Publications by authors named "Shira C Segal"
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- * The study focused on two main aspects: the effectiveness of various maternal regulatory attempts (MRAs) in calming frustrated infants during a toy removal task and the influence of maternal mind-mindedness on the choice of these strategies.
- * Results showed that distraction and control strategies were the most effective at reducing infant frustration, while a mother's ability to understand her infant's mental state was linked to her effectiveness in using these strategies.
There is growing interest in the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and sleep problems in youth, including the development of a theoretical model proposing how these disorders maintain each other. The model suggests that OCD symptoms are proposed to interfere with sleep duration (e.g.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic caused many developmental researchers to struggle with data collection due to the closure of in-person labs and safety concerns with face-to-face interactions.
- Longitudinal studies were particularly affected, as data loss at one point can impact future testing, threatening the overall study's success.
- To adapt, researchers modified two parent-infant interaction tasks for remote online testing, detailing the strengths and challenges of this new format and offering recommendations for applying it to other behavioral tasks.
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- - The study explored if infant temperament could predict whether babies would drop out of research tasks at 3.5 and 7 months old.
- - Findings revealed that temperament did not influence dropout rates, and dropout varied between different tasks over time.
- - The results imply that individual temperament doesn't consistently relate to study participation, suggesting benefits for using diverse methods in research to handle dropout.
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- Seven-month-old infants show a strong preference for looking at fearful faces compared to happy faces, indicating an attentional bias.
- The study utilized eye tracking to analyze how infants' scanning patterns relate to their attraction to fearful faces, focusing on specific facial features like the eyes.
- Findings revealed that infants paid more attention to fearful eyes, suggesting they play a key role in capturing attention and may help explain how infants develop emotion recognition skills.
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- - This study investigates how 7-month-old infants visually process dynamic emotional expressions, focusing on their scanning strategies during passive viewing.
- - Eye-tracking data showed that infants pay more attention to the eyes in angry and neutral faces, while they focus more on the mouth for happy faces, indicating emotion-specific scanning.
- - The findings suggest that by 7 months, infants are beginning to recognize and differentiate emotional expressions based on their critical features, which could help us understand their developing emotion recognition abilities.
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- Adults struggle more than children in recognizing emotions from different cultural backgrounds, but children's results show mixed outcomes.
- A study with Canadian participants revealed that adults recognized emotions better than older children, who outperformed younger children, especially with happy expressions.
- South Asian participants had an advantage in identifying emotions in own-race faces compared to other-race faces, indicating a partial support for own-race bias, yet highlighting the need for more research on emotion recognition across different races within the same culture.
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- * Previous research found that people often struggle to recognize emotions from other cultural groups, but this study aimed to separate the effects of race from cultural differences.
- * Surprisingly, the findings showed that race did not create an advantage in recognizing emotions, with participants recognizing South Asian expressions better overall, challenging assumptions about in-group preference in emotion recognition.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a treatment that delivers 100% oxygen at increased atmospheric pressures. The efficacy of HBOT for treating pain has been described in various animal pain models and may have clinical efficacy in the treatment of human chronic pain syndromes. We present our experience with posttraumatic Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) type 2 in a patient who underwent 15 sessions of HBOT.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith an estimated lifetime prevalence as high as 5.9% in the general population, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity as well as difficulties in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects. The burden on the health care system is immense with BPD patients accounting for 10%-20% of the patients in mental health outpatient facilities and 15%-40% in mental health inpatient facilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Early intervention with evidence-based treatment is important to halt the progression from early manifestations of personality disorder traits to adult personality disorders. The purpose of this study is to evaluate dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) modified for an adolescent population with borderline personality disorder (BPD), offered within a stepped-care model.
Methods: Seven adolescents (M=1, F=6, Mage=16.