Publications by authors named "B J A Watt"
There has been a recent surge in schizotypy and metacognition research. Metacognition is an umbrella term for higher-order thought processes. Here, we focussed on maladaptive metacognitive beliefs, which are beliefs related to one's thought processes and often play an important role in the preponderance of psychological disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in March 2020 and required adherence to infection control measures and patient and staff safety, an integrated respiratory team (IRT) developed guideline-based templates to support the team in teleconsultation reviews of their patients. Patients had been diagnosed with sleep disordered breathing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, interstitial lung disease or had oxygen assessment needs.
Methods: Nine IRT members collaboratively developed content for the templates to assist in clinical reviews.
The study employed inductive-thematic analysis to identify dynamic cognitive-emotional processes occurring in proximity to deliberate firesetting among a sample of = 35 adjudicated juvenile firesetters. Six fire-specific themes were determined. Three of these themes are akin to an implicit theory (i.
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- Research on dreaming and alexithymia has shown mixed results, with a new study involving 577 participants exploring the connection between emotional intensity in dreams and aspects of alexithymia.
- The study found that difficulties in identifying feelings (DIF) were linked to greater emotionality in dreams, while externally oriented thinking (EOT) was associated with less emotionality.
- Stress was identified as a factor influencing the relationship between DIF and dream emotionality, highlighting the complexity of how alexithymia affects dreaming experiences.
Background And Purpose: Cerebral microbleeds (CMBs), markers of small vessel disease are frequent in ischemic stroke, yet the association with acute symptomatic seizures (ASS) has not been well characterized.
Methods: A retrospective cohort of hospitalized patients with anterior circulation ischemic stroke. The association of CMBs with acute symptomatic seizures was assessed using a logistic regression model and causal mediation analysis.