Nonspecific factors and theoretical choice.

Psychotherapy ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Cornsweet
Keyword(s):  
Nonspecific Factors

scholarly journals Empathy Beyond the Conceptual Level: Core Nonspecific Factors of Psychotherapy

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Mommaerts ◽  
Liesbet Goubert ◽  
Dirk Devroey
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Nonspecific Factors

scholarly journals The Hyperfocusing Hypothesis: A New Account of Cognitive Dysfunction in Schizophrenia

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 991-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven J Luck ◽  
Britta Hahn ◽  
Carly J Leonard ◽  
James M Gold
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Term Outcome ◽  
Long Term Outcome ◽  
Good Target ◽  
Processing Resources ◽  
Nonspecific Factors ◽  
New Treatments

Abstract Impairments in basic cognitive processes such as attention and working memory are commonly observed in people with schizophrenia and are predictive of long-term outcome. In this review, we describe a new theory—the hyperfocusing hypothesis—which provides a unified account of many aspects of impaired cognition in schizophrenia. This hypothesis proposes that schizophrenia involves an abnormally narrow but intense focusing of processing resources. This hyperfocusing impairs the ability of people with schizophrenia to distribute attention among multiple locations, decreases the number of representations that can simultaneously be maintained in working memory, and causes attention to be abnormally captured by irrelevant inputs that share features with active representations. Evidence supporting the hyperfocusing hypothesis comes from a variety of laboratory tasks and from both behavioral and electrophysiological measures of processing. In many of these tasks, people with schizophrenia exhibit supranormal effects of task manipulations, which cannot be explained by a generalized cognitive deficit or by nonspecific factors such as reduced motivation or poor task comprehension. In addition, the degree of hyperfocusing in these tasks is often correlated with the degree of impairment in measures of broad cognitive function, which are known to be related to long-term outcome. Thus, the mechanisms underlying hyperfocusing may be a good target for new treatments targeting cognitive deficits in schizophrenia.

THE INFLUENCE OF SOME HORMONAL, DIETARY, AND TUMOR FACTORS ON LIVER CATALASE ACTIVITY IN RATS

1953 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 307-314
Author(s):  
R. W. Begg ◽  
T. E. Dickinson ◽  
A. V. White
Keyword(s):  
Catalase Activity ◽  
Body Growth ◽  
Protein Diet ◽  
Low Protein Diet ◽  
Growth Disturbance ◽  
Liver Size ◽  
Tumor Bearing ◽  
Low Protein ◽  
Nonspecific Factors

Liver catalase activity can be reduced by the administration of cortisone or stilboestrol and by the production of anemia, as well as by the presence of a tumor in the host. All of these factors cause a disturbance of body growth. However, interference with growth produced by adrenalectomy or low protein diet is not associated with loss of liver catalase activity. The loss of liver catalase activity in tumor-bearing rats is associated frequently with an increase in liver size. But rats with large tumors may have small livers and still demonstrate the drop in catalase activity. It is suggested that the loss of liver catalase activity in tumor-bearing rats is not due to body growth disturbance or liver hypertrophy, and is produced in excess of such nonspecific factors as adrenal stimulation.

Pre-erythrocytic stages of plasmodia. Role of specific and nonspecific factors

1988 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominique Mazier ◽  
Franca̧ois Miltgen ◽  
Sergio Nudelman ◽  
Andreas Nussler ◽  
Laurent Renia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nonspecific Factors
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