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The Relation of Trauma to the Persistence of Functional Abdominal Pain from Childhood into Adolescence and Young Adulthood
(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)
Traumatic life experiences in childhood, particularly sexual and physical assault and abuse, have been consistently related to poor physical and mental health outcomes later in life. There is some evidence linking such ...
Child and Parental Factors Affecting Coping Strategies and Psychosocial Outcomes for Parents with Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-12)
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a rare, genetic neurodevelopmental disability characterized by hyperphagia, mood swings and intellectual disability. Families with a child with PWS often experience increased family tensions ...
Predictive Effects of Quality and Duration of Sleep on Cognition and CSF Biomarkers
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-12)
Current literature on the effects of sleep on cognition has shown conflicting results regarding the effects of long and short sleep duration. Using previously collected data from the Vanderbilt Memory & Aging Project, this ...
Effects of Text Message Reminders of Safety Behavior Reduction on Health Anxiety: A Randomized Controlled Trial
(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)
Health anxiety is a chronic issue associated with poor functioning that is especially important to study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cognitive-behavioral models of health anxiety posit that safety behaviors ...
Effects of Music on Gait Presented Emotion Perception
(Vanderbilt University, 2016)
Research on embodied emotions suggests that our ability to simulate bodily emotions enables us to better understand others’ emotions. Music has been shown to influence emotion processing, and music therapy is effective in ...
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Schizotypy and Social Trait Judgments
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-18)
Rapid and accurate judgments of social traits from faces are indispensable to successful interpersonal interactions. Anomalous trait judgment has been observed in the schizophrenia spectrum and may lead to delusion formation ...
The impact of children's gender and victimization history on self-cognition and perceived meanness
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04-04)
This study examined gender differences in self-cognitions and perceived meanness following exposure to audio recordings of peer victimization. A second goal of the study was to examine the interaction between victimization ...
Eating Disorders and Life Span Development
(Vanderbilt University, 2015-11-19)
Current research shows a relationship between age and eating disorder diagnoses but does not fully understand how symptoms manifest at different stages of Life Span Development (LSD). To identify the difference of eating ...
Social Brains, Social Bodies: Investigating the Role of Personality in Embodied Emotion
(Vanderbilt University, 2016-04-07)
Accurate emotion perception is essential for adaptive social functioning. Abnormal emotion perception and associated social impairments are core features of neuropsychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia and autism. ...
Tracking the Trajectories of Peer Victimization and Negative Self-Cognitions in Children: A Longitudinal Approach to Approximating Causality
(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)
This study investigates the effect of targeted peer victimization (TPV) on negative self-cognitions as a function of victimization type through a three-wave longitudinal study. Measures of TPV and cognitions were collected ...