Publications by authors named "M M Gondo"
The effects of image resolution and exposure duration on facial beauty and ugliness evaluations.
Acta Psychol (Amst)
February 2025
The beauty or ugliness of a face is affected by factors such as the resolution of the face image presented on the screen and its exposure duration. The present study investigated the effects of image resolution and exposure duration on the beauty and ugliness evaluations of face images processed with down-sampling and Gaussian blurring. We prepared two types of face images with these blur processing treatments and conducted two experiments to evaluate beauty and ugliness perceptions at various exposure durations.
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- The study investigated resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) in individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) using functional MRI data from 114 patients and 135 healthy controls, addressing limitations from previous research due to small sample sizes.
- Results indicated that AN patients exhibited 12 areas of stronger connectivity primarily in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and 33 areas of weaker connectivity, particularly in regions associated with the cerebellum, temporal lobe, and visual network.
- The findings suggest that the patterns of rsFC could serve as potential diagnostic markers to differentiate AN patients from healthy individuals, with notable distinctions observed between AN subtypes.
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- - A multicenter study aimed to identify brain abnormalities in women with anorexia nervosa (AN) using structural MRI, addressing limitations of previous research related to small sample sizes.
- - The study included 103 AN patients and 102 healthy controls, analyzing gray matter volume (GMV) and the relationship between brain structure and severity of eating disorder symptoms.
- - Key findings indicated significant reductions in GMV in various brain regions of AN patients, with some areas showing positive correlations with symptom severity, enhancing the understanding of AN's pathogenesis and potential imaging biomarkers.
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a disease characterized by chronic widespread pain concomitant with psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and depression. It has been reported that FM patients engage in pain catastrophizing. In this study, we investigated characteristics of the brain volume of female FM patients and the association between psychological indices and brain volume.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Alexithymia, a personality trait characterized by difficulties in identifying and expressing their emotions despite having a range of emotional experiences, can impact individuals' stress coping mechanisms. While many studies have investigated brain functions associated with specific tasks in relation to emotion processing, research focusing on resting-state brain functions has been limited. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between alexithymia and brain function by analyzing arterial spin labeling (ASL) data obtained during the resting state.
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