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1. 1. Expecting Happy Women, Not Detecting the Angry Ones : Detection and Perceived Intensity of Facial Anger, Happiness, and Emotionality

   Författare :Tonya S. Pixton; Åke Hellström; Maria Larsson; James A. Russell; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Signal Detection Perception ; Happiness; Anger; Face Perception; Facial Expressions; Superiority Effects; Gender Differences; Response Bias; Scaling; Euclidean Distance; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Sammanfattning : Faces provide cues for judgments regarding the emotional state of individuals. Using signal-detection methodology and a standardized stimulus set, the overall aim of the present dissertation was to investigate the detection of emotional facial expressions (i.e., angry and happy faces) with neutral expressions as the nontarget stimuli. LÄS MER

3. 2. Factors affecting the pharmacological treatment of bipolar disorder

   Författare :Louise Öhlund; Ursula Werneke; Michael Ott; Mikael Sandlund; Allan Young; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Lithium; Bipolar Disorder; Schizoaffective Disorder; Physical Health; Compliance; Medication Adherence; Side Effects; Long Term Adverse Effects; Mood Stabiliser; Admission; Hospitalisation; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Central Nervous System Stimulants; Self-Injurious Behaviour; Non-Suicidal Self Injury; Suicide Attempted; Suicide; psykiatri; Psychiatry;

   Sammanfattning : Background: In patients with bipolar disorder, long-term treatment with mood-stabilisers is often required to prevent manic and depressive episodes. At present, our knowledge remains limited regarding factors that influence the outcomes of mood-stabiliser treatment. LÄS MER

4. 3. Two is one too many : dyadic memory collaboration effects on encoding and retrieval of episodes

   Författare :Jan Andersson; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the present thesis was to investigate how individual memory potential in different tasks is affected by collaboration in social settings. Collaborative group dimensions were also studied: friendship, age, and gender. The principal comparison was between an actual collaborative dyad and the sum of the two individuals' memory potential, i. LÄS MER

5. 4. Myocardial Effects of Type 2 Diabetes, Co-morbidities, and Changing Loading Conditions : a Clinical Study by Tissue Velocity Echocardiography

   Författare :Satish C. Govind; Lars-Åke Brodin; Mohbubul Alam; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medical technology; Medicinsk teknik;

   Sammanfattning : Ever since the validation of the tissue velocity echocardiography (TVE) technique more than a decade ago the modality has been used rather successfully in various clinical situations, at rest as well as during stress echocardiography. Hitherto, dobutamine stress echocardiography has been the hallmark of all forms of stress procedures, now with TVE, quantification of the longitudinal motions of the left ventricle shows far superiority, with improved sensitivity and specificity in the functional diagnosis of coronary artery disease. LÄS MER

7. 5. Clinical molecular imaging of schizophrenia

   Författare :Mirjam Talvik; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Nyckelord :PET; D2 D3 receptors; 5HT2A receptors; antipsychotic drugs; schizophrenia; age effects; raclopride; FLB 457; M100907; clozapine; haloperidol; perphenazine; thalamus; cortex; striatum; PANSS;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to examine pathophysiology and antipsychotic treatment of schizophrenia by using positron emission tomography (PET). The high affinity radioligand [11C]FLB 457 was used for determination of dopamine D2 receptor binding in the thalamus and the cortex of nine drug-naïve patients with schizophrenia and eight control subjects. LÄS MER