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Working Towards Desistance: Canadian Public's Attitudes Towards Sex Offenders, Sex Offender Treatment, and Policy
(2016-07-18)
Understanding public attitudes towards sex offenders and public endorsement of sex offender policy is essential to the development of successful and workable policies that reduce sexual recidivism. The current research ...
Examining an Animal Model of Depression with Recurrent Depression-like Episodes
(2017-01-12)
Depression is a complex psychiatric disorder. It is recognized as a cyclical disease with multiple episode relapses. Many preclinical animal models have been utilized to study the behavioral and neurobiological characteristics ...
Somatosensory Involvement in the Conceptual Representation of Objects
(2016-07-20)
The involvement of the sensorimotor system in visual object processing is at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience research. Since the discovery of the mirror neuron system, a plethora of research has been dedicated to ...
A meta-analytic review of the association between disgust and homonegativity
(2017-11-16)
Researchers suggest that a disgust increases homonegative attitudes toward gay men. While a sizable number of studies have observed this association, to date, no one has attempted to meta-analytically review this corpus ...
The effect of simple and complex dual-tasks on ambulation in individuals with Alzheimer's disease and healthy older adults: the role of divided attention and other higher brain functions in gait dual-task performance
(2012-09-12)
Research using gait-dual task methodology suggests that the ability to divide attention during walking appears to be particularly vulnerable to the effects of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), even in the earliest stages of the ...
Attitudes toward professional women with children: Development and validation of the career mothers inventory (CMI)
(2011-10-12)
Research to date suggests that career mothers comprise a uniquely derogated social group; however, the nature and content of negativity toward this group remains unknown. The purpose of the present program of study was to ...
Conditioning of interictal behaviours, but not ictal behaviours, seizures, or afterdischarge threshold, by kindling of the amygdala in rats
(2007-02-05)
Repeated focal electrical stimulation of the brain results in kindling, the development of generalized seizures that progress in length and severity as more seizures are elicited. Barnes et al. (2001) paired one context ...
An empirical clarification of motivational variables among Saskatchewan people of Indian ancestry
(1964)
A lack of reliable knowledge regarding the problems facing Indian and Metis people has hindered the development of intelligent programs and policies to facilitate their healthy integration into the larger Canadian society. ...
A phenomenological investigation of the role of guilt in obsessive-compulsive disorder
(1994-10)
The current study takes a phenomenological approach to investigating the role of guilt in a sample of persons diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The role of guilt in OCD has been frequently noted in the ...
Sex, estrogen and working memory : the effects of sex-related differences and estrogen suppression on neuropsychological test performance
(2010-01)
This body of research investigates the effects of sex and estrogen on higher brain functions, in general, and on working memory, in particular. A female advantage for object-location and verbal working memory has been ...