Publications by authors named "Xiaoou Bu"

Objective: Negative emotions are common among patients in medical settings. It is important to investigate impacts of patient power and affect labeling on emotional experience in patients.

Methods: Behavioral judgments and event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants with high or low patient power made emotional judgments (positive, negative) about neutral faces, as well as investigating how affect labeling (affect labeling, viewing) influenced emotional judgments about neutral faces in participants with low patient power.

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Objectives: This study aimed to explore the latent profiles of coronavirus-related health literacy among Chinese residents and investigate whether some predictive factors are linked with different latent subgroups of coronavirus-related health literacy.

Design/setting: This study was a cross-sectional survey conducted among Chinese residents beginning in April 2020.

Participants: A total of 1610 Chinese residents aged 15 to 69 years were involved and were asked to complete the questionnaire about coronavirus-related health literacy, demographic information, and COVID-19 pandemic-related information.

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Background: Patient satisfaction is an important outcome domain of patient-centered care. Medical humanization follows the patient-centered principle and provides a more holistic view to treat patients. The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant barriers to maintaining medical humanization.

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The outbreak of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an opportunity to improve the health literacy of rural residents. This study aims to explore the levels of health literacy among rural residents during the COVID-19 pandemic and investigate the effects of COVID-19-related variables on the health literacy of rural residents. A total of 882 rural residents aged 15-69 years in Shaanxi province participated in this study and completed the questionnaires about health literacy and COVID-19-related variables.

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  • This study explores how deafness affects brain development, specifically focusing on attentional functions and brain network connectivity in prelingual profoundly deaf individuals compared to healthy controls.
  • Researchers analyzed resting-state EEG and event-related potentials from Attention Network Tests with a total of 70 participants, finding notable differences in brain connectivity and attentional responses between the two groups.
  • Results indicated that deaf individuals demonstrated weaker frontal-occipital connections, longer reaction times, and a distinct alerting response, while their orienting functions were similar to those of hearing individuals.
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Neuroscientists have emphasized visceral influences on consciousness and attention, but the potential neurophysiological pathways remain under exploration. Here, we found two neurophysiological pathways of heart-brain interaction based on the relationship between oxygen-transport by red blood cells (RBCs) and consciousness/attention. To this end, we collected a dataset based on the routine physical examination, the breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS) paradigm, and an attention network test (ANT) in 140 immigrants under the hypoxic Tibetan environment.

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The Approximate Number System (ANS) allows humans and non-human animals to estimate large quantities without counting. It is most commonly studied in visual contexts (i.e.

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Many studies have shown that high-altitude exposure could significantly influence human cognition, and the approaches which could enhance the human cognition in high-altitude hypoxia environment attract great attention. In the present study, we recruited a total of 60 subjects who had been migrated to Tibet University as adults for more than one year. These participants were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group.

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