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Alfred W. Kaszniak
Researcher at University of Arizona
Publications - 133
Citations - 10524
Alfred W. Kaszniak is an academic researcher from University of Arizona. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dementia & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 133 publications receiving 10054 citations. Previous affiliations of Alfred W. Kaszniak include McKnight Brain Institute & Rush University Medical Center.
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Clinical trial of indomethacin in Alzheimer's disease
Joseph Rogers,L. C. Kirby,S. R. Hempelman,D. L. Berry,Patrick L. McGeer,Alfred W. Kaszniak,J. Zalinski,M. Cofield,L. Mansukhani,P. Willson,F. Kogan +10 more
TL;DR: Indomethacin appeared to protect mild to moderately impaired Alzheimer's disease patients from the degree of cognitive decline exhibited by a well-matched, placebo-treated group.
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Conceptual and methodological issues in research on mindfulness and meditation.
TL;DR: Key topics are the role of first-person experience and how it can be best studied, the challenges posed by intervention research designs in which true double-blinding is not possible, the nature of control and comparison conditions for research that includes mindfulness or other meditation-based interventions, and considerations regarding the structure of study design and data analyses.
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Impaired verbal and nonverbal emotion recognition in alexithymia
Richard D. Lane,Lee Sechrest,Robert Reidel,Victoria Weldon,Alfred W. Kaszniak,Gary E. Schwartz +5 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that alexithymia is associated with impaired verbal and nonverbal recognition of emotion stimuli and that the hallmark of alexithsymia, a difficulty in putting emotion into words, may be a marker of a more general impairment in the capacity for emotion information processing.
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Is alexithymia the emotional equivalent of blindsight
TL;DR: Alexithymic individuals manifest bland or flattened affect, tend to be somatically preoccupied, express themselves through action and nonverbal behavior, are interpersonally distant, become disorganized under stress, lack imagination and insight, and tends to be socially conforming.