Non-Invasive Solutions to Identify Distinctions Between Healthy and Mild Cognitive Impairments Participants.

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition characterized by impairment in a single cognitive domain or mild deficit in several cognitive domains. MCI patients are at increased risk of progression to dementia with almost 50% of MCI patients developing dementia within five years. Early detection can play an important role in early intervention, prevention, and appropriate treatments.

Understanding Identity Changes in Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Background And Objective: Experiencing psychosis can be associated with changes in how people see themselves as individuals and in relation to others (ie, changes in their identity). However, identity changes receive little attention in treatment, possibly due to a lack of clarity or consensus around what identity change means in people with psychosis. We aimed to create a conceptual framework synthesizing how identity changes are understood in the psychosis literature.

Childhood cancer survivorship: barriers and preferences.

Objective: Many survivors are disengaged from follow-up, mandating alternative models of survivorship-focused care for late effects surveillance. We explored survivors' barriers to accessing, and preferences for survivorship care.

Methods: We invited Australian and New Zealand survivors of childhood cancer from three age groups: <16 years (represented by parents), 16-25 years (adolescent and young adults (AYAs)) and >25 years ('older survivors').

Changing from the inside out? Examining relationships between overweight identification, dieting behaviours, and body measurements over time.

Objective: To investigate whether changes in overweight identification were associated with dieting behaviours and body measurements over time.

Design: Longitudinal study with assessments at three time points: before and twice during (i.e.

Similarly Torn, Differentially Shorn? The Experience and Management of Conflict between Multiple Roles, Relationships, and Social Categories.

In three studies we examined the experience and management of conflict between different types of multiple identities. Participants described a conflict between pairs of role, relational, or social identities before rating the experience (i.e.

Having a lot of a good thing: multiple important group memberships as a source of self-esteem.

Membership in important social groups can promote a positive identity. We propose and test an identity resource model in which personal self-esteem is boosted by membership in additional important social groups. Belonging to multiple important group memberships predicts personal self-esteem in children (Study 1a), older adults (Study 1b), and former residents of a homeless shelter (Study 1c).

Perceived control qualifies the effects of threat on prejudice.

People sometimes show a tendency to lash out in a prejudiced manner when they feel threatened. This research shows that the relationship between threat and prejudice is moderated by people's levels of perceived control: Threat leads to prejudice only when people feel concurrently low in control. In two studies, terrorist threat was associated with heightened prejudice among people who were low in perceived control over the threat (Study 1; N = 87) or over their lives in general (Study 2; N = 2,394), but was not associated with prejudice among people who were high in perceived control.

Neurogenic and psychogenic acute postconcussion symptoms can be identified after mild traumatic brain injury.

Objectives: As provenance of postconcussion symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is controversial, with similar rates found in other populations, we aimed to identify postconcussion symptoms specific to mTBI compared with controls. We also compared differences between complicated and uncomplicated mTBIs.

Setting: Hospital emergency department.

The role of psychological symptoms and social group memberships in the development of post-traumatic stress after traumatic injury.

Objectives: The costs associated with traumatic injury are often exacerbated by the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms. However, it is unclear what decreases the development of post-traumatic symptoms over time. The aim of the present research was to examine the role of psychological symptoms and social group memberships in reducing the development of post-traumatic stress symptoms after orthopaedic injuries (OIs) and acquired brain injuries (ABIs).

Water clubs in residential care: is it the water or the club that enhances health and well-being?

Recent research suggests that establishing water clubs in care homes can counteract the dangers of dehydration and enhance residents' health and well-being. This study provided an experimental test of this idea, and also explored the possibility that it is the social interaction that clubs provide which delivers health-related benefits. Consistent with this hypothesis, the study found no evidence that, on its own, increased focus on water consumption enhanced residents' health or well-being.

No country for old men? The role of a 'Gentlemen's Club' in promoting social engagement and psychological well-being in residential care.

Objective: Social isolation is a common problem in older people who move into care that has negative consequences for well-being. This is of particular concern for men, who are marginalised in long-term care settings as a result of their reduced numbers and greater difficulty in accessing effective social support, relative to women. However, researchers in the social identity tradition argue that developing social group memberships can counteract the effects of isolation.

Stigma and depression during pregnancy: does race matter?

Rates of depression treatment are low in pregnant women, particularly Black women. Stigma is an important barrier to treatment, but little research has examined how depression stigma differs in Blacks and Whites; a key purpose of this study. Participants were 532 pregnant women recruited in obstetrics settings, who responded to measures of stigma and mood.

That which doesn't kill us can make us stronger (and more satisfied with life): the contribution of personal and social changes to well-being after acquired brain injury.

This study examined the roles of personal and social changes on the relationship between injury severity and life satisfaction among individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI). Personal change (i.e.