W Kyle Simmons
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1860063 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | W Kyle Simmons |
| NOMBRES | W Kyle |
| APELLIDO | Simmons |
| FIRMA | SIMMONS W K |
| AFILIACIONES | Laureate Institute for Brain Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0399-9003 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A Preliminary Examination of Reward Processing and Loneliness in Cigarette Smokers
Background Loneliness is associated with a broad range of mental and physical health outcomes, including higher rates of substance use. However, the mechanisms underpinning this association remain unclear. Acute nicotine exposure can increase response to reward, but chronic exposure may reduce response via withdrawal. This could theoretically impact pursuit and engagement with nonsmoking rewards, including social interaction.Methods The purpose o…
A Preliminary Study of Smoking Abstinence Effects on Acquisition and Reversal Learning in a Probabilistic Learning Task
Background Cigarette dependence is characterized by persistent smoking despite shifts in reinforcement contingencies from primarily positive effects (e.g., mood enhancement) to more negative effects (e.g., smoking-related health problems). Reversal learning tasks evaluate individual differences in cognitive flexibility in response to shifting reinforcement contingencies. Little work has examined smoking abstinence effects on reversal learning in …
Into the Unknown
The parent–adolescent relationship is important for adolescents’ emotion regulation (ER), yet little is known regarding the neural patterns of dyadic ER that occur during parent–adolescent interactions. A novel measure that can be used to examine such patterns is cross-brain connectivity (CBC)—concurrent and time-lagged connectivity between two individuals’ brain regions. This study sought to provide evidence of CBC and explore associations betwe…
Depression and obesity
Interoception and Mental Health
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Influence of Visceral Interoceptive Experience on the Brain's Response to Food Images in Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to determine how visceral sensations affect responses to food stimuli in anorexia nervosa (AN). METHODS: Twenty weight-restored, unmedicated adolescent and young adult women with AN and twenty healthy control participants completed an interoceptive attention task during which they focused on sensations from the heart, stomach, and bladder and made ratings of these sensations. They then underwent functional magn…
The Clinical Significance of Posterior Insular Volume in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic criterion disturbance in the experience of the body remains a poorly understood and persistent feature of anorexia nervosa (AN). Increased sophistication in understanding the structure of the insular cortex-a neural structure that receives and integrates visceral sensations with action and meaning-may elucidate the nature of this disturbance. We explored age, weight status, illness severity, and self-reported body dissat…
Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans
Interoceptive predictions in the brain
Attentional bias to food cues in youth with loss of control eating
Circular analysis in systems neuroscience
Language and simulation in conceptual processing
This chapter explains that multiple systems represent knowledge. It focuses on two resources of knowledge, believed to have strong empirical support — linguistic forms in the brain's language systems, and situated simulations in the brain's modal systems. Although this chapter focuses on two sources of knowledge, it does not exclude the possibility that other types are important as well. It argues that statistical representations play central rol…
Embodiment in Religious Knowledge
Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events is grounded in the brain's modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations that become active to represent these entities in actual experience are later used to simulate them in their absence. In particular, simulations of perception, action, and mental states often appear to underlie the representation of knowledge, making it embodied and situa…
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems
A comparison of transferred receptor with other iron assessment measures in an upper‐income post partum Jamaican sample
Iron (Fe) deficiency is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world. During their reproductive years, women are especially vulnerable. However, methods of assessing Fe deficiency in countries where both Fe deficiency and infection frequently coexist, are not optimal. Frequently used methods do not differentiate between anemia due to Fe deficiency or that due to inflammation. This study compared several Fe assessment methods (Plasma fer…
Reduction in anaemia in pregnant women in three Caribbean countries possible results of different types of interventions
Studies have shown that the English‐speaking Caribbean has a high prevalence of anaemia in most countries where data are available. This study examines Jamaica, Montserrat and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and shows that they have reduced the prevalence of anaemia in their respective countries. The possible reasons for this decrease in the prevalence of anaemia are given
Hyporiboflvinosis in rural and urban pre‐school age children in Northeast Brazil
Dietary, biochemical, and clinical data have indicated that hyporiboflavinosis is a problem in Brazil. Since few studies have been done in Northeast Brazil on the pre‐school age child, a detailed study was conducted on preschool age children living in Recife and in a rural area. Both dietary and biochemical data indicated that the pre‐school age children living in a rural area (engenhos) had a lower intake and excretion of riboflavin compared wit…
Studies on hypovitaminosis a in Brazil and other Latin American countries
Hypovitaminosis A, as confirmed by dietary, biochemical data, and clinical sign, is a public health problem in Northeast Brazil, the area most seriously affected in Latin America. In a one year period about 1,000 pre‐school age children go blind from hypovitaminosis A. Current research consists of a nutrition survey in the three areas of the State of Pernambuco, the testing of the relationship between measles and vitamin A, and vitamin A absorpti…
A study in the use of oral massive doses of vitamin A
A study was conducted in the sugar cane growing area of Northeast Brazil on the use of massive does of vitamin A. It was shown that a dose of 225,000 I.U. of water miscible preparation could be given to preschool children without any toxic side effects. Conclusions could not be drawn on the effects of the massive does over a period of one year because of seasonal variations in the intake of carotenes. In the areas studied there was a definite inc…
Embodiment in Religious Knowledge
Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events is grounded in the brain's modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations that become active to represent these entities in actual experience are later used to simulate them in their absence. In particular, simulations of perception, action, and mental states often appear to underlie the representation of knowledge, making it embodied and situa…
Attentional bias to food cues in youth with loss of control eating
Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans
A study in the use of oral massive doses of vitamin A
A study was conducted in the sugar cane growing area of Northeast Brazil on the use of massive does of vitamin A. It was shown that a dose of 225,000 I.U. of water miscible preparation could be given to preschool children without any toxic side effects. Conclusions could not be drawn on the effects of the massive does over a period of one year because of seasonal variations in the intake of carotenes. In the areas studied there was a definite inc…
Hyporiboflvinosis in rural and urban pre‐school age children in Northeast Brazil
Dietary, biochemical, and clinical data have indicated that hyporiboflavinosis is a problem in Brazil. Since few studies have been done in Northeast Brazil on the pre‐school age child, a detailed study was conducted on preschool age children living in Recife and in a rural area. Both dietary and biochemical data indicated that the pre‐school age children living in a rural area (engenhos) had a lower intake and excretion of riboflavin compared wit…
Studies on hypovitaminosis a in Brazil and other Latin American countries
Hypovitaminosis A, as confirmed by dietary, biochemical data, and clinical sign, is a public health problem in Northeast Brazil, the area most seriously affected in Latin America. In a one year period about 1,000 pre‐school age children go blind from hypovitaminosis A. Current research consists of a nutrition survey in the three areas of the State of Pernambuco, the testing of the relationship between measles and vitamin A, and vitamin A absorpti…
Reduction in anaemia in pregnant women in three Caribbean countries possible results of different types of interventions
Studies have shown that the English‐speaking Caribbean has a high prevalence of anaemia in most countries where data are available. This study examines Jamaica, Montserrat and St. Vincent and the Grenadines and shows that they have reduced the prevalence of anaemia in their respective countries. The possible reasons for this decrease in the prevalence of anaemia are given
A comparison of transferred receptor with other iron assessment measures in an upper‐income post partum Jamaican sample
Iron (Fe) deficiency is the most prevalent nutritional deficiency in the world. During their reproductive years, women are especially vulnerable. However, methods of assessing Fe deficiency in countries where both Fe deficiency and infection frequently coexist, are not optimal. Frequently used methods do not differentiate between anemia due to Fe deficiency or that due to inflammation. This study compared several Fe assessment methods (Plasma fer…
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality-specific systems
Embodiment in Religious Knowledge
Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events is grounded in the brain's modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations that become active to represent these entities in actual experience are later used to simulate them in their absence. In particular, simulations of perception, action, and mental states often appear to underlie the representation of knowledge, making it embodied and situa…
Language and simulation in conceptual processing
This chapter explains that multiple systems represent knowledge. It focuses on two resources of knowledge, believed to have strong empirical support — linguistic forms in the brain's language systems, and situated simulations in the brain's modal systems. Although this chapter focuses on two sources of knowledge, it does not exclude the possibility that other types are important as well. It argues that statistical representations play central rol…
Circular analysis in systems neuroscience
Interoceptive predictions in the brain
Attentional bias to food cues in youth with loss of control eating
Influence of Visceral Interoceptive Experience on the Brain's Response to Food Images in Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to determine how visceral sensations affect responses to food stimuli in anorexia nervosa (AN). METHODS: Twenty weight-restored, unmedicated adolescent and young adult women with AN and twenty healthy control participants completed an interoceptive attention task during which they focused on sensations from the heart, stomach, and bladder and made ratings of these sensations. They then underwent functional magn…
The Clinical Significance of Posterior Insular Volume in Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa
OBJECTIVE: The diagnostic criterion disturbance in the experience of the body remains a poorly understood and persistent feature of anorexia nervosa (AN). Increased sophistication in understanding the structure of the insular cortex-a neural structure that receives and integrates visceral sensations with action and meaning-may elucidate the nature of this disturbance. We explored age, weight status, illness severity, and self-reported body dissat…
Evidence for a large-scale brain system supporting allostasis and interoception in humans
Interoception and Mental Health
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body's internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels. Interoceptive signaling has been considered a component process of reflexes, urges, feelings, drives, adaptive responses, and cognitive and emotional experiences, highlighting its contributions to t…
Depression and obesity
Into the Unknown
The parent–adolescent relationship is important for adolescents’ emotion regulation (ER), yet little is known regarding the neural patterns of dyadic ER that occur during parent–adolescent interactions. A novel measure that can be used to examine such patterns is cross-brain connectivity (CBC)—concurrent and time-lagged connectivity between two individuals’ brain regions. This study sought to provide evidence of CBC and explore associations betwe…
A Preliminary Examination of Reward Processing and Loneliness in Cigarette Smokers
Background Loneliness is associated with a broad range of mental and physical health outcomes, including higher rates of substance use. However, the mechanisms underpinning this association remain unclear. Acute nicotine exposure can increase response to reward, but chronic exposure may reduce response via withdrawal. This could theoretically impact pursuit and engagement with nonsmoking rewards, including social interaction.Methods The purpose o…
A Preliminary Study of Smoking Abstinence Effects on Acquisition and Reversal Learning in a Probabilistic Learning Task
Background Cigarette dependence is characterized by persistent smoking despite shifts in reinforcement contingencies from primarily positive effects (e.g., mood enhancement) to more negative effects (e.g., smoking-related health problems). Reversal learning tasks evaluate individual differences in cognitive flexibility in response to shifting reinforcement contingencies. Little work has examined smoking abstinence effects on reversal learning in …
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