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Childhood Parental Invalidation and Young Adult Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent behaviour that serves many functions, but is associated with increased distress, impairment, and risk of death by suicide (Andover, Morris, Wren, & Bruzzese, 2012; Burke, ... -
Concurrent measurement of genital lubrication and blood flow during sexual arousal
(Elsevier, 2019-07-01)Genital lubrication and blood flow are theoretically related outcomes of women’s sexual response that prepare the genitals for sexual activity. Despite its importance for sexual function, few experimental studies have ... -
The Role of Mode of Delivery in Postpartum Sexuality
This research program explored the role of mode of delivery in postpartum sexuality. The first study was an online survey of nulliparous individuals’ perceptions of how childbirth impacts sexuality (Chapter 2). The results ... -
The BEST Trials: Examining Brief Executive Skills Training for Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders
Cognitive remediation is an efficacious treatment for schizophrenia that focuses on enhancing neurocognitive abilities and improving community functioning. However, there is currently no gold-standard cognitive remediation ... -
Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Early Episode Psychosis
The mental abilities required to identify, understand, and respond to social information are broadly referred to as social cognition, and individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders display significant impairments ... -
Negative Feedback-Seeking in Depression: Examination of Maladaptive Schemas and Rumination as Cognitive Mechanisms, and the Prospective Prediction of Interpersonal Stressful Events
Coyne’s (1976) interpersonal theory of depression describes a process through which depressed individuals communicate with others such that aversive aspects of their interpersonal behaviour can exacerbate or maintain their ... -
Impact of various stimulus properties on fusional vergence range and heterophoria
Binocular fusion is our ability to combine the two separate retinal images into a single fused image, even if the images are separated by a certain amount of disparity. We hypothesized that lower spatial frequencies sampled ... -
Sleep Contributions to Hippocampal Gist Extraction
To better understand the world, humans scan the information contents of our experiences for patterns, corresponding to the extraction of gist, or essential meaning (Brainerd & Reyna, 1990). Research suggests that some forms ... -
What's odd? Cognitive processing of social contexts based on autistic traits within the general population
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by social and communicative deficits, such as being able to identify and understand a joke. These social deficits can be understood in a cognitive ... -
Mechanisms Contributing to the Specificity of Gynephilic Men’s Sexual Responses
Men’s sexual responses have historically been characterized by their gender specificity, meaning that men show stronger genital and subjective arousal to preferred (i.e., sexual stimuli that include one’s preferred gender) ... -
An ERP Investigation into the Influence of Spatial Relevance on Attentional Deployment
In visual search, top-down task knowledge and bottom-up stimulus salience interact to determine where observers are most likely to attend. Past research has demonstrated that during search tasks, scene regions with a high ... -
Life After Prostate Cancer: An Investigation of Patients' Health-Related Quality of Life, Sexual Outcomes, Mental Health, Social Support, and Healthcare Experiences
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canadian males. Survivorship rates, particularly for early-stage diagnoses, are high, meaning that the majority of diagnosed individuals must live with the consequences ... -
FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE SPINAL CORD/BRAINSTEM AND BRAIN IN WOMEN WITH PROVOKED VESTIBULODYNIA
Vulvodynia (i.e., idiopathic chronic pain affecting the vulva) is a common but poorly understood pain condition, affecting 16% of women in the general population and leading to negative impacts in many life domains, including ... -
A COGNITIVE-MOTIVATIONAL APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING GENDERED SEXUAL RESPONSE: THE ROLE OF ATTENTIONAL MECHANISMS
Sexual arousal involves changes in physiology, emotions, and cognitions, and is positively associated with sexual outcomes (e.g., sexual activity, sexual desire) and well-being (e.g., physical and mental health, overall ... -
Peer Victimization in the School Context: A Study of School Climate and Social Identity Processes
Schools provide adolescents with opportunities to form healthy relationships and feel a sense of belonging connected to others. Although youth are provided with opportunities to belong at school, some adolescents are ... -
A randomized controlled trial of Bikram yoga and aerobic exercise in the treatment of depression: Efficacy and underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms
Empirical interest in alternative treatment options for major depression has been on the rise, in part because of the shortcomings of conventional approaches. Despite a growing body of evidence supporting the use of various ... -
Examining the Role of Biopsychosocial Factors in Disability Among Individuals with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IBD is an inflammatory disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract, encompassing two conditions (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis). IBD negatively affects patients in a physical and psychosocial manner, which ... -
"Time is Money": Examining the Influence of Temporal Focus Across the Adult Lifespan
Seniors represent the fastest growing demographic in Canada. Internationally, it is projected that the world’s senior population will continue to increase over the next several decades. Thus, more research is needed in ... -
Effects of Reticular Activation on Long-Term Depression in Primary Visual Cortex of the Long-Evans Rat
Long-term depression (LTD) is a widely studied form of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, typically induced by prolonged low-frequency stimulation (LFS). LFS is highly effective in eliciting LTD in vitro, but several ... -
Self-Perception in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Recent research suggests that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are unaware of their competencies in a variety of domains and overestimate their competencies above what is normative in the general population. ...
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