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Neurocognitive deficits, academic difficulties and substance dependence among Finnish offenders : connections to recidivism and implications for rehabilitation
(Turun yliopisto, 2018-04-27)
Neurocognitive and academic deficits are frequent among male offenders and the prevalence of these disorders is known to be higher than in the general population. Also psychiatric disorders and substance dependence are ...
"Dov'è la sinistra?" Hemispatial neglect in stroke
(Turun yliopisto, 2012-04-20)
As long as the incidence of stroke continues to grow, patients with large right hemisphere
lesions suffering from hemispatial neglect will require neuropsychological evaluation and rehabilitation. The inability to process ...
Physical Attractiveness as a Signal of Biological Quality
(Turun yliopisto, 2014-06-17)
It has been commonly thought that standards of beauty are arbitrary cultural conventions that vary between cultures and time. In my thesis I found that it is not so. Instead, I show that attractiveness and preferred ...
Worst of times, best of times: Assessing pandemic impact on adolescents
(Turun yliopisto, 2024-12-14)
The COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2022) caused unprecedented disruptions worldwide, significantly challenging adolescents' emotional and academic adjustment. This thesis explored these impacts through four studies across multiple ...
Social Cognition and Behavior in Relationship Context
(Turun yliopisto, 2008-08-23)
Social information processing (SIP; Crick & Dodge, 1994) and social-cognitive learning theories have been often used to understand children’s problem behaviors, such as aggression. According to these theories, children’s ...
Low sexual desire in women : an empirical investigation of predictors and psychological treatment
(Turun yliopisto, 2019-05-21)
The present thesis aimed at 1) investigating the change over time in levels of sexual desire as well as pre-dictors of low sexual desire in women, and 2) evaluating brief psychological treatment interventions for women ...
Unpredictability of maternal sensory signals: entropy as a novel metric of caregiving behavior
(Turun yliopisto, 2023-06-16)
Emerging evidence suggests that exposure to unpredictable maternal sensory signals in caregiving behavior (characterized as entropy rate) during infancy affects child neurocognitive development. However, the research ...
Language-specific aspects of reading acquisition: the case of Russian
(Turun yliopisto, 2015-11-20)
We have investigated Russian children’s reading acquisition during an intermediate period in their development: after literacy onset, but before they have acquired well-developed decoding skills. The results of ...
Behavioral Responses in Mice Selectively Bred for High and Low Levels of Open-Field Thigmotaxis
(Turun yliopisto, 2009-12-05)
In animal psychology, the open-field (OF) test is a traditional method for studying different aspects of rodent behavior, with thigmotaxis (i.e., wallseeking behavior) being one of the best validated OF parameters employed ...
Relieved after Doctor's Consultation? Primary Health Care Patients' Complaint-related Worries
(Turun yliopisto, 2013-04-13)
Worry is one of the central factors in primary health care patients’ experience with their current complaint. Worry is associated with, e.g., patients’ expectations and the outcomes of doctor’s consultations. The aim of ...