All participants were devoid of migraine history or any other neurological, internal or psychiatric disorder.
The study tested participants in two ways: first, it presented statements to the participants that were devoid of politics.
It, too, is a movie that converts images into physical sensations; it, too, is immersive (cameras are literally immersed); it, too, treats human participants like environmental furniture, devoid of inner lives, nonexistent apart from the task at hand.
Control participants had to be devoid of headaches for at least 3 months prior to enrollment, have no personal or family history of migraine, and have no more than an occasional mild headache (<5 times per year); we also included only those participants who had not sought medical treatment for headaches.
However, while in healthy older participants this phenomenon maybe devoid of clinical relevance, it may turn into an adjunctive state of increased cardiovascular risk when associated to major cardiovascular diseases, such as heart failure and coronary artery diseases.
In comparison, the half-marathon participants were recreational casual runners devoid of any such experience.
In the present work we aimed at investigating whether the different modulation of a given monetary reward automatically and unconsciously affects effort and performance of participants involved in a game devoid of visual and verbal interaction and without any perspective-taking activity.
These concerns may be especially relevant in the case of research conducted with anonymous participants or in the case of research devoid of direct interaction between researcher(s) and participant(s), such as in the case of online studies.
A study examining the value of speaking to terminally ill patients about death and dying illustrated that such discussions are not only devoid of stress for participants but indeed are helpful [ 19].
From Black Mirror to Her, pop culture has largely painted the idea of virtual sex as something taboo a concept generally devoid of humanity that leaves the participant depressed, drained, and lonely after having climaxed with a non-human entity.
