Attentional bias toward negative stimuli in PTSD: an eye-tracking study.

Background: Research on biased processing of aversive stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has produced inconsistent results between response time (RT) and eye-tracking studies. Recent RT-based results of dot-probe studies showed no attentional bias (AB) for threat while eye-tracking research suggested heightened sustained attention for this information. Here, we used both RT-based and eye-tracking measures to explore the dynamics of AB to negative stimuli in PTSD.

Intrusive experiences in posttraumatic stress disorder: Treatment response induces changes in the directed functional connectivity of the anterior insula.

Background: One of the core features of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is re-experiencing trauma. The anterior insula (AI) has been proposed to play a crucial role in these intrusive experiences. However, the dynamic function of the AI in re-experiencing trauma and its putative modulation by effective therapy need to be specified.

Factors Associated With Mental Health Disorders Among University Students in France Confined During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Importance: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and quarantine measures have raised concerns regarding their psychological effects on populations. Among the general population, university students appear to be particularly susceptible to experiencing mental health problems.

Objectives: To measure the prevalence of self-reported mental health symptoms, to identify associated factors, and to assess care seeking among university students who experienced the COVID-19 quarantine in France.

Attentional bias towards negative stimuli in healthy individuals and the effects of trait anxiety.

This study aimed to investigate the time course of attentional bias for negative information in healthy individuals and to assess the associated influence of trait anxiety. Thirty-eight healthy volunteers performed an emotional dot-probe task with pairs of negative and neutral scenes, presented for either 1 or 2 s and followed by a target placed at the previous location of either negative or neutral stimulus. Analyses included eye movements during the presentation of the scenes and response times associated with target localization.

Dissociation of explicit and implicit responses during a change blindness task in schizophrenia.

Background: Patients with schizophrenia are abnormally disturbed by information onsets, which may result in a disadvantage in filtering relevant information. The paradigm of change blindness offers the interesting possibility of studying sensitivity to the sudden irruption of visual information with ecological stimuli in schizophrenia. An increased attentional capture by the irruption of visual information would suggest better performance in patients than in healthy controls.

[Hypersexuality in Parkinson's disease. Advantage of the presence of the entourage for medical assessment].

Objective: To improve the management of hypersexuality caused by antiparkinsonian treatment and its psychopathological implications in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). If hypersexuality is a classic form of impulse control disorder (ICD) observed in PD, its rate is certainly underestimated.

Methods: We have proposed to meet patients with Parkinson's disease, referred by the neurology department of Lille University Hospital, for detection or suspicion of hypersexuality, in the presence of their spouse.