The aim of current study was to assess both cognitive and affective mentalization in well-defined groups of depressed and manic bipolar patients, compared to healthy control subjects, using a battery of tests measuring mentalization processes.
Therefore, in this study, an attempt was made to assess both cognitive and affective mentalization in well-defined groups of manic and depressed bipolar patients, compared to healthy control subjects, using a battery of tests measuring mentalization processes.
The relationship between possible language impairments and maternal smoking has been studied using various types of tests measuring both intellectual and behavioral aspects of development.
4 Accurate exclusion of venous thromboembolism can be improved by the additional use of tests to measure the concentration of D-dimer (a degradation product of fibrin).
And she showed no intention of rethinking any of the reforms that her predecessor, Joel I. Klein, brought to the system, chief among them the use of test scores and algorithms to measure the performance of teachers, principals and schools.
Second, we evaluated three criteria in the same study; bone mineral density, biochemical markers of bone turnover and physical performance with the use of a variety of validated test measures.
Real-time measures of anticipatory anxiety confirm previous reports, using post-test measures of anxiety, of striatal limbic activation during anticipatory anxiety while simultaneously demonstrating an increase in BOLD response in parallel with heightened anxiety.
On the other hand, the strength of our study is the use of four test for measuring mentalization and the well-designed groups of depressive and manic patients.
In an early attempt, we have tested the use of distance measures based on domain architectures, with moderate success (see Text S1).
When an imperfect standard is used to evaluate a diagnostic test, distortions occur in the commonly used measures of test performance, like sensitivity/specificity [ 2].
