Publications by authors named "N J Dam"

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  • Meditation can boost well-being, but beginners often struggle with recognizing and stopping their thoughts during practice, which can limit its benefits.
  • A study with 40 novice meditators explored whether personalized neurofeedback could help them better disengage from their thoughts while meditating.
  • The experimental group that received feedback showed improved mental control during meditation, resulting in better emotional well-being and mindfulness during a week of self-guided practice.
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The impact of others' choices on decision-making is influenced by individual preferences. However, the specific roles of individual preferences in social decision-making remain unclear. In this study, we examine the contributions of risk and loss preferences as well as social influence in decision-making under uncertainty using a gambling task.

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Previous studies showed that aphid performance was compromised on Brassica nigra infected by root-lesion nematodes (Pratylenchus penetrans, Pp), but less, or positively influenced by root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) infection. These experiments were on single-species nematode infections, but roots can be infected naturally with several nematode species simultaneously.

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Solanaceous plants, such as Solanum dulcamara, produce steroidal glycosides (SGs). Leaf SG profiles vary among S. dulcamara individuals, leading to distinct phytochemical phenotypes ('chemotypes') and intraspecific phytochemical diversity ('chemodiversity').

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Mental disorders are increasingly understood as involving complex alterations of self that emerge from dynamical interactions of constituent elements, including cognitive, bodily, affective, social, narrative, cultural and normative aspects and processes. An account of self that supports this view is the pattern theory of self (). The is a non-reductive account of the self, consistent with both embodied-enactive cognition and phenomenological psychopathology; it foregrounds the multi-dimensionality of subjects, stressing situated embodiment and intersubjective processes in the formation of the self-pattern.

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