Separate stimulation of EEG alpha rhythm for emotional state and personality traits regulation

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-223
Author(s):  
Yuri G. Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Eeg Alpha ◽  
Stimulation Of

scholarly journals Alpha EEG Frontal Asymmetries during Audiovisual Perception in Cochlear Implant Users

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (06) ◽  
pp. 500-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Maglione ◽  
A. Scorpecci ◽  
P. Malerba ◽  
P. Marsella ◽  
S. Giannantonio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Normal Hearing ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
Audiovisual Perception ◽  
Audiovisual Stimuli ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Eeg Alpha ◽  
The One ◽  
Hearing Children

SummaryObjectives: The aim of the present study is to investigate the variations of the electroencephalographic (EEG) alpha rhythm in order to measure the appreciation of bilateral and unilateral young cochlear implant users during the observation of a musical cartoon. The cartoon has been modified for the generation of three experimental conditions: one with the original audio, another one with a distorted sound and, finally, a mute version.Methods: The EEG data have been recorded during the observation of the cartoons in the three experimental conditions. The frontal alpha EEG imbalance has been calculated as a measure of motivation and pleasantness to be compared across experimental populations and conditions.Results: The EEG frontal imbalance of the alpha rhythm showed significant variations during the perception of the different cartoons. In particular, the pattern of activation of normal-hearing children is very similar to the one elicited by the bilateral implanted patients. On the other hand, results related to the unilateral subjects do not present significant variations of the imbalance index across the three cartoons.Conclusion: The presented results suggest that the unilateral patients could not appreciate the difference in the audio format as well as bilaterally implanted and normal hearing subjects. The frontal alpha EEG imbalance is a useful tool to detect the differences in the appreciation of audiovisual stimuli in cochlear implant patients.

Correlation analysis of EEG alpha rhythm is related to golf putting performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 124-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Ji ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
T.Q. Zheng ◽  
C.C. Hua ◽  
N.N. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Golf Putting ◽  
Eeg Alpha

scholarly journals The Impact Of Psychological Characteristics On The Effectiveness Of Motivational Interviewing Based Psychological Counseling

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (15) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Raimonda Petroliene ◽  
Liuda Sinkariova ◽  
Dalia Karpovaite ◽  
Loreta Zajanckauskaite-Staskeviciene ◽  
Jurga Misiuniene ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Cardiac Rehabilitation ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Cardiac Patients ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Counseling ◽  
Counseling Intervention ◽  
Unhealthy Behavior

It is well known that in order to control the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular disease patients, their lifestyle should be taken into account (American Heart Association, 2012; Klumbiene et al., 2002). Studies of various disease patients’ manners (Knight et al., 2006; Thompson et al., 2011) confirm that motivational interviewing (Miller & Rollnick, 2013) is an effective method for changing unhealthy behavior. Nevertheless, our practical experience of motivational interviewing based psychological counseling with rehabilitation hospitals’ cardiac patients’ (Sinkariova et al., 2015) revealed noteworthy observations about some participants lack of motivation to change unhealthy behavior. This observation encouraged us to start a study with the aim to find out if cardiac rehabilitation participants’ personality traits and emotional state are related to the effectiveness of motivational interviewing based psychological counseling. The study used a quasi-experiment where cardiac rehabilitation patients were assigned to control (regular rehabilitation, n=55) or experimental (rehabilitation plus motivational interviewing based psychological counseling intervention, n=64) groups. A total of 119 participants (male=83, female=36, M age=60.47, SD=8.762) attended a survey, which included NEO-FFI, HADs, and “Readiness to change questionnaire” at the beginning and end of cardiac rehabilitation. Nonparametric data analysis showed that patients’ personality traits are not related to the effectiveness of motivational interviewing based counseling, whereas depression is positively related to the effectiveness of intervention to change alcohol consumption. Conclusions/Implications: Depression as an expression of emotional state is an important feature for the effectiveness of motivational interviewing based counseling to change cardiac patients’ alcohol consumption. Further understanding of relationships between psychological characteristics and the effectiveness of intervention could help to improve cardiac diseases prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation.

White matter architecture rather than cortical surface area correlates with the EEG alpha rhythm

NeuroImage ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 2328-2339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro A. Valdés-Hernández ◽  
Alejandro Ojeda-González ◽  
Eduardo Martínez-Montes ◽  
Agustín Lage-Castellanos ◽  
Trinidad Virués-Alba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
White Matter ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Cortical Surface ◽  
Cortical Surface Area ◽  
Eeg Alpha

A Stepped Forty-Eight Hour Manic-Depressive Cycle

1980 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Paschalis ◽  
A. Pavlou ◽  
A. Papadimitriou
Keyword(s):  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Switching Time ◽  
Lithium Treatment ◽  
Mood Change ◽  
Manic Depressive ◽  
Eeg Alpha

SummaryThis paper describes a patient with an almost 48-hour manic-depressive cycle but with a daily shift of the switching time, the latter having itself a cycle of five days. The mood change always occurred gradually and during the day, never at night. Between manic and depressive phases there was a difference in the frequency of the EEG alpha rhythm. The patient showed a good response to lithium treatment.

scholarly journals Spontaneous Slow Fluctuation of EEG Alpha Rhythm Reflects Activity in Deep-Brain Structures: A Simultaneous EEG-fMRI Study

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. e66869 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kei Omata ◽  
Takashi Hanakawa ◽  
Masako Morimoto ◽  
Manabu Honda
Keyword(s):  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
Brain Structures ◽  
Fmri Study ◽  
Eeg Alpha ◽  
Deep Brain

scholarly journals Empathy and Altruism

Psychology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric L. Stocks ◽  
Taylor Clark
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Protective Behaviors ◽  
Motivational State ◽  
Fruitful Research

The word empathy has been used as a label for many different phenomena, including feeling what another person is feeling, understanding another person’s point of view, and imagining oneself in another person’s situation. Perhaps the most widely researched phenomenon called “empathy” involves an other-oriented emotional state that is congruent with the perceived welfare of another person. Feelings associated with empathy include sympathy, tenderness, and warmth toward the other person. Other manifestations of empathic emotions have been investigated, too, including empathic joy, empathic embarrassment, and empathic anger. As was the case with empathy, the term altruism has also been used as a label for a broad range of phenomena, including any type of prosocial behavior, as a collection of personality traits associated with helpful persons, and biological influences that evoke protective behaviors toward genetically related others. A particularly fruitful research tradition has focused on altruism as a motivational state with the ultimate goal of protecting or promoting the welfare of a valued other. For example, the empathy–altruism hypothesis claims that empathy (viewed here as an other-oriented emotional state) evokes an altruistic motivational state. Empathy and altruism, regardless of how they are construed, have important consequences for understanding human behavior and social relationships.

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