essential to achieve success in therapy, and as such, a lack of motivation is a significant problem for clients as they work to meet their goals. In this dissertation, I describe two studies that sought to understand better the factors that affect client motivation in order to...
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Pairing Reading Treatment with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Adults with Aphasia
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Background. Damage to language areas of the brain often leads to a language disorder called aphasia, which impairs speech, writing, and understanding. Sixty-eight per cent of people with aphasia (PWA) also present with alexia, a reading impairment. There is an urgent need for efficacious...
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2009
Pretorius, V., Majumdar, S.R., McAlister, F.A., Ross, D.B., Norris, C.M., Kapoor, A.S., Mohamed, R.
Background. It has been suggested that the routine use of statins preoperatively would reduce the risk of postoperative infection. We conducted this study to explore whether preoperative statin use was associated with infection after cardiac surgery (recipients of which have a higher-than-average...
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Spring 2017
BCR-ABL fusion oncogene is the main driver mutation of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) that controls initiation, maintenance and progression to more aggressive stages of the disease. Current therapies with tyrosine kinase inhibitors in CML involve certain limitations, such as drug resistance and...
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2001
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine the acceptability and feasibility to conduct a randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of Reiki therapy on the anxiety levels of pregnant women about to experience their first amniocentesis. Participants (n = 30) were...