807 resultados para Emotion, emotion expression, emotion regulation, affect intensity, clarity, self-monitoring, ambivalence, acting, deception
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The alarmone (p)ppGpp regulates transcription, translation, replication, virulence, lipid synthesis, antibiotic sensitivity, biofilm formation, and other functions in bacteria. Signaling nucleotide cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) regulates biofilm formation, motility, virulence, the cell cycle, and other functions. In Mycobacterium smegmatis, both (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP are synthesized and degraded by bifunctional proteins Rel(Msm) and DcpA, encoded by rel(Msm) and dcpA genes, respectively. We have previously shown that the Delta rel(Msm) and Delta dcpA knockout strains are antibiotic resistant and defective in biofilm formation, show altered cell surface properties, and have reduced levels of glycopeptidolipids and polar lipids in their cell wall (K. R. Gupta, S. Kasetty, and D. Chatterji, Appl Environ Microbiol 81:2571-2578, 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.03999-14). In this work, we have explored the phenotypes that are affected by both (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP in mycobacteria. We have shown that both (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP are needed to maintain the proper growth rate under stress conditions such as carbon deprivation and cold shock. Scanning electron microscopy showed that low levels of these second messengers result in elongated cells, while high levels reduce the cell length and embed the cells in a biofilm-like matrix. Fluorescence microscopy revealed that the elongated Delta rel(Msm) and Delta dcpA cells are multinucleate, while transmission electron microscopy showed that the elongated cells are multiseptate. Gene expression analysis also showed that genes belonging to functional categories such as virulence, detoxification, lipid metabolism, and cell-wall-related processes were differentially expressed. Our results suggests that both (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP affect some common phenotypes in M. smegmatis, thus raising a possibility of cross talk between these two second messengers in mycobacteria. IMPORTANCE Our work has expanded the horizon of (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP signaling in Gram-positive bacteria. We have come across a novel observation that M. smegmatis needs (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP for cold tolerance. We had previously shown that the Delta rel(Msm) and Delta dcpA strains are defective in biofilm formation. In this work, the overproduction of (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP encased M. smegmatis in a biofilm-like matrix, which shows that both (p) ppGpp and c-di-GMP are needed for biofilm formation. The regulation of cell length and cell division by (p) ppGpp was known in mycobacteria, but our work shows that c-di-GMP also affects the cell size and cell division in mycobacteria. This is perhaps the first report of c-di-GMP regulating cell division in mycobacteria.
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Os Transtornos Alimentares (TA) são caracterizados por graves perturbações no comportamento alimentar, geralmente de início precoce e curso duradouro. Vários fatores estão associados a sua etiologia, como fatores familiares, socioculturais, biológicos e psicológicos. Alguns autores demonstraram existir correlação entre gravidade nos comportamentos alimentares inadequados, baixos níveis de assertividade, altos níveis de hostilidade autodirigida e dificuldade em expressar a raiva. Além disso, a raiva tem sido relacionada principalmente aos episódios de compulsão alimentar e métodos compensatórios. A literatura, já há algum tempo reconhece o papel central do afeto negativo na etiologia e manutenção da compulsão alimentar. A teoria da regulação do afeto pressupõe que os episódios de compulsão alimentar estão associados a uma dificuldade para regular as emoções de forma adaptada, configurando-os como uma estratégia inadequada para aliviar sofrimento e reduzir afetos intensos. Pesquisadores indicam que um terço das mulheres com compulsão alimentar, comem em resposta a emoções negativas, mais especificamente a raiva, depressão e ansiedade. A compulsão alimentar teria como função regular a experiência emocional, reduzindo a consciência da emoção. A raiva também tem sido associada a déficits em habilidades sociais. A literatura sugere que os indivíduos socialmente habilidosos são mais propensos a manejar com a emoção da raiva do que aqueles com déficits em habilidades sociais e resolução de problemas, e que muitos dos tratamentos efetivos para raiva e comportamento agressivo incluem o desenvolvimento dessas habilidades. Assim como elevados níveis de raiva estão associados a comportamentos alimentares disfuncionais, evidências apontam para a relação entre déficits em habilidades sociais e gravidade do comportamento alimentar. A literatura mostra que no tratamento da raiva, o treinamento de habilidades sociais tem sido bastante efetivo. Dessa forma, identificar de que forma a raiva se relaciona ao comportamento alimentar inadequado , bem como aos déficits em habilidades sociais se torna relevante para a criação de programas de intervenção que tenham como objetivo ensinar o indivíduo a manejar com a raiva e frustração, aumentando assim, a capacidade de resolução de problemas e diminuindo a ocorrência de comportamentos alimentares inadequados. Portanto, o objetivo desse estudo é avaliar as relações entre habilidades sociais e a raiva em pacientes com Bulimia Nervosa e Transtorno da Compulsão Alimentar Periódica. Em função das críticas ao uso de questionários de auto-informe em pesquisas, essa tese foi dividida em três estudos. O primeiro foi uma revisão sistemática da literatura que teve como propósito avaliar as relações entre níveis disfuncionais de raiva e compulsão alimentar em pacientes com bulimia nervosa e TCAP. O segundo estudo avaliou as relações entre níveis de habilidades sociais, raiva disfuncional e gravidade da compulsão alimentar em amostra clínica, através de questionários de autorrelato. E por fim, o terceiro estudo teve como objetivo identificar pensamentos automáticos e comportamentos associados a emoção da raiva através de entrevista estruturada, composta por cinco questões abertas. Os resultados de cada estudo serão discutidos, assim como sua implicação no tratamento dos TA
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There are a lot of differences in the neural mechanisms underlying between drug reward and natural reward despite the common neual basis. Undoubtedly, revealing the common and the different mechanisms underlying drug reward and natural reward will promote the development of research on drug addiction. Among diversified natural rewards, sex is often compared to drug because sexual reward has more similarities to drug. The mesolimbic dopamine system (VTA-NAc pathway) is a common pathway activated by natural reinforcers and addictive drugs, mediating reward, emotion and motivation under physiological conditions. The neuroadaptations taking place in the central nervous system including the mesolimbic dopamine system after repeatedly drug taking leads to persistent drug craving, Orexin, a neuropeptide produced in the lateral hypothalamus, plays an important role in reward-associated, motivated behaviors. Orexin neurons have extensive projections to the mesolimbic dopamine system. In order to further investigate the roles of orexin A in drug reward, this study examined the regulatory roles of orexin A in the VTA and NAcSh on drug reinforcement (acqusition of morphine CPP) and drug-seeking behavior (expression of morphine CPP). Moreover, the roles of orexin A on drug reward were compared with sexual reward. The main results are as follows: 1. The expression of morphine CPP was inhibited by intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.) administered OX1R antagonist SB334867; 2. The male unconditioned sexual motivation was not affected by i.c.v. administered SB334867. However, i.c.v. given orexin A inhibited unconditioned sexual motivation in sexually high-motivated rats but did not affect sexual motivation in low-motivated rats; 3. The acquisition and expression of morphine CPP was inhibited by SB334867 microinjected into the VTA. SB334867 or orexin A injected into the NAcSh did not influence the acquisition of morphine CPP, but orexin A increased the locomotor activity in rats treated with morphine (3mg/kg); 4. SB334867 microinjected into the VTA did not affect male copulatory behavior, neither affect the acqusition of copulatory CPP; 5. The expression of copulatory CPP was associated with increased Fos protein expression in hypothalamic orexin A neurons, and SB334867 microinjected into the VTA inhibited expression of copulatory CPP. These results suggest that, (1) endogenous orexin A is not involved in male unconditioned sexual motivation, but involved in drug craving; (2) orexin A in the VTA instead of in the NAc is involved in drug reinforcement; (3) orexin A in the VTA is critical for drug-seeking behavior, but it is still unclear for the role of orexin A in the NAcSh; (4) in contrast to drug reinforcement, orexin A in the VTA is not involved in reinforcing effect of sexual reward. Orexin A plays a role both in drug-seeking behavior and in sexual reward-seeking behavior, but the different orexin A neuron populations may be responsible for the roles of orexin A in two types of reward. In a word, the differential roles of orexin A in drug and sexual reward are found in the present study, which provides some evidence for further research on the mechanisms of drug addiction.
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Although studies on placebo effect proved the placebo expectation established by pain-alleviating treatment could significantly alleviate later pain perception, or the placebo expectation established by anxiety-reducing treatment could significantly reduce the intensity of induced negative feelings, it is still unclear whether or not the placebo effect can occur in a transferable manner. That is, we still don’t know if the placebo expectation derived from pain-alleviating can significantly reduce later negative emotional arousal or not. Experiment 1: We compared the effect of the verbal expectation (purely verbal induction and without pain-alleviating reinforcement) with the reinforced expectation (building the belief in the placebo’s ataractic efficiency on unpleasant picture processing by secret reduction of the intensity of the pain-evoking stimulus) on the negative emotion. The results showed that the expectation, which was reinforced by actual analgesia, was transferable and could produce significant placebo effect on negative emotional arousal. However, the expectation that was merely induced by verbal instruction did not have such power. Experiment 2 both examined the direct analgesic effect of the placebo on the sensory pain (how strong is the pain stimulus) and emotional pain (how disturbing is the pain stimulus) and the transferable ataractic effect of the placebo on the negative emotion (how disturbing is the emotional picture stimulus), and further proved that the placebo expectation that was established from pain-reducing reinforcement not only induced significant placebo effect on pain, but also significant placebo effect on unpleasant feeling. These results support the viewpoint that the reduction of affective pain based on the conditioning mechanism plays an important role in the placebo analgesia, but can’t explain the transferred placebo effect on visual unpleasantness. Experiment 3 continued to use the paradigm of the reinforced expectation group and recorded the EEG activities, the data showed that the transferable placebo treatment was accompanied with decreased P2 amplitude and increased N2 distributed, and significant differences between the transferable placebo condition and the control condition (i.e., P2 and N2) were observed within the first 150-300 ms, a duration brief enough to rule out the possibility that differences between the two conditions merely reflect a bias “to try to please the investigator. In Experiment 4, we selected the placebo responders in the pre-experiment and let them to go through the formal fMRI scan. The results found that the transferable placebo treatment reduced the negative emotional response, emotion-responsive regions such as the amygdala, insula, anterior cingulate cortex and the thalamus showed an attenuated activation. And in the placebo condition, there was an enhanced activation in the subcollosal gyrus, which may be involved in emotional regulation. In conclusion, the transferable placebo treatment induced the reliable placebo effect on the behavior, EEG activity and bold signal, and we attempted to discuss the pychophysiological mechanism based on the positive expectancy.
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To investigate the neural systems that contribute to the formation of complex, self-relevant emotional memories, dedicated fans of rival college basketball teams watched a competitive game while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During a subsequent recognition memory task, participants were shown video clips depicting plays of the game, stemming either from previously-viewed game segments (targets) or from non-viewed portions of the same game (foils). After an old-new judgment, participants provided emotional valence and intensity ratings of the clips. A data driven approach was first used to decompose the fMRI signal acquired during free viewing of the game into spatially independent components. Correlations were then calculated between the identified components and post-scanning emotion ratings for successfully encoded targets. Two components were correlated with intensity ratings, including temporal lobe regions implicated in memory and emotional functions, such as the hippocampus and amygdala, as well as a midline fronto-cingulo-parietal network implicated in social cognition and self-relevant processing. These data were supported by a general linear model analysis, which revealed additional valence effects in fronto-striatal-insular regions when plays were divided into positive and negative events according to the fan's perspective. Overall, these findings contribute to our understanding of how emotional factors impact distributed neural systems to successfully encode dynamic, personally-relevant event sequences.
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College students generated autobiographical memories from distinct emotional categories that varied in valence (positive vs. negative) and intensity (high vs. low). They then rated various perceptual, cognitive, and emotional properties for each memory. The distribution of these emotional memories favored a vector model over a circumplex model. For memories of all specific emotions, intensity accounted for significantly more variance in autobiographical memory characteristics than did valence or age of the memory. In two additional experiments, we examined multiple memories of emotions of high intensity and positive or negative valence and of positive valence and high or low intensity. Intensity was a more consistent predictor of autobiographical memory properties than was valence or the age of the memory in these experiments as well. The general effects of emotion on autobiographical memory properties are due primarily to intensity differences in emotional experience, not to benefits or detriments associated with a specific valence.
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Background: Studies of cross-cultural variations in the perception of emotion have typically compared rates of recognition of static posed stimulus photographs. That research has provided evidence for universality in the recognition of a range of emotions but also for some systematic cross-cultural variation in the interpretation of emotional expression. However, questions remain about how widely such findings can be generalised to real life emotional situations. The present study provides the first evidence that the previously reported interplay between universal and cultural influences extends to ratings of natural, dynamic emotional stimuli.
Methodology/Principal Findings: Participants from Northern Ireland, Serbia, Guatemala and Peru used a computer based tool to continuously rate the strength of positive and negative emotion being displayed in twelve short video sequences by people from the United Kingdom engaged in emotional conversations. Generalized additive mixed models were developed to assess the differences in perception of emotion between countries and sexes. Our results indicate that the temporal pattern of ratings is similar across cultures for a range of emotions and social contexts. However, there are systematic differences in intensity ratings between the countries, with participants from Northern Ireland making the most extreme ratings in the majority of the clips.
Conclusions/Significance: The results indicate that there is strong agreement across cultures in the valence and patterns of ratings of natural emotional situations but that participants from different cultures show systematic variation in the intensity with which they rate emotion. Results are discussed in terms of both ‘in-group advantage’ and ‘display rules’ approaches. This study indicates that examples of natural spontaneous emotional behaviour can be used to study cross-cultural variations in the perception of emotion.
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Introduction:
Ovarian cancer patients presenting with advanced stage (III/IV)
canceraretreatedwithcarboplatinumincombinationwithpaclitaxel.Despitea
significant initial response rate, fewer than 20% of patients become long-term
survivors. We have published that low MAD2 expression levels associate with
reduced progression free survival (PFS) in patients with high-grade serous
epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Moreover, we have demonstrated that MAD2
expressionisdown-regulatedbythemicroRNAmiR-433(
Furlong et al., 2011
).
Interestingly, miR-433 also down-regulates HDAC6 (
Simon et al., 2010
), which
uniquely deacetylates
a
-tubulin prior to HDAC6s binding to
b
-tubulin.
In vitro
studies have shown that HDAC6 inhibition in combination with paclitaxel
treatment enhances chemoresistant cancer cell death. To date, an interaction
between MAD2 and HDAC6 has not been reported.
Experimental design:
MAD2 and HDAC6 immunohistochemistry (IHC) and
Western blot analyses were performed to investigate the role of HDAC6 and
MAD2 in chemoresistance to paclitaxel in high-grade serous EOC.
Results and Discussion:
In vitro
experiments demonstrated that overex-
pression of pre-miR-433, which targets MAD2, resulted in down-regulation
of HDAC6 in EOC cell lines. High levels of HDAC6 are co-expressed with
MAD2 in the paclitaxel resistant UPN251 and OVCAR7 cell lines. While, all
4 paclitaxel resistant EOC cell lines express higher levels of miR-433 than
the paclitaxel sensitive A2780 cells, only ovca432 and ovca433 demonstrated
down-regulation of both HDAC6 and MAD2. Paclitaxel binds to
b
-tubulin and
causesmicrotubulepolymerizationinpaclitaxelsensitivecellsasdemonstrated
by tubulin acetylation in A2780 cells. However, paclitaxel failed to cause a
significant acetylation of
a
-tubulin and microtubule stabilisation in the resistant
UPN251 cells. Therefore resistance in this cell line may be mediated by
aberrantly high HDAC6 activity. We have previously shown that MAD2 knock-
down cells are resistant to paclitaxel (
Furlong F., et al., 2011; Prencipe M.,
et al., 2009
). We measured HDAC6 protein expression in MAD2 knockdown
cells and showed that MAD2 knockdown is associated with concomitant
up-regulation of HDAC6. We hypothesise that the up-regulation of HDAC6
by MAD2 knockdown renders cancer cells more resistant to paclitaxel and
increases the invasive potential of these cells. On-going experiments will test
this hypothesis. Lastly we have observed differential MAD2 and HDAC6 IHC
staining intensity in formalin fixed paraffin embedded EOC samples.
In conclusion
, we have reported on a novel interaction between MAD2 and
HDAC6 which may have important consequences for paclitaxel resistant EOC.
Moreover, understanding chemo-responsiveness in ovarian tumours will lead
to improved patient management and treatment options for women diagnosed
with this disease
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Q-methodology permitted 41 people to communicate their perspective of grief. In an attempt to clarify the research to date and to allow those who have experienced this human journey to direct the scientists, 80 statements were chosen to present to the participants based on the research from academic and counselling sources. Five different perspectives emerged from the Q-sorts and factor analysis. Each perspective was valuable for the understanding of different groups of mourners. They were interpreted using questionnaire data and interview information. They are as follows: Factor 1- Growth Optimism; Factor 2 - Schema Destruction and Negative Affect; Factor 3- Identification with the Deceased Person; Factor 4- Intact World view with High Clarity and High Social Support; Factor 5- Schema Destruction with High Preoccupation and Attention to Emotion. Some people grow in the face of grief, others hold on to essentially the same schemas and others are devastated by their loss. The different perspectives reported herein supply clues to the sources of these differing outcomes. From examination of Factor 1, it appears that a healthy living relationship helps substantially in the event of loss. An orientation toward emotions that encourages clarity, exemplified by Factor 4, without hyper-vigilance to emotion may be helpful as well. Strategies for maintaining schematic representations of the world with little alteration include: identification with the values of the deceased person, as in Factor 3 and reliance on social support and/or God as demonstrated by Factor 4. When the relationship had painful periods, social support may be accessed to benefit some mourners. When the person's frame of reference or higher order schemas are assaulted by the events of loss, the people most at risk for traumatic grief seem to be those with difficult relationships as indicated by Factor 5 individuals. When low social support, high attention to emotion with low clarity and little belief that feelings can be altered for the better are also attributes of the mourner devastating grief can result. In the end, there are groups of people who are forced to endure the entire process of schema destruction and devastation. Some appear to recover in part and others appear to stay in a form of purgatory for many years. The results of this study suggest that, those who experience devastating grief may be in the minority. In the future interventions could be more specifically addressed if these perspectives are replicated in a larger, more detailed study.
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La présente étude porte sur les aspects Nature-Culture relatifs à l’émergence de variations interindividuelles quant à la capacité universelle de régulation d’une émotion primaire, la tristesse. Cette problématique représente un exemple du lien entre la conception évolutionniste d’une nature humaine universelle, innée et génétiquement prescrite, mais susceptible de variation dans son expression en fonction d’expériences individuelles liées aux processus de socialisation et d’enculturation. À l’aide du devis génétiquement informatif des jumeaux, nous nous sommes d’abord penchés sur l’étiologie gènes-environnement de la dépression à l’enfance, une dysfonction du système de régulation émotionnelle de la tristesse. Puis, nous nous sommes interrogés quant à l’influence du traitement et de l’état psychique maternels sur cet aspect du développement émotionnel de l’enfant. Nos analyses de la symptomatologie dépressive indiquent une absence d’influence génétique dans le développement de ce trouble de l’humeur. Les variations individuelles de la régulation de la tristesse reposent ainsi uniquement sur les effets de l’environnement. Nos résultats révèlent également l’existence d’une relation importante entre l’état psychique de la mère, évalué lorsque les jumeaux avaient cinq mois, et la présence de symptômes dépressifs chez ces derniers mesurés huit ans plus tard. L’état psychique de la mère est considéré comme l’un des meilleurs indicateurs de la qualité du traitement maternel en bas âge. Nos mesures directes des comportements maternels envers le nourrisson et le développement ultérieur du trouble de dépression indiquent également l’existence de tendances statistiques allant dans le sens de notre hypothèse d’un traitement maternel sous-optimal contribuant au développement de dysfonctions émotionnelles ultérieures.
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La représentation que se font les patients souffrant d’un trouble de personnalité limite (TPL) de leur expérience de tristesse est un domaine de recherche important tant pour la conceptualisation du trouble que pour son traitement. Ces patients sont connus pour vivre une grande détresse qui se manifeste à travers divers symptômes (Bland, Williams, Scharer, & Manning, 2004). Un nombre élevé de patients présentant un TPL se suicident (Paris, 2002), font au moins une tentative de suicide au cours de leur vie (Oldham, 2006) et s’automutilent (p.ex., Brown, Williams, & Collins, 2007). La recherche sur la souffrance du TPL s’entend sur un paradoxe : ces patients souffrent beaucoup, mais ils vivent peu de tristesse. Leur souffrance prend une forme distincte en qualité, celle-ci demandant à être davantage étudiée empiriquement et théoriquement. L’objectif de cette thèse est d’explorer la représentation de la tristesse de participants souffrant d’un TPL. Alors qu’à notre connaissance aucune étude n’a encore poursuivi cet objectif spécifique, différentes pistes de réflexion ont été soulevées dans la documentation scientifique pour expliquer la nature de la souffrance du TPL en ce qui a trait au tempérament, au fonctionnement mental, à la dépression, à l’organisation de la personnalité et aux événements traumatiques. La première étude de cette thèse vise à réfléchir théoriquement et cliniquement à la tristesse, afin d’en raffiner la définition, entre autres par opposition à la détresse. Elle propose une distinction tant au plan métapsychologique que phénoménologique de ces deux expériences, en se basant sur des théories évolutionnistes des émotions et sur différentes conceptions psychanalytiques du fonctionnement mental et des relations objectales. Une vignette clinique illustre cette réflexion. La seconde étude vise à explorer, par une démarche qualitative, les principaux thèmes abordés par des participants souffrant d’un TPL lorsqu’ils racontent des épisodes de tristesse. Sept participants avec un diagnostic de TPL évalué à l’aide du SCID-II (First, Gibbon, Spitzer, & Williams, 1997) ont participé à une entrevue semi-dirigée visant le rappel de deux épisodes relationnels de tristesse. Suivant la méthode d’analyse phénoménologique interprétative (Smith, 1996), une analyse thématique de quatorze épisodes de tristesse a été effectuée conjointement par deux candidates au doctorat pour décrire la représentation de la tristesse de ces participants. Cinq thèmes ont été identifiés : 1) agression, 2) relation brisée par l’autre, 3) affectivité négative indifférenciée, 4) soi défectueux et 5) débordement. Les résultats suggèrent que la représentation de la tristesse du TPL n’est pas associée à la perte, mais plutôt à l’impression d’avoir été endommagé par une attaque infligée par quelqu’un d’autre. Il s’agit d’une expérience peu mentalisée que l’individu semble tenter de réguler dans la sphère interpersonnelle. Cette expérience ne représenterait pas de la tristesse à proprement parler. Les conclusions ont permis d’élaborer une nouvelle hypothèse de recherche : l’expérience de tristesse des patients souffrant d’un TPL ne correspond pas à la tristesse proprement dite, mais à une forme de détresse interpersonnelle impliquant à la fois des déficits du fonctionnement mental et une organisation particulière de la personnalité. Les implications cliniques et théoriques sont discutées.
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L’état d’attention sans réflexion, aussi appelé « mindfulness », a démontré des effets positifs en clinique pour les désordres émotionnels associés à diverses conditions. Le nombre d’études portant sur la caractérisation des substrats neuronaux de cet état attentionnel croît, mais il importe d’investiguer davantage à ce chapitre pour éventuellement améliorer les interventions cliniques. La présente étude compte aider à déterminer, par la magnétoencéphalographie, quelles régions cérébrales sont en corrélation avec le mindfulness chez des experts, i.e. des méditants Zen. Ces derniers cultivent un état dans lequel ils s’abstiennent de rechercher ou de rejeter les phénomènes sensoriels, ce qui en fait d’excellents candidats à la présente étude. Dans un contexte de stimulations visuelles émotionnelles, il fut demandé aux méditants tantôt d’observer les images dans un état de mindfulness (condition expérimentale), tantôt dans un état dit normal (condition contrôle) où aucun effort particulier d’attention n’était requis. Les résultats d’analyse suggèrent que les participants expérimentèrent une intensité émotionnelle moins importante en mindfulness : les cotes subjectives ainsi qu’une réponse magnétique cérébrale reliée aux émotions nommée Potentiel Positif Tardif magnétique (PPTm) suggèrent cela. Cependant, le résultat le plus statistiquement probant dépasse la nature affective des stimuli. Il s’agit d’une diminution temporellement soutenue de l’activité de fréquence gamma au niveau des zones visuelles associatives du lobe temporal droit, sans égard à la nature des images. Également, une suppression de l’activité gamma d’une zone du cortex préfrontal latéral gauche fut observée. Ceci pourrait indiquer une diminution de la conceptualisation des stimuli reliée au langage et aux processus réflectifs du soi.
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Cette thèse avait pour objectif général d’approfondir nos connaissances sur les rêves dysphoriques (mauvais rêves et cauchemars), selon deux axes. Premièrement, nous avons voulu éclaircir les implications méthodologiques reliées aux différentes mesures de la fréquence de rappel de rêves (articles 1 et 2). Deuxièmement, nous avons voulu étudier un aspect encore peu exploré des rêves dysphoriques : leur contenu (article 3). Dans la première étude, nous avons comparé systématiquement différentes méthodes rétrospectives et prospectives utilisées pour mesurer la fréquence des cauchemars et des mauvais rêves chez 411 participants. En plus de reproduire les résultats d’études antérieures selon lesquelles les mesure rétrospectives sous-estiment la fréquence des rêves dysphoriques, nous avons démontré que ces fréquences n’étaient pas affectées de manière différentielle par le format de la mesure prospective (journaux de rêves narratifs ou à choix de réponse). Dans la deuxième étude, nous nous sommes intéressés à la fréquence de rappel onirique en général (i.e. de tous les rêves) auprès d'un échantillon de 358 participants pour approfondir les résultats relatifs à la comparaison entre les deux types de journaux de rêves obtenus dans la première étude. Nos résultats soulignent que la fréquence de rappel obtenue par un journal à choix de réponse est plus élevée que celle obtenue d’un journal narratif, et que le présumé effet d’augmentation de rappel attribué aux mesures prospectives est limité dans le temps. Ces résultats suggèrent que des facteurs motivationnels sont impliqués dans la tenue d’un journal de rêves, et que dans le cas des journaux narratifs, ces facteurs outrepasseraient les facteurs attentionnels favorisant le rappel onirique. Dans la troisième étude, nous avons comparé le contenu de 253 cauchemars et 431 mauvais rêves obtenus prospectivement auprès de 331 participants, offrant ainsi l’une des descriptions de ce type des plus détaillées à ce jour. Nos résultats démontrent que cauchemars et mauvais rêves partagent de nombreuses caractéristiques mais se différencient en plusieurs points : le contenu des cauchemars est davantage caractérisé par des menaces physiques, et celui des mauvais rêves par des menaces psychologiques. De plus, les cauchemars ont plus souvent la peur comme émotion principale, ont une intensité émotionnelle plus forte, se terminent plus souvent de façon négative et sont plus bizarres que les mauvais rêves. Ces différences de contenu entre mauvais rêves et cauchemars suggèrent que ces deux types de rêves sont des manifestations d’un même phénomène variant en termes d’intensité, et que cette intensité est multidimensionnelle. Les résultats de l’étude 3 sont discutés en lien avec différentes théories sur l’étiologie et la fonction des rêves.
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Peu différenciées à la naissance, les émotions deviendraient intelligibles en étant élevées à la conscience par le développement d’une sensibilité aux sensations internes accompagnant l’émotion, sa représentation et sa symbolisation (Gergely & Watson, 1996). La théorie du miroir affectif-parental du biofeedback social de Gergely & Watson (1996), poussée plus loin par Fonagy, Gergely, Jurist et Target (2002), explique comment une interaction de biofeedback social complexe, innée, et probablement implicite, s’établit entre parent et nouveau-né pour aider ce dernier à différencier les somatosensations accompagnant l’expérience d’une émotion, au travers d’un comportement parental de miroir. Le but de cette thèse est de réviser cette théorie, et plus particulièrement l’hypothèse du miroir « marqué » (markedness), qui serait nécessaire pour dissocier le miroir parental du parent, et permettre l’appropriation de son contenu informationnel par l’enfant. Ce processus de sensibilisation est conçu comme partie intégrante du travail de symbolisation des émotions chez les enfants autant que chez les adultes. Cependant, le miroir marqué se manifestant par une expression exagérée ou « voix de bébé » (motherese) nécessiterait l’utilisation par le thérapeute d’une « voix de patient » (therapese) (Fonagy, 2010) pour être appliqué à la psychothérapie adulte, une proposition difficile à soutenir. La révision examine comment la sensibilisation d’une émotion est accomplie : par un mécanisme d’internalisation nécessitant un miroir « marqué » ou par un mécanisme de détection de la contingence de l’enfant. Elle démontre que le détecteur de contingence du nouveau-né (d’un fonctionnement semblable au système d’entraînement par biofeedback pour adultes) est le médiateur des fonctions de sensibilisation, de représentation, et de symbolisation de la ii sensation d’une émotion par ses processus de détection de la covariance-invariance, de la maximisation, et du contrôle contingent du miroir parental. Ces processus permettent à l’émotion de devenir consciente, que le miroir parental soit ‘marqué’ ou non. Le modèle révisé devient donc applicable à la thérapie des adultes. Une vignette clinique analysée à l’aide de la perspective du Boston Change Process Study Group sur le changement est utilisée pour contraster et illustrer les processus de sensibilisation et de symbolisation des émotions, et leur application à la psychothérapie adulte. Cette thèse considère les implications cliniques du nouveau modèle, et elle spécule sur les conséquences de difficultés parentales vis-à-vis de la disponibilité requise par les besoins de biofeedback social du nouveau-né, et sur les conséquences de traumatismes déconnectant des émotions déjà sensibilisées de leurs représentations. Finalement, elle suggère que le miroir sensible des émotions en thérapie puisse remédier à ces deux sortes de difficultés, et que le modèle puisse être utilisé concurremment à d’autres modèles du changement, en facilitant la génération d’états internes ressentis et symbolisés pouvant être utilisés pour communiquer avec soi-même et les autres pour la réparation de difficultés émotionnelles et relationnelles chez les enfants et les adultes.
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Thèse écrite grâce au financement du Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC)