Publications by authors named "Arielle A Scoglio"
Article Synopsis
- Technology-assisted clinical interventions in healthcare are growing, with an emphasis on mobile apps and online platforms evolving to include socially assistive robots (SARs) for mental health support.
- A systematic review identified 12 studies examining SARs, which highlighted their potential role particularly for elderly dementia patients, though the research mainly consists of usability pilot data with several methodological constraints.
- The current literature on SARs in mental health lacks generalizability and breadth, suggesting room for improvement and further exploration in future research and practice.
Background Excessive gambling is considered to be a part of the addiction spectrum. Stress-like emotional states are a key feature both of pathological gambling (PG) and of substance addiction. In substance addiction, stress symptomatology has been attributed in part to "anti-reward" allostatic neuroadaptations, while a potential involvement of anti-reward processes in the course of PG has not yet been investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLittle is known about the impact of natural disasters on marital and partner relationships. In this study, the authors aimed to fill this gap by investigating the changes in such relationships in a sample of 40 low-income, mostly African American women who survived Hurricane Katrina. Through in-depth interviews, participants described how the hurricane affected their intimate relationships.
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