She starts to have sudden fits, which, after a series of gruelling tests, are diagnosed as psychogenic non-epileptic seizures — "a physical reaction to mental suppression," one doctor says.
The central tenet of this doctrine, which goes back to Aristotle, is that the mind creates mathematical concepts by abstraction, that is, by the mental suppression of extraneous features of perceived objects so as to focus on properties singled out for attention.
In humans, the HEPACAM gene product is involved in multiple processes such as leukoencephalopathy, mental retardation, tumor suppression and leukodystrophy based on mutations associated with these disorders [ 47, 48].
This practice, however, remains debated because corticosteroids are only modestly effective in shortening the duration of exacerbations of COPD and have serious metabolic adverse effects including hyperglycemia, osteoporosis, myopathies, mental disturbances and suppression of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, among others [ 2].
This experiment explored how interactivity could mitigate the impact of a reduction in working memory resources through articulatory suppression on mental arithmetic performance.
We used these concomitant variables to confirm that they moderate the impact of suppression on mental arithmetic, and that their impact on the low and high interactivity conditions would differ.
A more precise measure of attention switching, perhaps using an automated task or a composite score from different attention switching tasks, might offer a more informative window on how switching skills might moderate the influence of articulatory suppression on mental arithmetic.
Using seizure control as a proxy for best clinical outcome, it was observed that there was a negative correlation between seizure suppression and mental functioning (Spearman's r = -0.23; p-value = 0.071) i.e. patients whose seizure control has not improved since initiating AEDs had better mental functioning.
The present experiment employed a dual-task procedure to explore the impact of articulatory suppression in a mental arithmetic task.
A dual task paradigm was used in which dieters (n=20) and non-dieters (n=20) completed mental arithmetic problems concurrently with suppression tasks designed to engage the central executive, phonological loop, and visuo-spatial sketchpad components of working memory.
This suppression of internal mental activity are thought to enable the reallocation of attentional resources from internal thought processes to goal-directed behavior [21].
