The reception of public health messages during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Understanding the reception of public health messages in public-facing communications is of key importance to health agencies in managing crises, pandemics, and other health threats. Established public health communications strategies including self-efficacy messaging, fear appeals, and moralising messaging were all used during the Coronavirus pandemic. We explore the reception of public health messages to understand the efficacy of these established messaging strategies in the COVID-19 context.

Three-dimensional in vivo planum temporale reconstruction.

We describe a new multistep technique for three-dimensional reconstruction and analysis of the in vivo planum temporale (PT) based on the manipulation of magnetic resonance raw data obtained with a special protocol. Measurements of left and right plana confirm previous neuroanatomical descriptions of a larger left planum temporale. This method can be easily adopted, allowing anatomically valid PT measurements.

Planum temporale asymmetry and thought disorder in schizophrenia.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was used to investigate the size and the asymmetry of the planum temporale (PT) in 22 schizophrenic patients and 23 strictly matched healthy volunteers. The degree of thought disorder was related to the reduction of the physiological PT asymmetry. When thought disordered patients were contrasted with non-thought disordered patients and healthy controls for a measure of PT laterality, those with thought disorder showed a statistically significant loss of PT laterality.

Neuropsychological and clinical correlates of temporal lobe anatomy in schizophrenia.

Twenty-five DSM-III schizophrenic patients were assessed neuromorphologically and neuropsychologically. Reduced temporal lobes were found through magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evaluation. In addition, in order to look for the neuropsychological correlates of temporal anatomy in schizophrenia, patients were divided into cognitive normal and abnormal schizophrenics, according to their Luria Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery profile.

Reduced temporal lobe areas in schizophrenia: preliminary evidences from a controlled multiplanar magnetic resonance imaging study.

Seventeen young patients with relapsing schizophrenia and 13 normal controls matched for age, gender, and educational level underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. Three sagittal, eight axial, and seven coronal images were obtained for all subjects. Schizophrenic patients showed a reduction of brain tissue in the temporal lobes.