Showing papers by "Jeffrey E. Cassisi published in 1997"
TL;DR: Patients with diverse neurologic and psychiatric diagnoses were subdivided into high, low, and non-confabulator groups based upon the ratio of confabulations to total responses produced during story recall, and there were no differences between groups on measures of problem-solving, concept formation, and verbal fluency, suggesting a dissociation in executive functions that contribute to confabulation.
Abstract: Confabulation has traditionally been attributed to a combination of memory impairment and executive dysfunction, but recent models propose that confabulation can result from executive dysfunction alone. One hundred and ten patients with diverse neurologic and psychiatric diagnoses were subdivided into high-, low-, and non-confabulator groups based upon the ratio of confabulations to total responses produced during story recall. Consistent with the combined deficit model, high-confabulators performed significantly worse than the low- and non-confabulators on measures of memory and measures of executive function that assess sustained attention, mental tracking, and set-shifting ability. However, there were no differences between groups on measures of problem-solving, concept formation, and verbal fluency, suggesting a dissociation in executive functions that contribute to confabulation.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship between spouse marital satisfaction and spouse solicitousness to their physiological responsiveness during marital interactions about pain and found that the more satisfied a spouse, the more physiologically reactive the spouses were when listening to the patient describe pain, and the less reactive when responding to it.
Abstract: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spouse marital satisfaction and spouse solicitousness to their physiological responsiveness during marital interactions about pain. Twenty-six couples engaged in a series of structured marital interactions about neutral and pain-related topics while monitored for skin conductance (SC) and heart rate (HR). There was strong support for the role of spouses’ marital satisfaction in predicting their physiological responsiveness. The more satisfied a spouse, the more physiologically reactive the spouses were when listening to the patient describe pain, and the less reactive when responding to it. Dissatisfied spouses demonstrated the opposite pattern. They autonomically deactivated when hearing about the pain and became reactive when responding to it. Solicitousness was not a significant predictor of the spouses’ physiological responsiveness. Block’s (1981) proposed physiological mechanism for the origin of solicitousness in spouses did not receive support. It appears that responding in any fashion may lessen the magnitude of arousal in maritally satisfied spouses, whereas dealing with pain-related topics produces unpleasant arousal in dissatisfied spouses.
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