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Fall 2021
Despite the wide-spread availability of modern, combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), neurocognitive impairment persists among some people living with HIV (PWH). Among the multiple, interrelated HIV-associated, comorbid, and demographic factors related to neurocognitive problems in HIV today...
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Spring 2014
People with a repressive stress coping style have high levels of unacknowledged anxiety. Repressors are thought to show attentional vigilance-avoidance patterns towards threat information, followed by memory reductions. The direct relationships between attention and memory for threat in...
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Contributions of Prefrontal White Matter Integrity to Cognitive Performance in Healthy Aging
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Aging is well-known to produce changes in the brain at both the functional and anatomical level. Increased age is associated with general brain atrophy and a decline in cognitive abilities such as executive functioning, working memory, and processing speed. A key brain region responsible for...
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Fall 2013
Cognitive deficits affect approximately 50% of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and are associated with disease-related neurodegeneration. Prior MS-studies found decision making impairments uncorrelated with patients’ cognitive functions. Brain correlates of decision making in MS have not been...
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Delineating the Relationship between Self-Trust and Generalized Self-Efficacy: Implications for Mental Health
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Generalized self-efficacy (GSE) is understood as a stable and trait-like belief that one can manage challenging situations or tasks one is faced with. Based on Bandura’s social cognitive theory, GSE is thought to arise from repeated experiences of mastery and performance success over a broad...
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Spring 2010
Studies were conducted to investigate relationships between trait emotion regulation variables (including reappraisal and suppression) and selective attention to negative emotional information. Correlation analyses of data in experiment 1 showed that trait-suppression was related to early...
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Fall 2020
Introduction: The beneficial effects of chronic exercise on hippocampal volume and associated memory functions are well studied, especially in the context of aging and dementia. These effects are thought to be mediated by multiple exercise-induced physiological and molecular factors (e.g.,...