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Background: While challenges with parenting have been documented for individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), the specific mechanisms underlying these challenges are less understood. Further, there is currently a dearth in specialised parenting interventions that have been developed and empirically investigated for this group. This thesis consists of three studies that explore the parenting challenges faced by individuals with BPD and based on these challenges and their proposed u...

Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent mental disorder globally, with a greater morbidity rate among females than males. MDD encompasses both psychological and physical symptoms, and is associated with a higher risk of cardiometabolic disease (CMD), encompassing obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemia, and hypertension. This is attributed to shared pathophysiology, including endocrine dysregulation, inflammation, and stress. However, there is limited understanding o...

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2023 - An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the worlds most biologically diverse areas - South Africas Greater Cape Floristic Region. As part

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2023 - An international team of researchers spent October and November 2023 in the field studying one of the worlds most biologically diverse areas - South Africas Greater Cape Floristic Region. As part

Researchers find that watching immersive videos of candy consumption can significantly reduce one's craving for sweets.

Two new studies reached different conclusions on how beneficial artificial intelligence can be in assisting doctors using colonoscopies to diagnose colorectal cancer

Background: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental health disorder characterised by impairments in affect, behaviour, identity, and interpersonal relationships. Personal agency, operationalised by locus of control, refers to the extent that individuals feel that they have control over their outcomes. Low personal agency is understood as the tendency for individuals to perceive outcomes as a result of external factors, such as luck, chance, or fate. High personal agency is the extent t...

Background: When someone with lived experience of mental health difficulties provides help to others with similar difficulties, it is generally called peer support. Peer support may be one way to enhance interpersonal relationships, a factor known to improve recovery from borderline personality disorder (BPD). There is little known about peer support in BPD. Method: Four qualitative studies evaluated peer support for BPD. First, theory was built through an exploration to determine perceptions an...

With the department's CSP still generating talk, the department has moved to engage with farmers to explain the changes to direct payments.

Abstract Background Children live in a media-saturated environment, as the unsolicited recipients of powerful food marketing coercion. Their aptitude in digital communications, paired with their natural credulity, lack of cognitive defences and inexperience, makes children the most desirable demographic available to marketers. Marketing techniques used to promote unhealthy foods are sophisticated, persistent and influence food attitudes, preference and consumption – outcomes that are all incl...