Browsing by Subject "stress"
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(2020-03-25)Department: NeuroscienceAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and interaction. Many individuals with ASD experience significant psychological and physiological stress during peer interactions. ...
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(2011-06-29)Department: PsychologyParents of children with cancer are at increased risk for clinically-elevated posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This dissertation presents the results of two studies of rates, ...
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(2021-03-08)Department: PsychologyStress and sleep problems are significantly associated in adolescents, and this relation is particularly strong in youth with a family history of depression. Few longitudinal studies, however, have evaluated the relation ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-04-05)An individual engages in coping when he or she uses cognitive and behavioral efforts to deal with the internal or external demands of a stressful situation to make it more congruent with his or her goals (Smith & Lazarus, ...
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(2007-05-30)Department: PsychologyMothers and their adolescent and young adult daughters at risk for breast cancer may experience stress as a result of being at risk for the disease. The current study examined psychological and biological stress responses ...
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(2004-07-30)Department: PsychologyThe purpose of this study was to examine the relations between peer stress and internalizing and externalizing symptoms across 4 years in adolescents whose risk for depression varied. The sample was comprised of 240 ...
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(2008-05-20)Department: PsychologyRecurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is the most common type of recurrent pediatric pain. Much evidence shows that this condition adversely affects many areas of a child’s functioning, including repeated school problems and ...
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(2020-06-18)Department: PsychologyPrevious research has shown that stress has a negative effect on executive control (Quinn & Joormann, 2015a, 2015b, 2020; Shields et al., 2016). The present study aimed to replicate the finding that a laboratory stressor ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: PsychologyThough associations between sociodemographic disadvantage, stress, and parenting in the general population are well established, the impact of these factors on stress and parenting in pediatric populations is largely ...
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(2013-08-07)Department: PsychologyThere are two main type of coping: accommodative coping and problem-focused coping. Accommodative coping occurs when a person changes their beliefs, values, and goals to become more congruent with a stressful situation. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)PSY-PC 4999 - Honors Seminar - Dr. Jessika Boles Millions of children are living with intellectual and developmental disabilities worldwide, yet little is known about this experience from the vantage point of neurotypical ...
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(2011-06-28)Department: PsychologyThis study examined cortisol reactivity and regulation to a psychosocial stress task in 102 young adults, ages 18 to 31 (mean age = 22.97, SD = 3.87), at varied risk for depression (56 remitted depressed, 46 never depressed). ...
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(2010-04-08)Department: PsychologyStress, negative cognitive style, and coping were studied as predictors of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents at risk for depression. This study examined 166 children and adolescents (ages 9 to 15) of depressed ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: Molecular Physiology and BiophysicsMetabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are important modulators of excitatory transmission throughout the central nervous system, and have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders. This work focuses ...
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(2014-09-10)Department: NeuroscienceDrug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by cycles of drug use, withdrawal, and relapse. Stress-induced relapse of drug use is a significant barrier to curing addiction. The bed nucleus of the stria ...
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(2017-04-10)Department: NeuroscienceNearly 30% of the global burden of nonfatal disease is due to affective disorders. Stress is a potent risk factor for affective disorders including major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. The neurobiological ...
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(2021-08-03)Department: PsychologyPrevious research has found links between delayed circadian timing, sleep disturbance, and psychopathology. However, the role of sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) remains unclear. ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Community Research and ActionMillions of individuals and families have been permanently resettled in host countries after having fled their homes in order to seek safety from war or persecution. These resettled refugees may experience extreme hardship ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: NeuroscienceSynaptic plasticity is proposed to be a molecular mechanism underlying multiple forms of learning. The modulation of synaptic plasticity, therefore, may have profound consequences over behavior and may mediate pathological ...