Author(s): Bothe B; Vaillancourt-Morel MP; Dion J; Paquette MM; Massé-Pfister M; Tóth-Király I; Bergeron S;
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, an increase in pornography use has been reported based on cross-sectional findings, raising concerns about associated adverse outcomes, such as problematic pornography use (PPU). The aims of the present study were to document potential changes in adol ...
Article GUID: 35059944
Author(s): Benzouak T; Gunpat S; Briner EL; Thake J; Kisely S; Rao S;
Objective Rates of anxiety have increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, partially attributable to the experience of COVID-19 related concerns. It remains pivotal to determine the implications of such concerns on the severity of anxiety as they may represent opportune targets for public health preventative or therapeutic efforts. ...
Article GUID: 34987892
Author(s): Thaler L; Booij L; Burnham N; Kenny S; Oliverio S; Israel M; Steiger H;
Although treatment dropout is common among patients with eating disorders, very few studies have examined predictors of non-completion in day treatment. We investigated various potential predictors of dropout from adult day treatment. Participants were 295 adult patients with a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa (restricting or binge-eating/purging subtype), B ...
Article GUID: 34971014
Author(s): Chauvin A; Phillips NA;
Objectives: Speech perception in noise is challenging, but evidence suggests that it may be facilitated by visual speech cues (e.g., lip movements) and supportive sentence context in native speakers. Comparatively few studies have investigated speech perception in noise in bilinguals, and little is known about the impact of visual speech cues and supporti ...
Article GUID: 34966162
Author(s): Dryburgh NSJ; Ponath E; Bukowski WM; Dirks MA;
This meta-analysis examined concurrent associations between aggression, withdrawal, assertion, and prosocial behavior and each of positive and negative friendship quality across studies with 22,657 children and adolescents (Mage = 11.71 years; 51.7% girls; 67.7% White). Studies were published between 1995 to 2021 and 32.4% were conducted outside of North ...
Article GUID: 34964484
Author(s): Wright L; Lopez LS; Camargo G; Bukowski WM;
The transition to kindergarten can be stressful as children adjust to novel separations from their caregivers and become accustomed to their peer group. A 9-month study of 96 children (Mage = 5.37 years, SD = 0.42) from Barranquilla, Colombia, assessed socioeconomic differences in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning across the kindergart ...
Article GUID: 34964493
Author(s): MacNeil S; Deschênes S; Knäuper B; Carrese-Chacra E; Dialahy IZ; Suh S; Durif F; Gouin JP;
bjective: This study sought to identify psychosocial predictors of trajectories of adherence to physical distancing alongside changes in public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A three-time point longitudinal survey during the first two waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods ...
Article GUID: 34951559
Author(s): Frohlich JR; Rapinda KK; Schaub MP; Wenger A; Baumgartner C; Johnson EA; O' Connor RM; Vincent N; Blankers M; Ebert DD; Hadjistavropoulos HD; Mackenzie CS; Wardell JD; Augsburger M; Goldberg JO; Keough MT;
Many young adults struggle with comorbid alcohol misuse and emotional problems (i.e., depression and anxiety). However, there is currently a paucity of evidence-based, integrated, accessible treatment options for individuals with these comorbidities. The main goal of this study was to examine eff ...
Article GUID: 34938848
Author(s): Hart EE; Gardner MPH; Schoenbaum G;
Of all frontocortical subregions, the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) has perhaps the most overlapping theories of function.1-3 Recording studies in rats, humans, and other primates have reported diverse neural responses that support many theories,4-12 yet nearly all these studies have in common tasks in which one event reliably predicts another. This lea ...
Article GUID: 34936884
Author(s): Bukowski WM; Dirks M; Persram R; Santo J; DeLay D; Lopez LS;
Data from 790 older school-age (Mage = 10.2 years, SD = 1.2 years) girls (N = 427) and boys from Barranquilla, Colombia (N = 449) and Montréal, Canada (N = 331) were used to replicate findings reported by Valdivia et al. (2005). This prior study revealed contextual variations in the association between two measures of social behavior, specifically aggress ...
Article GUID: 34928656
Author(s): Chertkow H; Rockwood K; Hogan DB; Phillips N; Montero-Odasso M; Amanullah S; Black S; Bocti C; Borrie M; Feldman H; Freedman M; Hsiung R; Kirk A; Masellis M; Nygaard H; Rajji T; Verret L;
Alzheimer's disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Currently, there are no disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for this condition. Aducanumab, an amyloid beta-directed monoclonal antibody that targets aggregated forms of amyloid-beta in the brains of people with Alzheimer's ...
Article GUID: 34912492
Author(s): Steiger H; Booij L; Crescenzi O; Oliverio S; Singer I; Thaler L; St-Hilaire A; Israel M;
Objective: Findings show virtual therapy (conducted using internet-based videoconferencing techniques) to be a viable alternative to in-person therapy for a variety of mental-health problems. COVID-19 social-distancing imperatives required us to substitute virtual interventions for in-person sessions routinely offered in our outpatient eating disorder (ED ...
Article GUID: 34904742
