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Social workers in a Qatari health setting: responding positively to ethical problems
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Social workers in health settings often face challenging ethical problems in their daily practice. These challenges may be internal in nature and in particular related to their personal and cultural beliefs. The aim of ... -
Development of executive functioning in school-age Tunisian children
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Research regarding executive functioning (EF) in children rarely focuses on populations in African or Middle-Eastern Arabic-speaking countries. The current study used a cross-sectional design to examine the developmental ... -
The effects of citizenship status on service utilization and general satisfaction with healthcare: a cross-cultural study
(2017 , Article)Objective: To explore the role of citizenship status as a predictor of general satisfaction with healthcare services in Qatar, including potential interaction with utilization and health insurance coverage type.Design: A ... -
On national flags and language tags: Effects of flag-language congruency in bilingual word recognition
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)French-English bilinguals performed a generalized lexical decision experiment with mixed lists of French and English words and pseudo-words. In Experiment 1, each word/pseudo-word was superimposed on the picture of the ... -
False Memory in Adults With ADHD: A Comparison Between Subtypes and Normal Controls
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2017 , Article)Objectives: To examine the performance on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott task of adults divided into ADHD subtypes and compares their performance to that of healthy controls to examine whether adults with ADHD are more ... -
Qatar as full island overnight: Psychological and social consequences of blockade as reflected in the social media
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)The GCC crisis in which Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain have closed land, sea and air borders going into and from Qatar imposed a host of psychosocial stressors on both Qatari and non-Qatari citizens. This ongoing crisis ... -
The Development of the Dementia Screening Battery-100: Instrument Presentation, Reliability, and Construct Validity
( S. Karger AG , 2017 , Article)Background/Aim: The screening of dementia in non-Westerners has so far relied on translations and adaptations of reputed instruments. Other efforts focused on developing culturally appropriate tests or tests in touch with ... -
Tweet sentiment analysis with pronoun choice reveals online community dynamics in response to crisis events
( Springer Verlag , 2017 , Conference Paper)We describe the emergence of an online community from naturally occurring social media data. Our method uses patterns of word choice in an online social platform to characterize how a community forms in response to adverse ... -
A disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease: Focus on the trans-sulfuration pathway
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)High homocysteine levels in Alzheimer's disease (AD) result from low activity of the trans-sulfuration pathway. Glutathione levels are also low in AD. L-cysteine is required for the synthesis of glutathione. The synthesis ... -
Perceptions of Women's Roles between Traditionalism and Modernity in Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Women's participation in public life in the Arabian Peninsula is affected by tradition and limits their opportunities for socio-economic development. This study focuses on the social structures that impose gender inequality. ... -
The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a classical reversal-learning paradigm, ... -
Coping styles and symptomatic manifestation of first-episode psychosis: Focus on cognitive performance
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits are widely observed in patients with psychosis and represent one of most important determinants of functional outcomes. It has been shown that patients with psychosis prefer maladaptive coping strategies ... -
Computational investigation of mechanistic insights of Aβ42 interactions against extracellular domain of nAChRα7 in Alzheimer's disease
( Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2019 , Article)Aim: Amyloid beta (Aβ) 1-42, which is a basic constituent of amyloid plaques, binds with extracellular transmembrane receptor nicotine acetylcholine receptor α7 (nAChRα7) in Alzheimer’s disease. Materials and Methods: ... -
Smell your memories: Positive effect of odor exposure on recent and remote autobiographical memories in Alzheimer's disease
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Introduction: There is a burgeoning interest in the effects of odor exposure on autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We pursued this line of research by assessing the effect of odor exposure on the retrieval ... -
Epigenetic mechanisms, trauma, and psychopathology: Targeting chromatin remodeling complexes
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)Environmental pressure affects the genotype throughout different epigenetic processes. There is currently ample evidence on the role of epigenetics in developing various mental disorders. A burden of environmental pressure, ... -
Cognitive Theory of Mind Influences Destination Memory: Evidence from Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease
( Oxford University Press , 2019 , Article)Objective: Theory of mind and destination memory are social abilities that require processing the attributes of interlocutors. Empirical research has demonstrated a relationship between performance on both abilities in ... -
The prevalence of ptsd and depression among Gaza children
( Gyandhara International Academic Publications , 2019 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of posttraumatic distress disorder (PTSD) and depression among children in Gaza, Palestine. Methodology: This study assessed the psychological effects of ... -
Corrigendum to " Adenosine role in brain functions: Pathophysiological influence on Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders "
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)The authors regret that the 3rd affiliation for author Ahmed A. Moustafa had been inadvertently omitted. The complete affiliations of the authors are presented above. The authors would like to apologize for any inconvenience ... -
Cross-country analysis of alternative five factor personality trait profiles
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)The aim of our study was to examine the typical personality profiles of the Alternative Five Factor Model with its new factor-facet version questionnaire (Zuckerman-Kuhlman-Aluja Personality Questionnaire, 2010) on a large, ... -
The Perception of Spontaneous and Volitional Laughter Across 21 Societies
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2018 , Article)Laughter is a nonverbal vocalization occurring in every known culture, ubiquitous across all forms of human social interaction. Here, we examined whether listeners around the world, irrespective of their own native language ...
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