Publications by authors named "P Kirsch"
Belief processing and self-referential processing have been consistently associated with cortical midline structures, and cortical regions such as the vmPFC have been implicated in general belief processing. The neural correlates of self-referential belief are yet to be investigated. In this fMRI study, we presented 120 statements with trait adjectives to N = 27 healthy participants, who subsequently judged whether they believed these trait adjectives applied to themselves, a close person, or a public person.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnxiety and depression disorders show high prevalence rates, and stress is a significant risk factor for both. However, studies investigating the interplay between anxiety, depression, and stress regulation in the brain are scarce. The present manuscript included 124 law students from the LawSTRESS project.
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- In May 2017, whole-genome sequencing became the main method for identifying bacterial strains in Canada, leading to the discovery of 16 multi-jurisdictional outbreaks linked to frozen raw breaded chicken products between 2017 and 2019.
- Of the 487 reported cases, there were 79 hospitalizations and 2 deaths, mainly involving individuals with a median age of 24 years, with the majority of outbreaks linked to a specific bacterial strain.
- Following ineffective prior measures, new regulations were introduced in 2019 to enforce manufacturing practices aimed at reducing bacteria levels, and since their implementation, no further outbreaks related to these products have occurred in Canada.
Humans are highly social, typically without this ability requiring noticeable efforts. Yet, such social fluency poses challenges both for the human brain to compute and for scientists to study. Over the last few decades, neuroscientific research of human sociality has witnessed a shift in focus from single-brain analysis to complex dynamics occurring across several brains, posing questions about what these dynamics mean and how they relate to multifaceted behavioural models.
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- Two types of racemic compounds, specifically -4,6-diphenyl-5,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxanes, were synthesized.
- The enantiomers of these compounds were tested for their effectiveness as chiral dopants.
- The focus of this research was on their potential use in improving liquid-crystal materials.