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Psychological trauma
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Background Socio-emotional difficulties often result from very preterm (VPT) birth. The amygdala's developmental trajectory, including its nuclei, has been recognized as a significant factor in observed difficulties. This study aims to assess the relations ...
Springernature2024How to Support Students to Cultivate Psychological Safety in their Teams
Francesco Mondada, Yousef Jalali
The importance of psychological safety in teams has been demonstrated in different settings. Team performance improves when team climate allows team members to be their authentic selves, to ask questions and raise concerns comfortably. However, it is less ...
EPFL2024Adolescent Stress-Induced Ventral Hippocampus Redox Dysregulation Underlies Behavioral Deficits and Excitatory/Inhibitory Imbalance Related to Schizophrenia
Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Dogukan Hazar Ülgen, Thamyris Silva
Background and hypothesis: Redox dysregulation has been proposed as a convergent point of childhood trauma and the emergence of psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia (SCZ). A critical region particularly vulnerable to environmental insults during ad ...
2024Empathetic Conversational Agents for Distress Support
Due to the increasing demands of today's fast-paced world, mental health concerns are on the rise, which necessitates innovative approaches to provide support to those in need. Open-domain conversational agents known as chatbots, offer a unique opportunit ...
EPFL2023High levels of childhood trauma associated with changes in hippocampal functional activity and connectivity in young adults during novelty salience
Childhood trauma (CT) has been linked to increased risk for psychosis. Moreover, CT has been linked to psychosis phenotypes such as impaired cognitive and sensory functions involved in the detection of novel sensory stimuli. Our objective was to investigat ...
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2023Glucocorticoid-based pharmacotherapies preventing PTSD
Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Silvia Monari
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a highly disabling psychiatric condition that may arise after exposure to acute and severe trauma. It is a highly prevalent mental disorder worldwide, and the current treatment options for these patients remain limit ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023Blunted Glucocorticoid Responsiveness to Stress Causes Behavioral and Biological Alterations That Lead to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Vulnerability
Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Jocelin Grosse, Olivia Zanoletti, Simone Astori, Sophie Elizabeth Walker, Silvia Monari
Background: Understanding why only a subset of trauma-exposed individuals develop posttraumatic stress disorder is critical for advancing clinical strategies. A few behavioral (deficits in fear extinction) and biological (blunted glucocorticoid levels, sma ...
2023Face your fears: attenuating remote fear memories by reconsolidation-updating
Johannes Gräff, Bianca Ambrogina Silva
Traumatic events generate some of the most enduring memories, yet little is known about how long-lasting fear memories can be attenuated. In this review, we collect the surprisingly sparse evidence on remote fear memory attenuation from both animal and hum ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON2023Emotional labor experienced in team-projects: A comparison of engineering and hospitality students
Roland John Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Team projects are an integral part of the student learning experience. However, emotions can significantly affect student performance during team projects. Students use different emotion regulation strategies, such as surface-acting (emotive dissonance) an ...
2023Recent Advances in Polymeric Drug Delivery Systems for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration
When a traumatic event causes complete denervation, muscle functional recovery is highly compromised. A possible solution to this issue is the implantation of a biodegradable polymeric tubular scaffold, providing a biomimetic environment to support the ner ...
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