This study provides preliminary evidence that SSRIs may be most beneficial in patients who are less able to engage cognitive control networks while processing negative stimuli.
The capacity to engage cognitive control processes begins to emerge in early childhood and continues to develop into late adolescence (Eisenberg et al., 2009; Rothbart et al., 2007).
Behavioral therapy and nutrition education might be sufficient to engage cognitive control and counteract predispositions in this population, which, if our findings are replicated, would be encouraging.
Resources limited the capacity to engage a control group to determine whether knowledge levels, worries or treatment choices were actually impacted upon by the MKDA compared with usual education practice.
In particular, increased anterior cingulate cortex activation is hypothesized to be an indicator of greater cognitive effort, such that the anterior cingulate cortex is less efficient at triggering the prefrontral system to engage cognitive control [ 45].
Feedback from staff and patients implied that intervention patients were often those who, due to personal, family, occupational or unknown factors, had been previously difficult to engage or control.
However, in order to continue to engage the control group providers during the period of the study (the first six months of 2012), they were offered two repeat educational visits during this same time period; these visits were related to COC pills and a repeat of the previous year's materials.
We discuss issues in relation to randomisation and contamination, engaging control villages, the intervention, and strategies to improve adherence.
Influencing these channels of communication is developing local-level capacity to engage in malaria control activities and contributes to local-level success in malaria control.
Where does a politician go these days to engage in damage control?
