Publications by authors named "C M Strang"
The evidence base for the effectiveness of art therapy continues to grow, even as a mechanistic understanding of how art therapy works remains limited. One promising avenue for increasing our understanding of how and why art therapy works is through the lens of neuroscience. A neuroscience-based approach to art therapy provides opportunities for improving understanding of the neural processes that underlie the complex interaction between perception, cognition, emotion and behavior that play out in the art therapy process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAgricultural intensification has been identified as one of the key causes of global insect biodiversity losses. These losses have been further linked to the widespread use of agrochemicals associated with modern agricultural practices. Many of these chemicals are known to have negative sublethal effects on commercial pollinators, such as managed honeybees and bumblebees, but less is known about the impacts on wild bees.
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- Humans often place more value on potential losses than gains due to a phenomenon called temporal discounting sign effect, which ties into emotional reactions to awaiting outcomes.
- A study compared decision-making in people with hippocampal amnesia, who struggle with episodic thinking, to healthy controls, examining the impact of anticipated emotions on their choices.
- Results indicated that both groups showed a similar sign effect, with less discounting of losses than gains, suggesting that the sign effect isn't reliant on the hippocampus or episodic memory, but rather on semantic future thinking and broader cognitive processes.
Using a future event fluency task, the current study sought to examine future event construction in PTSD and to identify clinical profiles associated with altered event construction. Thirty-eight trauma exposed war-zone veterans with (n=25) and without (n=13) PTSD generated within one minute as many positive and negative future events as possible in the near and distant future. The PTSD group generated fewer specific, but not generic, events than the no-PTSD group, a difference that was amplified for positive events as a result of comorbid depression.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Accurate farm-level data on antibiotic usage (ABU) are needed for the surveillance of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the accuracy of ABU data capture by dairy farmers in South West England and Wales.
Methods: Through a cross-sectional survey of 48 dairy farmers, the accuracy of ABU recording was measured by farmers' assessment of the completeness and timeliness of ABU recording ('perceived accuracy') and the completeness and correctness of on-farm ABU records ('actual accuracy').