Reinstatement of encoding context during recollection: behavioural and neuroimaging evidence of a double dissociation.

In both a behavioural and neuroimaging study, we examined whether memory performance and the pattern of brain activation during a word recognition task differed depending on the type of visual context presented during encoding. Participants were presented with a list of words, paired with either a picture of famous face, a famous scene, or a scrambled image, to study for a later recognition test. During the recognition test, participants made 'remember', 'know', or 'new' responses to words presented alone.

A Balanced Time Perspective in Adulthood: Well-being and Developmental Effects.

This article presents a study that directly replicated the recently developed Balanced Time Perspective Scale (BTPS; J.D. Webster, 2011 ) and included middle-aged and older adults.

Electrodermal activity at acupuncture points differentiates patients with current pain from pain-free controls.

This study evaluated whether electrodermal resistance at acupuncture points (AP) systematically varies as a function of pain. The study was conceived as a proof-of-principle study in support of research on acupuncture and other complementary medicine approaches. Specifically, this study investigates whether or not electrodermal activity systematically differentiates arthritis patients with current pain from pain-free controls.

Wisdom and mental health across the lifespan.

Objectives: The relationships between wisdom and age and between wisdom and mental health are complex with empirical results often inconsistent. We used a lifespan sample and broad, psychometrically sound measures of wisdom and mental health to test for possible age trends in wisdom and its subcomponents and the relationship between wisdom and hedonic and eudaimonic aspects of well-being.

Method: Participants included 512 Dutch adults ranging in age from 17 to 92 (M age = 46.

The missing link: evolution of the primate cerebellum.

The cerebellum has too often been seen as the "little brain," subservient to the "big brain," the cerebrum. That is changing, as neuroimaging uncovers the cerebellum as the "missing link" in the neurological underpinnings of many cognitive domains. Connections between the neocortex and the cerebellum are now more precisely defined, with functionally localized areas of cerebellar cortex understood for cognitive tasks in humans.

Evaluation guideline for managing chronic pain.

The purpose of this paper was to present the findings of an evaluation of the effectiveness of a pain guideline. A review of the literature was completed and relevant background information provided. Evaluation methods were identified and results presented.

Perinatal beliefs and practices of immigrant Punjabi women living in Canada.

Objective: To describe new immigrant Punjabi women's perinatal experiences and the ways that traditional beliefs and practices are legitimized and incorporated into the Canadian health care context.

Design: Naturalistic qualitative descriptive.

Participants/setting: Fifteen first-time mothers who had immigrated in the past 5 years to Canada from Punjab, India, and had given birth to a healthy infant in the past 3 months in a large urban center in British Columbia, Canada.

Measuring the character strength of wisdom.

This study examined the psychosocial correlates and psychometric properties of the Self-Assessed Wisdom Scale (SAWS). Seventy-three men and 98 women ranging in age from 17-92 years (Mean age = 42.77) completed an expanded, 40-item version of the SAWS, the Loyola Generativity Scale, and the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale.

Reminiscence and vivid personal memories across adulthood.

This study examined reminiscence functions and vivid (i.e., landmark) personal memories in nine samples ranging from the teens to the nineties.

The influence of family on immigrant South Asian women's health.

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of family members on immigrant South Asian women's health and health-seeking behavior. This qualitative study was part of a larger study that examined the health-seeking practices of immigrant South Asian women living in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Using ethnographic methods, data were collected through face-to-face interviews with women who had lived in Canada for 10 months to 31 years.

A Pap test screening clinic in a South Asian community of Vancouver, British Columbia: challenges to maintaining utilization.

The purpose of this article is to describe experiences and challenges in establishing a South Asian Pap Test Clinic. The specialized Pap test clinic for immigrant South Asian women was a community-initiated response to high rates of cervical cancer within this population. Efforts were made to ensure that the clinic provided health services in a sensitive and culturally appropriate manner.

The reminiscence circumplex and autobiographical memory functions.

This study investigated the potential of a circumplex model to represent the functions of both reminiscence and autobiographical memory. Participants from four pre-existing data bases (i.e.

Expansion of the neocerebellum in Hominoidea.

Technological and conceptual breakthroughs have led to more serious consideration of the cerebellum as an essential element in cognition. Recent studies show the lateral cerebellum, seat of the neocerebellum, to be most active in cognitive tasks. An examination of the relative volumes of the cerebellar hemispheres in anthropoids would reveal whether some groups show greater neocerebellar development through hemispheric expansion beyond expected allometry, implying a greater contribution of the lateral hemispheres to cognition.

Considering the nature of intersubjectivity within professional nursing.

The notion of intersubjectivity raises fundamental epistemological and ontological questions concerning how individuals come to know one another and how that knowing affects action. Within the sphere of professional nursing, relationship, as an intersubjective process between individuals, constitutes an integral element of professional nursing practice. Understanding the notion of relationship in terms of an intersubjective process is frequently laden with difficulty due to the polarization of intersubjectivity within either a traditional scientific position or a human science perspective.

Living in a housing co-operative for low income women: issues of identity, environment and control.

The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of how living on a low income affects the health of women and focused on the experiences of women living in a new housing co-operative built exclusively for unattached, low income women of middle age. Initially, the main focus of this study was the health beliefs, concerns, and practices of women living on a low income. As the study evolved, however, the experience of living in the housing co-operative was of such concern to the participants that the effects of housing on health came to have greater importance.

Families and children's chronic conditions: knowledge development and methodological considerations.

The complexity of studying families has been a deterrent in the development of knowledge about families as the unit of care. When chronicity in childhood is combined with family study, research and theory development is particularly challenging. Although publication in the field of chronic illness in childhood has been quite prolific, there are few comprehensive, recognizably organized ways to think about providing care for the family as a whole.