Fine tuning activity levels A couple of days ago I wrote about activity patterns, and a study from Maastricht University that looked at the variable levels of activity that people with chronic pain can engage in. The study was designed to look at the pattern of activity from day to day, and found ‘… that for most of [...]... HUIJNEN, I., VERBUNT, J., ROELOFS, J., GOOSSENS, M., & PETERS, M. (2009) The d
Overdoing or Underdoing: Activity levels in chronic pain By a strange coincidence, after writing about regulating activity levels yesterday, I came across a pre-print editorial in the European Journal of Pain discussing exactly this: avoidance or persistence.We’ve become quite familiar with the avoidance idea - avoidance leading to deactivation, leading to disability, loss of roles, depression and so on. There have been [...]... Karsdor
Brain Activity Predicts People's Choices The activity in one brain structure can predict people's preferences, according to new research. The study shows that even when people rate options similarly, they will choose the one that causes more activation in the caudate nucleus, a brain region involved in anticipating reward.
Activity Of Individual Brain Cells Predicts Cognitive Flexibility A new study provides intriguing insights into mechanisms of cognitive flexibility at the single cell level. The research may help to explain how we can change our point of view when faced with conflict.
Musing about activity levels Last week I spent a little time looking at activity regulation, and especially looking at over-activity or persistence, rather than the usual under-activity or avoidance pattern. I was reading an in press paper by Hans Heneweer, Luc Vanhees and Susan Picavet, looking at a proposed ‘U-shaped’ relationship between activity and the development of low [...]... Heneweer, H., Van
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