Emotional and Cognitive Modulation of Cybersickness: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing and Body Awareness

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Maximilian Mittelstädt ◽  
Jan Wacker ◽  
Dirk Stelling
Keyword(s):  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Pain Processing ◽  
Linear Effect ◽  
Cognitive Modulation ◽  
Evaluative Processes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: The goal was to investigate the influence of the tendency to catastrophize somatic symptoms and body awareness on motion-related sickness. Background: Influences of emotional and cognitive-evaluative processes on the genesis of motion sickness or cybersickness have rarely been investigated. Brain imaging studies showed activation during cybersickness, resembling the pattern found for pain processing. Two aspects often investigated in this context are pain catastrophizing and body awareness. The present two studies investigated the relationship of motion-related sickness to two tendencies involved in pain processing: pain catastrophizing and body awareness. Method: In the first study, 115 participants reported their motion sickness history, pain catastrophizing, and body awareness. In the second study, 40 participants were exposed to a virtual reality and reported their experience of cybersickness as well as their pain catastrophizing and body awareness. Results: Pain catastrophizing was positively correlated to motion sickness history and cybersickness. Body awareness did not show a linear effect on motion sickness history or cybersickness. However, the interaction effect of pain catastrophizing and body awareness was significant in both studies. Conclusion: Pain catastrophizing seems to have a detrimental effect on cybersickness symptoms. Body awareness moderated the relationship in the sense that the combination of high pain catastrophizing and low body awareness lead to the highest sickness levels. Application: Affective and cognitive modulation of cybersickness symptoms should be considered when exposing risk groups to motion-related adverse stimuli.

Sustentabilidade, cultura, lazer e a ocupação dos espaços públicos nas Cidades MIL

2021 ◽  
pp. 151-162
Author(s):  
B. Machado Mazzetti ◽  
F. Chibás Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Body Awareness ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Body Practices ◽  
The Universe

This article seeks to reflect on the already existing and inseparable rela­ tionships between society, sustainability, culture and leisure, bringing to the core of the reflection the concept of MIL Cities (Media Information as a potential scenario for developing new urban, human, cul­ tural and technological. Initially, a review of the concept of leisure was made, addressing its foundational pillars and cultural contents, poste­ riorly the relationship between individual and quality of life in cities is explained, through body practices and body awareness, as well as through environmental practices and the promotion of an increasingly active and collective environmental awareness. The relationship of oc­ cupation, belonging and right to the city is also addressed and, precisely at this point, the potential for the use of new technologies by the private sector, public authorities and civil society in the construction and appli­ cation of possibilities that permeate the universe of MIL Cities.

Workplace Bullying: Prevalence and Risk Groups in a Pakistani Sample

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambreen Anjum ◽  
Aisha Shoukat
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Workplace Bullying ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Information Sheet ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of present study was to explore the prevalence of workplace bullying in a sample of Pakistani employees. In addition, this research also aimed to determine the relationship of various demographics of employees with their experiences of bullying in order to identify risk groups. The study was conducted on a sample of 450 employees of Punjab who showed their willingness to participate. Their age ranged from 22 to 60 years (M=34.14, SD=9.17). An indigenously developed “workplace bullying scale” with demographic information sheet was administered to collect the data. Results showed that78% of employees reported experiences of workplace bulling. The findings of present study indicated that female employees, unmarried and young age employees, employees working at lower grades, employees with a low level of education and workers with little work experience are particularly at greater risk for becoming targets of bullying.

Risk Stratification of Rhabdomyosarcoma: A Moving Target

2013 ◽  
pp. 415-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola A. S. Arndt
Keyword(s):  
Risk Stratification ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Lymph Node Involvement ◽  
Primary Site ◽  
Moving Target ◽  
Treatment Allocation ◽  
Initial Surgery ◽  
Node Involvement ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Known prognostic factors for rhabdomyosarcoma include primary site, stage, group (amount of tumor remaining after initial surgery before chemotherapy), lymph node involvement, age, and histology. These factors are taken into account when determining risk stratification for treatment allocation, with some differences between the European and U.S. approaches. The relationship of fusion status for PAX-3 of PAX-7 FOXO1 to outcome has been analyzed by a number of groups, but many of the studies are troubled by problems inherent in the use of convenience cohorts and the fact that patients in the analyzed groups are not always treated in a uniform fashion. One recent study analyzed outcome of patients treated in a similar fashion on the same protocol and found that patients with alveolar histology who were fusion negative had an outcome similar to those with embryonal histology. This article reviews many of the studies surrounding fusion status and outcome, risk stratification issues, and outcome of risk groups. The time is rapidly approaching in which fusion status will be used to allocate therapy for rhabdomyosarcoma.

scholarly journals Dispositional and situational personal features and acute post-collision head and neck pain: Double mediation of pain catastrophizing and pain sensitivity

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0262076
Author(s):  
Michal Granot ◽  
Einav Srulovici ◽  
Yelena Granovsky ◽  
David Yarnitsky ◽  
Pora Kuperman
Keyword(s):  
Neck Pain ◽  
Pain Intensity ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Acute Pain ◽  
Pain Sensitivity ◽  
Pain Catastrophizing ◽  
Pain Processing ◽  
Emotional Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sem Analyses

Pain variability can be partially attributed to psycho-cognitive features involved in its processing. However, accumulating research suggests that simple linear correlation between situational and dispositional factors may not be sufficiently explanatory, with some positing a role for mediating influences. In addition, acute pain processing studies generally focus on a post-operative model with less attention provided to post-traumatic injury. As such, this study aimed to investigate a more comprehensive pain processing model that included direct and indirect associations between acute pain intensity in the head and neck, pain catastrophizing (using pain catastrophizing scale (PCS)), and pain sensitivity (using the pain sensitivity questionnaire (PSQ)), among 239 patients with post-motor vehicle collision pain. The effect of personality traits (using Ten Items Personality Inventory (TIPI)) and emotional status (using Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)) on that model was examined as well. To this end, three Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) analyses were conducted. Overall, the data had good fit to all the models, with only PSQ found to have a direct correlation with acute pain intensity. The SEM analyses conversely revealed several mediations. Specifically, that: first, PSQ fully mediated the relationship between PCS and pain intensity; second, PCS and PSQ together fully mediated the relationship between conscientiousness (personality trait) and pain intensity; and finally, emotional status had direct and indirect links with PSQ and pain intensity. In conclusion, these models suggest that during the acute post-collision phase, pain sensitivity intermediates between emotional states and personality traits, partially via elevated pain catastrophizing thoughts.

scholarly journals Is Myelodysplasia a Consequence of Normal Aging?

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Heibl ◽  
Reinhard Stauder ◽  
Michael Pfeilstöcker
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
Stem Cell Niche ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Premature Aging ◽  
Cell Niche ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Purpose of Review To review available data on the relationship of MDS and aging and to address the question if biological changes of (premature) aging are a prerequisite for the development of MDS. Recent Findings Whereas the association of MDS with advanced age and some common biologic features of aging and MDS are well established, additional evidence for both, especially on the role of stem cells, the stem cell niche, and inflammation, has been recently described. Summary Biologically, many but not all drivers of aging also play a role in the development and propagation of MDS and vice versa. As a consequence, aging contributes to the development of MDS which can be seen as an interplay of clonal disease and normal and premature aging. The impact of aging may be different in specific MDS subtypes and risk groups.

Effectiveness of perphenazine and Systral against motion sickness

1959 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. Milch ◽  
Harold D. Frankl ◽  
A. A. Renzi
Keyword(s):  
High Activity ◽  
Motion Sickness ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Trigger Zone ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Perphenazine, a drug with high activity against apomorphine-induced vomiting in dogs, and Systral, an antiemetic analogue of benadryl with little or no activity against apomorphine-induced vomiting in dogs, were tested for antimotion sickness activity in human beings aboard aircraft. Neither furnished any protection. Further, dogs were swing-tested after the administration of chlorpromazine and perphenazine. In spite of the significant difference in protection against apomorphine-induced vomiting afforded by the two drugs (perphenazine much greater than chlorpromazine), perphenazine failed to protect against swing-induced vomiting and chlorpromazine furnished only 25% protection. These data emphasize the unreliability of extending the results of apomorphine inhibition to the relationship of the chemoceptive trigger zone to motion sickness. Submitted on September 12, 1958

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