Elements of Long-Term Care That Promote Quality of Life for Indigenous and First Nations Peoples: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Background And Objectives: Little is known about elements of long-term care (LTC) that promote quality of life (QoL) for older Indigenous and First Nations peoples. This systematic review aimed to extend understanding of those deemed most important.

Research Design And Methods: Following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, systematic database and hand-searching were used to find published and unpublished qualitative studies and textual reports.

Impact of Cystic Fibrosis on Unaffected Siblings: A Systematic Review.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the evidence to determine the impact of cystic fibrosis (CF) on unaffected siblings.

Study Design: We searched MEDLINE (Ovid interface, from 1946); EMBASE (Ovid interface, from 1946); CINAHL (EBSCO interface); Academic Search Complete (EBSCO interface); Psych Info (EBSCO interface); ProQuest Theses' and Dissertation's (ProQuest); British Index of Nursing (ProQuest); Web of Science (ISI, Web of Knowledge portal); PubMed (PubMed NCBI); BASE (Bielefeld Academic Research Engine); Scopus; EThOS (e-theses online service); Open Grey; and Cochrane Library. Contents pages of the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis, June 2002-April 2017 were hand searched to identify further eligible studies.

A prospective study of the effects of anterior temporal lobectomy on emotion recognition and theory of mind.

Nineteen patients evaluated facial emotional expressions and performed 'theory of mind' reasoning tasks before and after a temporal lobectomy for medically intractable epilepsy, and results were compared with the performance of 19 healthy controls. Following operation, which in all cases resulted in excision of the entire amygdala, there was no change in the ability to reason about the mental states of others, in line with the suggestion that the anterior temporal lobe is not necessary for theory of mind reasoning. However, following a left anterior temporal lobectomy, patients evaluated fearful facial expressions in a more normative manner.

The impact of early and late damage to the human amygdala on 'theory of mind' reasoning.

There is a burgeoning interest in the neural basis of the ability to attribute mental states to others; a capacity referred to as 'theory of mind' (ToM). We examined the effects of lesions of the amygdala which arise at different stages of development on this key aspect of social cognition. Tests of ToM, executive and general neuropsychological function were given to subjects with lesions of the amygdala arising congenitally or in early childhood ('early damage', n = 15), subjects who acquired damage to the amygdala in adulthood ('late damage' n = 11) and matched clinical (n = 14) and healthy comparison groups (n = 38).