Browsing Interventions by Title
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A Path Signature Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition
(2019-09)Automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) remains a difficult task within human-computer interaction, despite increasing interest in the research community. One key challenge is how to effectively integrate short-term ... -
Predicting motor, cognitive & functional impairment in Parkinson’s
(2019-07)Objective: We recently demonstrated that 998 features derived from a simple 7-minute smartphone test could distinguish between controls, people with Parkinson’s and people with idiopathic Rapid Eye Movement sleep behavior ... -
Premembering Experience: A Hierarchy of Time-Scales for Proactive Attention
(2019-10)Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and elucidating the various types of memories ... -
Prospective task knowledge improves working memory-guided behaviour
(2019-07)Working memory (WM) is the ability to keep information online for a forthcoming task. WM theories have tended to focus on how sensory information is maintained, and less on how WM content is used for guiding behaviour. ... -
The psychopathology of NMDAR-antibody encephalitis in adults: a systematic review and phenotypic analysis of individual patient data
(2019-03)Early immunotherapy administration improves outcomes in patients with N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR)-antibody encephalitis. As most patients with NMDAR-antibody encephalitis present to psychiatrists, the psychopathology ... -
Qualitative Analysis of Remote Consultations (QuARC): A study of technology-enhanced consultations in diabetes, cancer and heart failure
(2018-07)Background Remote video consulting is promoted by policymakers as a way of delivering healthcare efficiently to an ageing population with rising rates of chronic illness. As a radically new service model, it brings operational ... -
A randomised controlled test of emotional attributes of a virtual coach within a virtual reality (VR) mental health treatment
(2023-07)We set out to test whether positive non-verbal behaviours of a virtual coach can enhance people's engagement in automated virtual reality therapy. 120 individuals scoring highly for fear of heights participated. In a ... -
The relationship between short- and long-term memory is preserved across the age range
(2022-06)The aim of the current study was to examine cross-sectionally the changes in the relationship between short- and long-term memory with age. In two experiments, participants across the age-range were tested on contextual-spatial ... -
Rischio di mortalità con i farmaci antipsicotici nella popolazione psichiatrica anziana? Una revisione sistematica della letteratura
(2016)Scopo dello studio: In Italia, gli anziani raggiungono quasi un quarto della popolazione generale. In questo sottogruppo, gli antipsicotici sono ampiamente prescritti: nonostante siano autorizzati esclusivamente per ... -
Risk Factors for Mobility Decline in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Literature Review
(2021-08)Mobility is essential to maintaining independence for older adults. This systematic review aimed to summarize evidence about self-reported risk factors for self-reported mobility decline; and to provide an overview of ... -
A safe place to learn: a peer research qualitative investigation of automated virtual reality cognitive therapy (gameChange)
(2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
(2023-01)Background: Automated virtual reality (VR) therapy has the potential to substantially increase access to evidence-based psychological treatments. The results of a multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that ... -
Shielding working-memory representations from temporally predictable external interference
(2021-05)Protecting working-memory content from distracting external sensory inputs and intervening tasks is a ubiquitous demand in daily life. Here, we ask whether and how temporal expectations about external events can help ... -
A Simple Training Method to Practice Cleft Lip and Palate Markings for Trainee Surgeons
(2021-01)Cleft centers in the United Kingdom aim to provide training to their trainees through a variety of teaching methods. Given the nature of this subspecialty and limited hands on experience, trainee surgeons can complete their ... -
Sleep duration over 28 years, cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure: a prospective cohort study
(2020-01)Study Objectives To examine the association between sleep duration trajectories over 28 years and measures of cognition, gray matter volume, and white matter microstructure. We hypothesize that consistently meeting sleep ... -
A Smartphone App (BlueIce) for Young People Who Self-Harm: Open Phase 1 Pre-Post Trial
(2018-01-30)Background: Recent years have seen a significant increase in the availability of smartphone apps for mental health problems. Despite their proliferation, few apps have been specifically developed for young people, and ... -
Smartphones and Wearables as a Method for Understanding Symptom Mechanisms
(2020-01)While psychological treatments have been shown to be effective in treating psychiatric disorders, the mechanism of their therapeutic effect is less well understood. An improved mechanistic understanding of psychiatric ... -
‘Someone on my level’: A Meta‐Ethnographic Review of Therapeutic Relationships in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis
(2021-02)Objectives: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Psychosis (CBTp) demonstratesvariable and at times mild to moderate effect sizes; thus, its therapeutic processesare important to explore. Establishing a secure therapeutic ... -
A Structural Brain Network of Genetic Vulnerability to Psychiatric Illness
(2020-05)Psychiatry is undergoing a paradigm shift from the acceptance of distinct diagnoses to a representation of psychiatric illness that crosses diagnostic boundaries. How this transition is supported by a shared neurobiology ... -
Supporting health literacy and managing minor illnesses
(2022-12)Health visitors have an important role in education, signposting and giving advice to families in relation to managing minor illnesses