eft

Previous studies have failed to show an effect of episodic future thinking (EFT) on children's delay of gratification (DoG), contrasting strikingly with adult findings. Recent findings from a sample of 8-11-year-old children by Canning et al. (J. Exp. Child Psychol., 228, 2023, 105618) indicate that EFT cueing is not effective compared to a no-cue control even when it is reward related. Canning et al. suggest children's DoG performance, unlike that of adults, may be negatively affected by the cognitive load of cueing, but this leaves unexplained why EFT reward-related cueing produced significantly better performance than cueing that did not involve EFT in their study...

OBJECTIVE: The female population with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has a postpartum profile with increased cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and heightened prospective CV risk. Epicardial fat tissue was reported to be related to cardiometabolic diseases as metabolically active adipose tissue and natriuretic peptides (NPs) have been shown to have metabolic effects. This study's aim was to determine the relationship between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and NPs in the female population diagnosed with GDM...

BACKGROUNDS: The primary aim of this study was two-fold: to assess the reliability of the Leuven Embedded Figure Test (L-EFT) in Saudi Arabia (Study 1), and to explore regional differences in independent-interdependent cognitive styles among adults in various regions of Saudi Arabia (Study 2). METHOD: Both Study-1 and Study-2 were structured cross-sectionally. Study 1 involved 360 participants (97 % female) with a median age of 22.51 ± 3.45. Participants completed a demographic questionnaire and the L-EFT task...

CONTEXT: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFTs) can reduce anxiety, depression, PTSD, and phobias. Research has found correlations between attitudes toward money and anxiety and depressive symptomatology. No research has yet examined the effectiveness of EFT in changing money attitudes. OBJECTIVE: The study intended to measure the effectiveness of EFT in changing money attitudes and to contrast EFT's effects delivered virtually or in-person by evaluating multiple markers of stress, including anxiety, depression, pain, happiness, and PTSD...

OBJECTIVES: Patients with functional neurological disorder (FND) are known to have difficulties recognizing and processing emotions. Problems recognizing internal emotional states (alexithymia) are common in FND, but little is known about recognizing emotions expressed by other people. This study investigates whether patients with FND have higher levels of alexithymia and reduced facial emotion recognition compared to healthy controls. METHODS: Patients with FND (n = 31, mean age=42...

Psoriasis is a complex inflammatory skin disease with uncertain pathogenesis. eIF4E (eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E) and its phosphorylation state p-eIF4E are highly expressed in psoriatic tissues. However, the role eIF4E played in psoriasis is still unclear. To investigate the function of eIF4E and p-eIF4E in psoriasis and to figure out whether eFT-508 (Tomivosertib, eIF4E phosphorylation inhibitor) can relieve the disease severity and become a promising candidate for the psoriasis treatment. We first verified the expression of eIF4E and p-eIF4E in psoriasis patients' lesional skin...

(1) Background: Although obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity, the link between OSA and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is not completely elucidated. Thus, we aim to assess cardiovascular risk (CVR) using SCORE 2 and SCORE 2 for older persons (SCORE 2OP), and to evaluate the association between the endothelial biomarkers VCAM-1, ICAM-1, epicardial fat, and sleep study parameters in order to improve current clinical practices and better understand the short-and long-term CVRs in OSA patients...

BACKGROUND: Obesity and related diseases have become one of the leading causes of death worldwide, which has been linked to biopsychosocial effects such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, various cancers, depression, and weight stigma. Episodic future thinking (EFT) has been found to support the development of changes in health behaviors. However, the effectiveness of EFT in enhancing weight loss behavior and health outcomes is not well supported. OBJECTIVE: To establish implementation options for the EFT intervention, and critically synthesize the data that assesses the impact of EFT on weight loss behavior and health outcomes...

Impaired episodic future thinking (EFT), as reflected in reduced specificity, low levels of detail and less use of mental imagery, has been associated with depressive symptomatology. The beneficial impact of Future Event Specificity Training (FEST) on impaired EFT has recently been demonstrated, as well as on anhedonia, the core symptom of depression reflecting low positive affect. The current study aimed to replicate these previous findings. In addition, this study is the first to examine the potential of FEST to reduce engagement in dampening, a maladaptive response style characterised by reducing the intensity and/or frequency of positive emotional states, which is linked to depressive symptoms and anhedonia...

The object ives of this study were to determine the association of methylenetetrahydrofolate reduc tase (MTHFR) gene variant C67 7 T with non -syndromic cl eft lip/palate (NSCLP) in Pakistani population and compare the m aternal serum foli c acid levels in NSCLP-affected and healthy group. A c om parative cross sec ti onal study was conducted between 2017 and 2019 at Liaquat U niversity of Medi cal and Health Science s, Jamshoro. Sixty motherinfant dy ads were recruited (n=120), inc luding NSCLP-affected and healthy infants alo ng with t heir mother s...

In this present age, innovation has become inextricably tied to both long-term economic growth and environmentally sound development. In this context, the impact that environmentally focused technological advancements or innovations have on environmental quality is of the utmost importance. Therefore, the main goal of the present study is to determine how Green innovation ( GI ) affects environmental degradation in the BRICS countries from 1992 to 2021. The ecological footprint ( EFT ) is an indicator used in the study to measure environmental degradation...

PURPOSE: Posterior single-door laminoplasty(PSLP) is a widely practiced clinical procedure, but the occurrence of postoperative axial syndrome(AS) remains a significant concern. The aim of this study was to identify risk factors associated with AS and develop a risk prediction model. METHODS: Clinical data from 226 patients who underwent PSLP between June 2017 and June 2022 were collected. Through Logistic model analysis, the risk factors of AS are clarified and the intensity of each risk factor is explained in the form of forest plot...

Optimizing data-independent acquisition (DIA) methods for proteomics applications often requires balancing spectral resolution and acquisition speed. Here we describe a real-time, full mass range implementation of the Phase-constrained Spectrum Deconvolution Method (ΦSDM) for OrbitrapTM mass spectrometry that increases mass resolving power without increasing scan time. Comparing its performance to the standard enhanced Fourier transformation (eFT) signal processing revealed that the increased resolving power of ΦSDM is beneficial in areas of high peptide density and comes with a greater ability to resolve low-abundance signals...

It is often a challenge for a child to communicate their pain, and their possibilities to do so should be strengthened in healthcare settings. Digital self-assessment provides a potential solution for person-centered care in pain management and promotes child participation when a child is ill. A child's perception of pain assessment differs when it is assessed using digital or analog formats. As we move into the digital era, there is an urgent need to validate digital pain assessment tools, including the newly developed electronic Faces Thermometer Scale (eFTS)...

Romantic relationships are more satisfying and fulfilling when power is balanced relatively equally between partners (Leonhardt et al., Journal of Family Psychology, 34, 2020, and 1). Yet, few couples therapy models explicitly outline how to confront relational power issues (Knudson-Martin & Huenergardt, 2015, Socio-emotional relationship therapy: Bridging emotion, societal context, and couple interaction, Springer). Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT; Johnson, 2020, The practice of emotionally focused couple therapy, Routledge) is a well-established, evidence-based therapy modality that many therapists use with couple clients, yet despite its effectiveness, it does not provide direction for explicitly addressing and treating power differentials in couple relationships...

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is an empirically supported treatment of depression, and an integrative, transdiagnostic therapy approach focusing on transforming emotions that are the cause of a person's emotional pain and suffering. In-session experiential work and two-chair interventions are consolidated and expanded by between-session homework which is viewed as a natural extension of in-session work. As the focus on emotion in EFT necessitates the provision of a safe, attuned, empathic relationship and a good collaboration on the tasks and goals of therapy the use of homework is very well-suited to this approach...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) group intervention on perceived stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms in women in the postpartum period. DESIGN: A one-group pre- and posttest quasi-experimental design. SETTING/LOCAL PROBLEM: Postpartum depression (PPD) and anxiety affect nearly one in five women in the first 12 months after childbirth. The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a significant worsening of symptoms of PPD, stress, and anxiety in this population...

Reports an error in "A comparison of emotion-focused therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder: Results of a feasibility randomized controlled trial" by Ladislav Timulak, Daragh Keogh, Craig Chigwedere, Charlotte Wilson, Fiona Ward, David Hevey, Patrick Griffin, Louise Jacobs, Suzanne Hughes, Christina Vaughan, Kea Beckham and Shona Mahon ( Psychotherapy , 2022[Mar], Vol 59[1], 84-95). In the article, the third n and percentage values in the second sentence in the second paragraph of the Treatment Drop Out, Number of Sessions, Research Attrition section should appear as n = 6 (20...

BACKGROUND: Laminoplasty (LP), a procedure commonly used to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM), often results in the development of axial symptoms (AS) postoperatively. This study aims to analyze the risk factors associated with the occurrence of AS after LP. METHODS: We collected and evaluated clinical data from 264 patients with CSM who underwent LP treatment at our institution from January 2018 to January 2022 through a single-center retrospective study...

INTRODUCTION: High rates of delay discounting (DD), or the preference for immediate rewards over delayed rewards, is associated with substance use disorder (SUD). Lower rates of DD predict better treatment outcomes, thus strategies that reduce DD may support SUD recovery. The process of vividly imagining a future event, known as episodic future thinking (EFT), may be a particularly viable approach to reduce DD. Some limited research has examined delivery of EFT in treatment settings, using verbal prompts that are typical of studies in non-treatment settings...