Metaglossotherapy in Treatment of Schizophrenia

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
V. Maciulis ◽  
S. Marceniene ◽  
K. Dapsys ◽  
V. Banaitis ◽  
J. Utkuviene
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Evoked Potential ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
New Associations ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Emotional Isolation

Metaglossotherapy (MGT) is the method of treating schizophrenic patients by teaching them a new foreign language. Training of brain and establishing new associations during the course of MGT treatment has a positive influence on schizophrenic patients.Aim:To evaluate the efficacy of MGT in treating schizophrenic patients.Methods:7 long-stay male schizophrenic patients took part in the program, which lasted 5 months, 5 sessions of MGT a week. Patients were learning English. Evoked potential N400 was registered at baseline and after MGT in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the therapy. Dynamics of mental state was evaluated with help of PANSS.Results:During MGT significant changes in motivation, behavior, non-verbal expressions and emotional state of patients were observed. PANSS: negative and positive symptoms became milder, changes are statistically significant. N400 responses of schizophrenic patient do not depend on the congruity of sentence endings. Compared with healthy subjects patients generate N400 with smaller amplitude and larger latency.Conclusions:Application of MGT can create possibilities for schizophrenic patients for better relationships with the environment, to help them overcome social and emotional isolation. It is very important that activities would be led by the persons who have practical experience to work with schizophrenic patients. MGT may affect patient's response to semantic congruent sentences.

MODERN LINGUODIDACTICS AND MNEMONICS: FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING STUDENTS HOW TO MEMORIZE NEW VOCABULARY

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Tat’yana A. Markelova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Internet ◽  
English Classes ◽  
False Idea ◽  
Mnemonic Techniques

The paper deals with the search and application of effective methods of memorizing foreign language vocabulary, based on integrative and personal development approaches within the framework of modern linguodidactics. The Internet era, which maximally simplifies the process of searching for and translating foreign words, engender among students a false idea that there is no need to form special skills of memorizing foreign language vocabulary. In this regard, the development of new ways how to activate memory for educational purposes is of particular relevance, as well as the study of such mental processes of memory as memorizing, preserving, reproducing and forgetting. The author refers to some aspects of linguodidactics’ and mnemonics’ historical evolution, foreign and Russian experience of using mnemonic techniques in the process of studying and teaching foreign languages. Memorizing based on mnemonic encoding into images (when objects are linked with existing information in the memory) contributes to the process of mastering foreign language vocabulary, it becomes faster and easier, and it results in a long-term memorization of the material. In the paper, the author shares the practical experience of applying and teaching mnemonic techniques at English classes. The latter include phonetic associations, visual images, pictures, kinesthetic representations. In conclusion, the author makes an inference that it is advisable to teach students the technique of mnemonics as one of the effective ways to facilitate the process of memorizing new vocabulary.

Cognitive Function in Schizophrenia: Association with Negative and Positive Symptoms

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald A. Capleton
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Wisconsin Card Sort Test ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Word Fluency ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Card Sort ◽  
Word Generation ◽  
Perseverative Errors ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients

20 schizophrenic patients were classified as having either predominantly negative ( n = 11) or predominantly positive symptoms ( n = 9), utilizing the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms and the Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms. Cognitive functioning was evaluated in these participants and 10 non-patient controls using a word-fluency test and word-generation task. Finally, all participants were evaluated using the Coglab Card Sort Test, a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sort Test. The only reliable difference in performance among groups was on perseverative errors on the Coglab Card Sort Test Schizophrenic participants made significantly more perseverative errors than controls and those classified as having primarily negative symptoms made more perseverative errors than those classified as having predominantly positive symptoms. These findings confirm previous reports with respect to cognitive functioning of schizophrenic patients and are consistent with the hypotheses regarding frontal lobe dysfunction in schizophrenia. These data encourage research with larger samples.

scholarly journals Influences of Therapeutic Communication on Model of Structural Reflection on Parents of Patients Satisfaction

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Agostinha Soares ◽  
Kusnanto Kusnanto ◽  
Ninuk Dian Kurniawati
Keyword(s):  
Intervention Group ◽  
Parent Satisfaction ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Therapeutic Communication ◽  
Control Group Design ◽  
Reflection Model ◽  
Timor Leste

Background: Therapeutic communication with reflection is a process of learning from experience, recapturing practical experience and reflecting on it critically to gain new understanding, tends to involve individual practitioners to become self-aware of the situation. However, at the Hospital in Dili Timor Leste the nurse does not explain the procedure of giving medication to the patient's parents. Purpose: The general purpose of the study is to know the effect of therapeutic communication with the model of structural reflection on patient parent satisfaction Methods: In this study using a posttest-only control group design with a sample of 126 people in each group of 63 people Purposive sampling method. Intervention using the MSR module, for 3 consecutive days, on the third day the two groups conducted a post-test using a questionnaire on patient satisfaction, using Mann Whitney analysis. Results: The results of this study obtained a value of p = 0,000 which means that there is a significant influence between the control group in the perinatology room and the intervention group in the pediatric room on the satisfaction of patients' parents in the Pediatric Department of Hospital Dili Timor Leste Conclusion: Therapeutic communication with the structural reflection model (MSR) has a positive influence on the patient's parents at the Dili Timor Teste Hospital, the patient's parents are very satisfied with the communication made by the nurse, with therapeutic communication the nurse looks for the patient, supports, supports, questions, establishes a relationship of trust , the method required by this MSR needs to be applied in Hospital Dili Timor Leste

Life satisfaction and adolescent music making: A comparison of youth choirs and bands in Spain

2021 ◽  
pp. 102986492110214
Author(s):  
Salvador Oriola-Requena ◽  
Diego Calderón-Garrido ◽  
Josep Gustems
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Leadership Capacity ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Youth Music

Adolescents who are members of youth music groups learn music and develop other skills such as group work and conflict resolution. These skills and feelings may represent socioemotional factors underlying increased life satisfaction, leadership capacity, and academic motivation, together with the acquisition of emotional skills. The aim of the research was to determine the degree of life satisfaction reported by a sample of 660 Spanish adolescents who were members of a youth band or choir. It also aimed to examine correlations between life satisfaction, leadership capacity, academic motivation, and emotional development. Potential differences between these variables attributable to participants’ age, gender, type of youth music group, and musical instrument played were explored using a cross-sectional survey comprising four standardized questionnaires. The results show that the participants were highly satisfied with their lives. There were strong positive correlations between the variables studied but also some significant differences between the two groups (choirs and bands), and between players of different instrument families. These results are in line with those other studies, confirming the positive influence of group music making on adolescents’ social and emotional growth.

SOME FEATURES OF TEACHING SPANISH AS A SECOND AND SUBSEQUENT FOREIGN LANGUAGE TO THE LEARNERS OF ENGLISH

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Y.V. Maslova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Native English Speakers ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Further Training ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Initial Perception

The article considers teaching the Spanish language as a second foreign language to those students who already speak English as their first foreign language. The relevance of the work lies in the fact that at present new techniques of teaching students who speak two or more foreign languages should be reconsidered. It is also necessary to actively use the skills, knowledge and abilities that have already been developed while learning the first foreign language. The aim of the work is to identify the necessary techniques that can make teaching Spanish as a second foreign language to students studying English as their first foreign language more effective. The article compares English and Spanish in order to determine the factors contributing to a positive transference when learning Spanish as a second language, as well as those that complicate this process. Based on the analysis, a number of exercises are presented, which include those for initial perception, formation of speech skills and habits, development of the same and further training, which takes into account the factor of positive influence of the first foreign language and addresses the negative ones. The exercises presented include comparing and contrasting the two languages. The observation carried out while teaching two groups of students showed that taking into consideration the mutual influence of the two foreign languages, as well as including teaching materials for native English speakers in the learning process, increases students’ interest in the language and culture, and allows one to facilitate the process of learning Spanish.

Rozvoj řečové dovednosti mluvení s využitím asynchronních ICT nástrojů: přehledová studie

2019 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Terezie Nerušilová
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Online Environment ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Ict Tools

This review aims to map the research connected with the use of ICT tools for the development of speaking skill in foreign language learning. It is based on nine international studies showing in which ways the asynchronous online environment can be used for the development of the speaking skill, emphasising the positive influence of ICT on students’ motivation, and some of them pointing out the importance of feedback.

The Effects of Technology Integration in the Classroom for Students With ADHD

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Aleen Kojayan ◽  
Aubrey L. C. Statti ◽  
Kelly M. Torres
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
General Education ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Social Growth ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
General Education Classroom ◽  
Students With Adhd ◽  
Development Of Students

This qualitative case study investigated the influence of technology integration in a special education classroom for students who have ADHD. Technology has shown to have a positive influence on student academic, social, and emotional growth in a general education classroom. This study sought to understand the influence technology has for students struggling with ADHD. This study aimed to understand if technology can play a role in the development of students with ADHD specifically in the domains of academic and social growth. Through observations, interviews, and focus group sessions, six themes were deduced: importance of consistency in using technology, impact of group size, increased interest, increased independence, task initiation/time efficiency using Chromebook, and overall confidence academically and socially.

Negative Symptoms at Discharge and Outcome in Schizophrenia

1995 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai-Gwo Hwu ◽  
Happy Tan ◽  
Chu-Chang Chen ◽  
Ling-Ling Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Social Functioning ◽  
Symptom Score ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Positive Symptom ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
Symptom Scores ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Positive And Negative Symptoms

BackgroundThe clinical significance in schizophrenia of positive and negative symptoms at discharge was assessed.MethodOf schizophrenic patients fulfilling DSM–III criteria, 113 were recruited for this study. Personal, social and psychopathological data were collected and all cases were followed up at one and two years after discharge.ResultsThe presence of positive symptoms (64 cases), without concomitant negative symptoms, did not predict the follow-up social function and positive symptom score. Conversely, the presence of negative symptoms (31 cases) predicted worse social functioning (P < 0.05 to P < 0.005) and higher positive symptom scores (P < 0.01) at follow-up using MANOVA. Eighteen cases (15.9%) had neither positive nor negative symptoms and had the best clinical outcome.ConclusionsNegative, but not positive, symptoms assessed at discharge are an important predictor of poor outcome. In addition, negative symptoms may themselves expose a biological vulnerability to the presence of positive symptoms.

New dopaminergic and non-dopaminergic theories in schizophrenia and their therapeutic impact

1997 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
R.S. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Dopamine Neurons ◽  
Psychotic Symptoms ◽  
Positive Symptoms ◽  
The Core ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Core Symptoms ◽  
Influential Theory

The dopamine (DA) hypothesis of schizophrenia, postulating that schizophrenia is characterized by increased dopamine function, has been the most influential theory on the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. It has recently been revised based on the appreciation that the core symptoms of schizophrenia may not be the positive (psychotic) symptoms, but rather the negative symptoms and the cognitive deficits found in schizophrenic patients. This revision has prompted the hypothesis that schizophrenia is characterized by both decreased prefrontal dopamine activity (causing deficit symptoms) and increased dopamine activity in mesolimbic dopamine neurons (causing positive symptoms).Notwithstanding this revision of a role for dopamine in schizophrenia, it has become increasingly evident that dysfunction of other monoaminergic systems may be as important in contributing to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Specifically, the putative role of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) in schizophrenia is gaining considerable attention. Several observations, such as the ability of the 5-HT antagonist, ritanserin, to alleviate schizophrenic symptoms and, when added to haloperidol (Haldol®), to decrease its extrapyramidal side-effects (EPS), have stimulated studies into a role of 5-HT in schizophrenia. The finding that clozapine (Leponex®), clinically superior to conventional neuroleptics, is a weak DA2 antagonist but a potent 5-HT1c and 5-HT2 antagonist has further stimulated 5-HT-related research in schizophrenia.

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