UNT Wellness Initiative

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out, the Symposium on Well-Being. In this presentation, the author discusses the importance of quality of life to achieve happiness and wellness.
Date: March 24, 2011
Creator: Vosvick, Mark A. & Williamson, Celia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Current Behavioral and Psychosocial Interventions for HIV/AIDS

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on AIDS. This presentation discusses recent directions in psychosocial research on HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Vosvick, Mark A.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): What is it and what causes it?

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. The author has a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on innovative approaches to understanding and treating PTSD. In this presentation, the author discusses PTSD and other responses to trauma and stress.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Economic impact of ME/CFS: Individual and societal costs (open access)

The Economic impact of ME/CFS: Individual and societal costs

This article discusses the economic impact of Myalgic Encephalopathy and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by examining the direct and indirect costs to the individual and to society.
Date: April 8, 2008
Creator: Jason, Leonard A.; Benton, Mary C.; Valentine, Lisa M.; Johnson, Abra & Torres-Harding, Susan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Welcome Home: Reintegration of Veterans and Families

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home and discusses the reintegration of veterans and families. The author directs the Family Attachment Lab and is conducting the Student Veteran Research Project. In this presentation, she discusses the family relationships of veterans after deployment.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Riggs, Shelley A.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Caring for Yourself as a Caregiver

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. In this presentation, Bert Hayslip, Regents Professor in the Department of Psychology, will discuss caregiving for Alzheimer's and dementia patients.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Hayslip, Bert
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fear of Developing Dementia

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The presenter discusses his research into the fear of dementia.
Date: February 28, 2013
Creator: Page, Kyle S.; Hayslip, Bert & Wadsworth, Dee
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory and Coping with Stress: The Relationship Between Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness, Memory Valence, and Distress (open access)

Memory and Coping with Stress: The Relationship Between Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness, Memory Valence, and Distress

Article on memory and coping with stress and the relationship between cognitive-emotional distinctiveness, memory valence, and distress.
Date: June 17, 2008
Creator: Boals, Adriel; Rubin, David C. & Klein, Kitty
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
People who Expect to Enter Psychotherapy are Prone to Believing that They Have Forgotten Memories of Childhood Trauma and Abuse (open access)

People who Expect to Enter Psychotherapy are Prone to Believing that They Have Forgotten Memories of Childhood Trauma and Abuse

Article discussing people who expect to enter psychotherapy being prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse.
Date: July 8, 2010
Creator: Rubin, David C. & Boals, Adriel
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms (open access)

Memory in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms

Article on memory in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the properties of voluntary and involuntary, traumatic and non-traumatic autobiographical memories in people with and without PTSD symptoms.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Rubin, David C.; Boals, Adriel & Berntsen, Dorthe, 1962-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Autobiographical Memories for Very Negative Events: The Effects of Thinking about and Rating Memories (open access)

Autobiographical Memories for Very Negative Events: The Effects of Thinking about and Rating Memories

Article on autobiographical memories for very negative events and the effects of thinking about and rating memories.
Date: February 1, 2010
Creator: Rubin, David C.; Boals, Adriel & Klein, Kitty
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Integration of Emotions in Memories: Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (open access)

The Integration of Emotions in Memories: Cognitive-Emotional Distinctiveness and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Article on the integration of emotions in memories and cognitive-emotional distinctiveness and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Date: October 21, 2010
Creator: Boals, Adriel & Rubin, David C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The impact of GPX1 on the association of groundwater selenium and depression: a project FRONTIER study (open access)

The impact of GPX1 on the association of groundwater selenium and depression: a project FRONTIER study

Article on the impact of GPX1 on the association of groundwater selenium and depression.
Date: January 4, 2013
Creator: Johnson, Leigh A.; Phillips, Jack A.; Mauer, Cortney; Edwards, Melissa; Balldin, Valerie Hobson; Hall, James R. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Filtering for Brain-Computer Interaction Using Transfer Learning and Active Class Selection (open access)

Collaborative Filtering for Brain-Computer Interaction Using Transfer Learning and Active Class Selection

Article discussing collaborative filtering for brain-computer interaction using transfer learning and active class selection.
Date: February 21, 2013
Creator: Wu, Dongrui; Lance, Brent J. & Parsons, Thomas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women (open access)

Extension of the Behavioral Model of Healthcare Utilization with Ethnically Diverse, Low-Income Women

Article on the extension of the behavioral model of healthcare utilization with ethnically diverse, low-income women.
Date: February 2002
Creator: Keenan, Lisa A.; Marshall, Linda L. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview (open access)

Are Smoking Cessation Treatments Associated with Suicidality Risk? An Overview

This article explores the relationship between smoking cessation interventions and suicidality and explore common treatments, their associated risks, and effectiveness in promoting smoking reduction and abstinence.
Date: January 27, 2016
Creator: Penberthy, J. Kim; Penberthy, J. Morgan; Harris, Marcus R.; Nanda, Sonali; Ahn, Jennifer; Martinez, Caridad Ponce et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences (open access)

Virtual Reality for Enhanced Ecological Validity and Experimental Control in the Clinical, Affective and Social Neurosciences

This article highlights the potential of virtual reality environments for enhanced ecological validity in the clinical, affective, and social neurosciences.
Date: December 11, 2015
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population (open access)

The construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population

This article tests the four-factor model of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist - Revised empirical construct of psychopathy in a Chilean prison population by using instruments that supply different types of data.
Date: October 2, 2014
Creator: León Mayer, Elizabeth; Folino, Jorge O.; Neumann, Craig S. & Hare, Robert D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease (open access)

Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cognitive Impairment Among World Trade Center Responders: Long-Term Implications of Re-Experiencing the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (open access)

Cognitive Impairment Among World Trade Center Responders: Long-Term Implications of Re-Experiencing the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks

This article examines the association between World Trade Center (WTC)-related post-traumatic stress disorder and cognitive impairment in WTC responders.
Date: August 18, 2016
Creator: Clouston, Sean A.P.; Kotov, Roman; Pietrzak, Robert H.; Luft, Benjamin J.; Gonzalez, Adam; Richards, Marcus et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward (open access)

Inverted Social Reward: Associations between Psychopathic Traits and Self-Report and Experimental Measures of Social Reward

This article describes two studies of individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits. Study 1 explores what aspects of social reward are associated with psychopathic traits, and Study 2 administers these measures to a new group of participants along with two experimental tasks investigating monetary and social reward value.
Date: August 27, 2014
Creator: Foulkes, Lucy; McCrory, Eamon J.; Neumann, Craig S. & Viding, Essi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The assumption of a reliable instrument and other pitfalls to avoid when considering the reliability of data (open access)

The assumption of a reliable instrument and other pitfalls to avoid when considering the reliability of data

This article helps researchers avoid common pitfalls associated with reliability including incorrectly assuming that measurement error always attenuates observed score correlations, different sources of measurement error originate from the same source, and reliability is a function of instrumentation.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluating player task engagement and arousal using electroencephalography (open access)

Evaluating player task engagement and arousal using electroencephalography

This paper from the 6th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics and the Affiliated Conference, AHFE 2015 conference proceedings coordinate task engagement data with arousal-valence data for application to expressive transformations to video game play in real time by tuning different performance parameters in an Engagement-Arousal rule system.
Date: October 23, 2015
Creator: McMahan, Timothy; Parberry, Ian & Parsons, Thomas D.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Virtual Reality for Research in Social Neuroscience (open access)

Virtual Reality for Research in Social Neuroscience

This article discusses the potential of virtual reality for enhancing ecological validity while maintaining experimental control in social neuroscience research.
Date: April 16, 2017
Creator: Parsons, Thomas D.; Gaggioli, Andrea & Riva, Giuseppe
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library