Glucose improves object-location binding in visual-spatial working memory.

Rationale: There is evidence that glucose temporarily enhances cognition and that processes dependent on the hippocampus may be particularly sensitive. As the hippocampus plays a key role in binding processes, we examined the influence of glucose on memory for object-location bindings.

Objective: This study aims to study how glucose modifies performance on an object-location memory task, a task that draws heavily on hippocampal function.

Glucose, relational memory, and the hippocampus.

Rationale: Many studies suggest that glucose can temporarily enhance hippocampal-dependent memories. As the hippocampus plays a key role in associative learning, we examined the influence of glucose on verbal paired associate memory.

Objective: This study examines how glucose modifies performance on a relational memory task by examining its influence on learning, subsequent forgetting and relearning.

An exploration of the existential experiences of patients following curative treatment for cancer: reflections from a U.K. Sample.

The existential experiences associated with cancer diagnosis and treatment are well researched, but the posttreatment phase is relatively underexplored. Using semistructured interviews and theory-led thematic analysis this qualitative study investigated the existential experiences of eight cancer survivors who had successfully completed curative treatment. Being in remission had led to deep existential reflections (i.

Glucose and memory: the influence of drink, expectancy, and beliefs.

Rationale: An increasing number of studies suggest that glucose can enhance aspects of memory and the central methodology is the use of the glucose-placebo design. One critical issue therefore is separating the pharmacological effects of glucose from the expectancies created by consuming a drink that might contain glucose.

Objective: A modified balanced placebo design examined the role that expectancy and belief about the drink consumed has on the pharmacological changes observed following glucose consumption.

Between-sex differences in romantic jealousy: substance or spin? A qualitative analysis.

An influential evolutionary account of romantic jealousy proposes that natural selection shaped a specific sexually-dimorphic psychological mechanism in response to relationship threat. However, this account has faced considerable theoretical and methodological criticism and it remains unclear whether putative sex differences in romantic jealousy actually exist and, if they do, whether they are consistent with its predictions. Given the multidimensional nature of romantic jealousy, the current study employed a qualitative design to examine these issues.