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Feasibility and acceptability of a resilience training program for intensive care unit nurses.

Am J Crit Care

November 2014

Meredith Mealer is an assistant professor and Marc Moss is a professor in the Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado. David Conrad is an instructor for JFK Partners, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine. John Evans and Karen Jooste are integrative health coaches at Duke Integrative Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina. Janet Solyntjes is an adjunct professor at Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado. Barbara Rothbaum is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.

Background: The critical nursing shortage is particularly apparent in specialty areas such as intensive care units (ICUs). Some nurses develop resilient coping strategies and adapt to stressful work experiences, mitigating the development of common maladaptive psychological symptoms.

Objectives: To determine if a multimodal resilience training program for ICU nurses was feasible to perform and acceptable to the study participants.

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Mechanisms of synesthesia: cognitive and physiological constraints.

Trends Cogn Sci

January 2001

Department of Psychology, Naropa University, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, 80302, Boulder, CO, USA

Synesthesia is a conscious experience of systematically induced sensory attributes that are not experienced by most people under comparable conditions. Recent findings from cognitive psychology, functional brain imaging and electrophysiology have shed considerable light on the nature of synesthesia and its neurocognitive underpinnings. These cognitive and physiological findings are discussed with respect to a neuroanatomical framework comprising hierarchically organized cortical sensory pathways.

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