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Chestnut Hill College
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About: Chestnut Hill College is a education organization based out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 743 authors who have published 996 publications receiving 32662 citations. The organization is also known as: CHC & Mount Saint Joseph College.
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TL;DR: A theoretical model is proposed to clarify and predict changes in QOL as a result of the interaction of a catalyst, referring to changes in the respondent's health status, and a dynamic feedback loop aimed at maintaining or improving the perception of QOL.
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TL;DR: Between-group differences in prefrontal cortical thickness were most pronounced in older participants, suggesting that meditation might offset age-related cortical thinning, and data provide the first structural evidence for experience-dependent cortical plasticity associated with meditation practice.
Abstract: Previous research indicates that long-term meditation practice is associated with altered resting electroencephalogram patterns, suggestive of long lasting changes in brain activity. We hypothesized that meditation practice might also be associated with changes in the brain’s physical structure. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to assess cortical thickness in 20 participants with extensive Insight meditation experience, which involves focused attention to internal experiences. Brain regions associated with attention, interoception and sensory processing were thicker in meditation participants than matched controls, including the prefrontal cortex and right anterior insula. Between-group diierences in prefrontal cortical thickness were most pronounced in older participants, suggesting that meditation might oiset age-related cortical thinning. Finally, the thickness of two regions correlated with meditation experience. These data provide the ¢rst structural evidence for experience-dependent cortical plasticity associated with meditation practice. NeuroReport 16:1893^1897 � c 2005 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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TL;DR: This work focuses on the conceptualization of pain catastrophizing, highlighting its conceptual history and potential problem areas, and discusses a number of theoretical mechanisms of action: appraisal theory, attention bias/information processing, communal coping, CNS pain processing mechanisms, psychophysiological pathways and neural pathways.
Abstract: Pain catastrophizing is conceptualized as a negative cognitive–affective response to anticipated or actual pain and has been associated with a number of important pain-related outcomes. In the present review, we first focus our efforts on the conceptualization of pain catastrophizing, highlighting its conceptual history and potential problem areas. We then focus our discussion on a number of theoretical mechanisms of action: appraisal theory, attention bias/information processing, communal coping, CNS pain processing mechanisms, psychophysiological pathways and neural pathways. We then offer evidence to suggest that pain catastrophizing represents an important process factor in pain treatment. We conclude by offering what we believe represents an integrated heuristic model for use by researchers over the next 5 years; a model we believe will advance the field most expediently.
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TL;DR: Qualitative considerations and promising assessment approaches for measuring response shift phenomenon in observational and interventional clinical research are presented and its hierarchical structure is discussed.
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TL;DR: It is found that legitimating accounts are intertwined with the construction of social identities, which serve to legitimate, on the one hand, an account maker's participation in the discourse and set of claims, and on the other, the involvement of proponents and crucial audiences.
Abstract: We empirically explore the legitimating accounts for and against policies precluding workplace discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, focusing on how agents working at both the national level and within organizations use broader cultural accounts in building their legitimating accounts in local settings. The diffusion perspective in institutional theory has portrayed how agents import 'ready-to-wear' cultural accounts. In contrast, translation theory depicts how agents interpret and adapt cultural accounts as they fashion them into legitimating accounts for a local setting. An alternative would theorize accounts that are neither strictly borrowed nor idiosyncratically tailored. We advanced a third perspective, drawing on frame analysis as it is used in social movement theory. Framing theory attends to both the importance of cultural building blocks and the embedded ways in which agents relate to and shape systems of meaning and mobilize collective action to change social arrangements. We find that legitimating accounts are intertwined with the construction of social identities, which serve to legitimate, on the one hand, an account maker's participation in the discourse and set of claims, and on the other hand, the involvement of proponents and crucial audiences. We suggest that the mobilizing potential of legitimating accounts rests in part on their messages becoming 'autocommunicational,' so that listeners identify themselves with the message.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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C. Ronald Kahn | 144 | 525 | 79809 |
Kenneth J. Rothman | 92 | 537 | 43427 |
Robert E. Cohen | 91 | 412 | 32494 |
Robert R. Edwards | 79 | 392 | 22488 |
Alexander M. Walker | 75 | 273 | 20776 |
Desmond A. Schatz | 72 | 356 | 25000 |
Richard A. Friedman | 67 | 273 | 16549 |
Charles Poole | 67 | 259 | 24483 |
Paolo Pozzilli | 66 | 554 | 17261 |
Herbert Benson | 65 | 175 | 20807 |
Arch G. Woodside | 64 | 494 | 17826 |
Elizabeth A. Kensinger | 62 | 198 | 12892 |
Dunwei Wang | 61 | 174 | 16343 |
Thomas N. Seyfried | 61 | 267 | 12442 |
Gerry Oster | 60 | 246 | 14294 |