Childhood trauma is associated with increased instances of anxiety and depression, yet the mechanisms by which childhood trauma impacts psychopathology remains poorly understood. Cognitive inflexibility plays a significant role in the emergence and maintenance of affective pheno…
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Childhood emotional abuse (EA) and attachment insecurity oftentimes co-occur and moderate and mediate relationships among psychopathology and cognitive dysfunction into adulthood. However, these phenomena are often studied independently in parallel literatures and frequently foc…
A key question in the cognitive control literature involves determining the executive functions that mediate cognitive flexibility (CF) and the brain regions that support them. Recent perspectives have offered persuasive evidence suggesting that CF may be guided by low-level ass…
There is undoubtedly a complex association between early life factors and schizotypal personality disorder (SPD) which represents as schizotypal symptoms in the adolescent population. To explore this relationship, this dissertation first starts with a systematic review of early …
Background Research has shown that people need to be pre-informed about the ambiguity in order to perceive both interpretations (reverse) of an ambiguous figure. Children younger than 4 years mostly do not experience reversal even when informed. This suggests that the processes …
Uses key principles from the business world to help teens get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses.
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID), affecting 1 out of every 691 infants. Although maladaptive behavior has been studied in individuals with DS, there are few adolescent studies, and none that examine factors predictive of maladap…