4 results match your criteria: "The D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR)[Affiliation]"
Transcranial electrical stimulation modulates emotional experience and metabolites in the prefrontal cortex in a donation task.
Sci Rep
June 2024
Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Understanding the neural, metabolic, and psychological mechanisms underlying human altruism and decision-making is a complex and important topic both for science and society. Here, we investigated whether transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) applied to two prefrontal cortex regions, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC, anode) and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC, cathode) can induce changes in self-reported emotions and to modulate local metabolite concentrations. We employed in vivo quantitative MR Spectroscopy in healthy adult participants and quantified changes in GABA and Glx (glutamate + glutamine) before and after five sessions of tDCS delivered at 2 mA for 20 min (active group) and 1 min (sham group) while participants were engaged in a charitable donation task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe extended neural architecture of human attachment: An fMRI coordinate-based meta-analysis of affiliative studies.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev
April 2024
Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics Unit, The D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; IDOR - Pioneer Science Initiative, São Paulo, Brazil.
Article Synopsis
- Functional imaging studies show that brain areas important for social cognition are linked with ancient brain structures, helping form human attachment and emotions.
- Recent advancements with fMRI have helped researchers better understand how the brain responds to different attachment figures, but past analyses faced challenges like low statistical power.
- This meta-analysis of 79 fMRI studies highlights important brain regions related to social bonding and motivation, providing new insights into the neural mechanisms of human affiliation and expanding the known attachment circuitry to include uniquely human brain areas.
Kraepelin's schizophasia: Chaotic speech with preservation of comprehension and activities of daily living.
Cortex
August 2023
The D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; The Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address:
Background: In his classic account of dementia praecox Kraepelin reserved a few pages for a small number of psychotic patients with disorganized speech but who retained the ability to cope with their daily lives.
Case Report: A 49-year-old homemaker has been suffering from a continuous hallucinatory-delusional state since she was 24 years old. Her verbal and written language was chaotic and full of neologisms, but fluent and grammatically correct.
Phobia of the Supernatural: A Distinct but Poorly Recognized Specific Phobia With an Adverse Impact on Daily Living.
Front Psychiatry
November 2018
The D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The psychological and psychiatric literature has seldom appreciated the clinical fact that fears of ghosts and kindred supernatural worries may be a cause of intense discomfort, poor sleep, and socio-occupational impairment. In the present article, this claim is illustrated by the clinical features of six patients who developed intense anxiety when they had to sleep alone at night. The fears were first noticed in childhood and persisted into adolescence and adulthood.
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