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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Peter Fonagy , Patrick Luyten, Alesia Moulton-Perkins, Ya-Wen Lee, Fiona Warren, Susan Howard, Rosanna Ghinai, Pasco Fearon, Benedicte Lowyck Published: July 8, 2016 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158678   Abstract Reflective functioning or mentalizing is the capacity to interpret both the self and others in terms of internal mental states such as feelings, wishes, goals, desires, and attitudes. This paper is part of a series of papers outlining the development and psychometric features of a new self-report measure, the…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Nicole Doria , Matthew Numer Published: January 12, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247651   Abstract Eating disorders among adolescent girls are a public health concern. Adolescent girls that participate in aesthetic sport, such as dance, are of particular concern as they experience the highest rates of clinical eating disorders. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of young girls in the world of competitive dance and examine how these experiences shape their relationship with the…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Irena Pilch Published: February 25, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229625   Abstract The Dark Triad of personality is a cluster of three socially aversive personality traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy. These traits are associated with a selfish, aggressive and exploitative interpersonal strategy. The objective of the current study was to establish relationships between the Dark Triad traits (and their dimensions) and momentary affect. Machiavellianism, grandiose narcissism, vulnerable narcissism and the dimensions of the Triarchic model of psychopathy (namely,…

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Open Access Synopsis Richard Robinson Published: October 27, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002283 Citation: Robinson R (2015) A Molecular Clue to PTSD. PLoS Biol 13(10): e1002283. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002283 Published: October 27, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Richard Robinson. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited Competing interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist. Abbreviations: PTSD,…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Hans-Christoph Steinhausen , Helle Jakobsen, Povl Munk-Jørgensen Published: May 17, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177700   Abstract Objective This nation-wide register-based study investigated how often substance use disorders (SUD) and co-morbid disorders occurred in affected families compared to control families. Method A total of N = 2504 child and adolescent psychiatric participants who were born between 1969 and 1986 and were registered in the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register (DPCRR) had a mental disorder before the age of…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Tom Rosenström , Tim W. Fawcett, Andrew D. Higginson, Niina Metsä-Simola, Edward H. Hagen, Alasdair I. Houston, Pekka Martikainen Published: June 14, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179495   Abstract Divorce is associated with an increased probability of a depressive episode, but the causation of events remains unclear. Adaptive models of depression propose that depression is a social strategy in part, whereas non-adaptive models tend to propose a diathesis-stress mechanism. We compare an adaptive evolutionary model of depression to…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Wolfgang Tschacher , Peter Zorn, Fabian Ramseyer Published: June 22, 2012 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0039687 Abstract Background This study addressed the temporal properties of personality disorders and their treatment by schema-centered group psychotherapy. It investigated the change mechanisms of psychotherapy using a novel method by which psychotherapy can be modeled explicitly in the temporal domain. Methodology and Findings 69 patients were assigned to a specific schema-centered behavioral group psychotherapy, 26 to social skills training as a control condition….

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Open Access Study Protocol Lingling Zhang , Yiran Xu , Hongwei Li, Bingbing Li, Guiqin Duan, Changlian Zhu Published: February 24, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263109 Abstract Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological and developmental condition that begins in infancy or earlier and lasts through the individual’s lifetime. The aetiology and mechanisms of ASD are not yet fully understood, and current treatment comprises mainly education and rehabilitation, without significant improvement in the core symptoms. Recent studies suggest that microbiota change in…

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Open Access Peer-reviewed Short Reports Shahabeddin Vahdat , Ali Khatibi , Ovidiu Lungu, Jürgen Finsterbusch, Christian Büchel, Julien Cohen-Adad, Veronique Marchand-Pauvert, Julien Doyon Published: July 2, 2020     https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000789 Abstract In the absence of any task, both the brain and spinal cord exhibit spontaneous intrinsic activity organised in a set of functionally relevant neural networks. However, whether such resting-state networks (RSNs) are interconnected across the brain and spinal cord is unclear. Here, we used a unique scanning protocol to acquire…

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Open Access Unsolved Mystery Simon Baron-Cohen , Michael V. Lombardo, Bonnie Auyeung, Emma Ashwin, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Rebecca Knickmeyer Published: June 14, 2011 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001081   Abstract Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer clues to the etiology of this condition. Although the cause of this bias remains a mystery, we argue that it occurs because ASC is an extreme manifestation of the male brain. The extreme male brain (EMB) theory, first proposed in…

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