Rupert Conrad
Biographic Data
| ID | 5804167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rupert Conrad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rupert |
| FAMILY NAME | Conrad |
| SIGNATURE | CONRAD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Medical Research Council |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3207-2677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Older adults coping with critical life events - results of the revised demoralization scale in a representative sample of older adulthood
This study provides first evidence for an increased rate of demoralization in very old adults, in particular women, which is partly related to partnership status. We suggest that demoralization is considered as a crucial entity in older adulthood which can be missed by standard psychological screenings
Effect of a Biofeedback Intervention on Heart Rate Variability in Individuals With Panic Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: Some individuals with panic disorder (PD) display reduced heart rate variability (HRV), which may result in an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. Heart rate variability-biofeedback (HRV-BF) training has been shown to improve the modulation of the autonomic activity. Therefore, this randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the effect of a 4-week HRV-BF intervention in individuals with PD. HRV-BF training improve…
Coping Strategies Furthering Post-Traumatic Growth in Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal Study
(1) Background: Patients' behavioral attempts in dealing with Multiple sclerosis (MS) play an important role in post-traumatic growth (PTG). In a longitudinal study, we aimed to identify coping strategies predicting PTG. (2) Methods: 260 MS patients answered the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory and the Brief COPE Questionnaire at three time points during a 36-month follow-up period. (3) Results: an interaction effect between PTG level and assessme…
Spanish Adaptation and Validation of the Transplant Effects Questionnaire (TxEQ-Spanish) in Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Relationship to Posttraumatic Growth and Quality of Life
The valid assessment of the impact of transplantation on psychological well-being is highly relevant to optimize treatment. However, to date there is no standardized instrument available in Spain. The Transplant Effects Questionnaire (TxEQ) evaluates the specific problems associated with organ transplantation, such as worry about transplant, guilt regarding the donor, disclosure of having undergone transplantation, adherence to medical treatment …
Evidence for Attenuated Affective Processing in Obesity
Attenuated affective processing is hypothesized to play a role in the development and maintenance of obesity. Using an affective priming task measuring automatic affective processing of verbal stimuli, a group of 30 obese participants in a weight-loss program at the Psychosomatic University Clinic Bonn (M age = 48.3, SD = 10.7) was compared with a group of 25 participants of normal weight (M age = 43.6, SD = 12.5). A smaller affective priming eff…
Patients with obesity show reduced memory for others’ body shape
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Explanatory Models of Illness in Schizophrenic Patients in Jordan and Germany
Prevalence of hepatitis B markers among pregnant Hispanic women in migrant/seasonal work in Oregon
We screened 303 Hispanic pregnant women who were migrant or seasonal agricultural workers in Oregon for the presence of Hepatitis B serological markers. One carrier was identified (0.3 per cent, 95% confidence interval [CI] .02%, 2.1%). Evidence of previous HB infection was present in 5.3 per cent (16/303) of the women (95% CI 3.2%, 8.6%), rates similar to those for the general US population
The Reading Ability of Deaf School‐leavers
S ummary . Almost every child aged 15–16 1/2 years being educated in schools for the deaf and partially hearing in England and Wales, was given Brimer's Wide‐Span Reading Test which assesses prose comprehension. After excluding certain categories of children, results were available for 355 children. With degree of hearing loss as the main independent variable, results are presented in terms of mean and median reading age, and in reading age perce…
Lip‐reading by Deaf and Hearing Children
S ummary . A group of profoundly deaf 15‐year‐old subjects with no other handicap and of average non‐verbal intelligence were given a lip‐reading test. The same test was given to comparable hearing subjects ‘deafened’ by white noise masking. The difference between the groups was not significant. Performance of the deaf subjects (and the hearing) was, however, significantly better when they read the test items from print. The implication is that t…
Short‐term Memory in the Deaf: A Test for Speech Coding
A study was carried out to examine the feasibility of identifying by a short test whether or not any particular profoundly deaf school child uses a speech code in short‐term memory for verbal material. Consonant sequences were visually presented, drawn alternately from a set of letters which had high acoustic/articulatory similarity (AS), and from another of low similarity on this dimension, but with high shape similarity (VS). Relative recall pe…
The chronology of the development of covert speech in children
The Effect of Vocalizing on Comprehension in the Profoundly Deaf
A group of hearing and a group of profoundly deaf school children were tested for comprehension after reading prose passages either silently or aloud. The deaf subjects were known, from previously published studies, to comprise a subgroup who primarily relied on articulatory coding to memorize verbal material, and another subgroup who seemed more to rely on a visual code. Neither the hearing controls nor the deaf articulators showed a significant…
Short-term Memory Processes in the Deaf
Two experiments are reported. In the first, profoundly deaf schoolboys read consonant sequences for immediate written recall, reading, according to instruction, either silently or aloud. Detailed error analysis suggested a dichotomous classification of subjects into those primarily relying on artioulatory coding (A group) and those relying on some other mediating code which could depend on shape (non-A group). This classification correlated signi…
Information, Acoustic Confusion and Memory Span
Immediately after visual presentation, subjects were required to recall 6-letter sequences. Sequences were drawn from four vocabularies. There were two 3-letter vocabularies, distinguished by the probability of acoustic confusion within them, and two 9-letter vocabularies similarly distinguished. Memory span is shown to be effectively independent of information per item, and to depend substantially on the probability of acoustic confusion within …
Acoustic Confusions in Immediate Memory
Sequences of 6 letters of the alphabet were visually presented for immediate recall to 387 subjects. Errors showed a systematic relationship to original stimuli. This is held to meet a requirement of the decay theory of immediate memory.The same letter vocabulary was used in a test in which subjects were required to identify the letters spoken against a white noise background. A highly significant correlation was found between letters which confu…
Serial Order Intrusions in Immediate Memory
The theory that serial order intrusions in immediate memory lead to recall errors was tested experimentally. It was found that increasing the time interval between successive 8‐digit messages had no effect on recall performance. Analysis of the response errors showed that with a short interval between messages, serial order intrusions occurred, but they did not occur with long intervals. Thus the amount of error appeared to be independent of the …
Errors of Immediate Memory
Problems of immediate memory have recently come under active consideration both by information theorists and by neurologists. The former have made use of quantitative facts, whilst the latter have based their views on some very general characteristics of forgetting. It is contended that the kind of changes that occur in short‐term forgetting cannot be ignored in any account of immediate memory. Accordingly the main types of immediate memory error…
Acoustic Confusions in Immediate Memory
Sequences of 6 letters of the alphabet were visually presented for immediate recall to 387 subjects. Errors showed a systematic relationship to original stimuli. This is held to meet a requirement of the decay theory of immediate memory.The same letter vocabulary was used in a test in which subjects were required to identify the letters spoken against a white noise background. A highly significant correlation was found between letters which confu…
Information, Acoustic Confusion and Memory Span
Immediately after visual presentation, subjects were required to recall 6-letter sequences. Sequences were drawn from four vocabularies. There were two 3-letter vocabularies, distinguished by the probability of acoustic confusion within them, and two 9-letter vocabularies similarly distinguished. Memory span is shown to be effectively independent of information per item, and to depend substantially on the probability of acoustic confusion within …
The chronology of the development of covert speech in children
Prevalence of hepatitis B markers among pregnant Hispanic women in migrant/seasonal work in Oregon
We screened 303 Hispanic pregnant women who were migrant or seasonal agricultural workers in Oregon for the presence of Hepatitis B serological markers. One carrier was identified (0.3 per cent, 95% confidence interval [CI] .02%, 2.1%). Evidence of previous HB infection was present in 5.3 per cent (16/303) of the women (95% CI 3.2%, 8.6%), rates similar to those for the general US population
The Effect of Vocalizing on Comprehension in the Profoundly Deaf
A group of hearing and a group of profoundly deaf school children were tested for comprehension after reading prose passages either silently or aloud. The deaf subjects were known, from previously published studies, to comprise a subgroup who primarily relied on articulatory coding to memorize verbal material, and another subgroup who seemed more to rely on a visual code. Neither the hearing controls nor the deaf articulators showed a significant…
Short-term Memory Processes in the Deaf
Two experiments are reported. In the first, profoundly deaf schoolboys read consonant sequences for immediate written recall, reading, according to instruction, either silently or aloud. Detailed error analysis suggested a dichotomous classification of subjects into those primarily relying on artioulatory coding (A group) and those relying on some other mediating code which could depend on shape (non-A group). This classification correlated signi…
Errors of Immediate Memory
Problems of immediate memory have recently come under active consideration both by information theorists and by neurologists. The former have made use of quantitative facts, whilst the latter have based their views on some very general characteristics of forgetting. It is contended that the kind of changes that occur in short‐term forgetting cannot be ignored in any account of immediate memory. Accordingly the main types of immediate memory error…
Serial Order Intrusions in Immediate Memory
The theory that serial order intrusions in immediate memory lead to recall errors was tested experimentally. It was found that increasing the time interval between successive 8‐digit messages had no effect on recall performance. Analysis of the response errors showed that with a short interval between messages, serial order intrusions occurred, but they did not occur with long intervals. Thus the amount of error appeared to be independent of the …
Information, Acoustic Confusion and Memory Span
Immediately after visual presentation, subjects were required to recall 6-letter sequences. Sequences were drawn from four vocabularies. There were two 3-letter vocabularies, distinguished by the probability of acoustic confusion within them, and two 9-letter vocabularies similarly distinguished. Memory span is shown to be effectively independent of information per item, and to depend substantially on the probability of acoustic confusion within …
Acoustic Confusions in Immediate Memory
Sequences of 6 letters of the alphabet were visually presented for immediate recall to 387 subjects. Errors showed a systematic relationship to original stimuli. This is held to meet a requirement of the decay theory of immediate memory.The same letter vocabulary was used in a test in which subjects were required to identify the letters spoken against a white noise background. A highly significant correlation was found between letters which confu…
Short-term Memory Processes in the Deaf
Two experiments are reported. In the first, profoundly deaf schoolboys read consonant sequences for immediate written recall, reading, according to instruction, either silently or aloud. Detailed error analysis suggested a dichotomous classification of subjects into those primarily relying on artioulatory coding (A group) and those relying on some other mediating code which could depend on shape (non-A group). This classification correlated signi…
The chronology of the development of covert speech in children
The Effect of Vocalizing on Comprehension in the Profoundly Deaf
A group of hearing and a group of profoundly deaf school children were tested for comprehension after reading prose passages either silently or aloud. The deaf subjects were known, from previously published studies, to comprise a subgroup who primarily relied on articulatory coding to memorize verbal material, and another subgroup who seemed more to rely on a visual code. Neither the hearing controls nor the deaf articulators showed a significant…
Short‐term Memory in the Deaf: A Test for Speech Coding
A study was carried out to examine the feasibility of identifying by a short test whether or not any particular profoundly deaf school child uses a speech code in short‐term memory for verbal material. Consonant sequences were visually presented, drawn alternately from a set of letters which had high acoustic/articulatory similarity (AS), and from another of low similarity on this dimension, but with high shape similarity (VS). Relative recall pe…
The Reading Ability of Deaf School‐leavers
S ummary . Almost every child aged 15–16 1/2 years being educated in schools for the deaf and partially hearing in England and Wales, was given Brimer's Wide‐Span Reading Test which assesses prose comprehension. After excluding certain categories of children, results were available for 355 children. With degree of hearing loss as the main independent variable, results are presented in terms of mean and median reading age, and in reading age perce…
Lip‐reading by Deaf and Hearing Children
S ummary . A group of profoundly deaf 15‐year‐old subjects with no other handicap and of average non‐verbal intelligence were given a lip‐reading test. The same test was given to comparable hearing subjects ‘deafened’ by white noise masking. The difference between the groups was not significant. Performance of the deaf subjects (and the hearing) was, however, significantly better when they read the test items from print. The implication is that t…
Prevalence of hepatitis B markers among pregnant Hispanic women in migrant/seasonal work in Oregon
We screened 303 Hispanic pregnant women who were migrant or seasonal agricultural workers in Oregon for the presence of Hepatitis B serological markers. One carrier was identified (0.3 per cent, 95% confidence interval [CI] .02%, 2.1%). Evidence of previous HB infection was present in 5.3 per cent (16/303) of the women (95% CI 3.2%, 8.6%), rates similar to those for the general US population
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Explanatory Models of Illness in Schizophrenic Patients in Jordan and Germany
Evidence for Attenuated Affective Processing in Obesity
Attenuated affective processing is hypothesized to play a role in the development and maintenance of obesity. Using an affective priming task measuring automatic affective processing of verbal stimuli, a group of 30 obese participants in a weight-loss program at the Psychosomatic University Clinic Bonn (M age = 48.3, SD = 10.7) was compared with a group of 25 participants of normal weight (M age = 43.6, SD = 12.5). A smaller affective priming eff…
Patients with obesity show reduced memory for others’ body shape
Spanish Adaptation and Validation of the Transplant Effects Questionnaire (TxEQ-Spanish) in Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Relationship to Posttraumatic Growth and Quality of Life
The valid assessment of the impact of transplantation on psychological well-being is highly relevant to optimize treatment. However, to date there is no standardized instrument available in Spain. The Transplant Effects Questionnaire (TxEQ) evaluates the specific problems associated with organ transplantation, such as worry about transplant, guilt regarding the donor, disclosure of having undergone transplantation, adherence to medical treatment …
Effect of a Biofeedback Intervention on Heart Rate Variability in Individuals With Panic Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial
OBJECTIVE: Some individuals with panic disorder (PD) display reduced heart rate variability (HRV), which may result in an increased risk of cardiovascular mortality. Heart rate variability-biofeedback (HRV-BF) training has been shown to improve the modulation of the autonomic activity. Therefore, this randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the effect of a 4-week HRV-BF intervention in individuals with PD. HRV-BF training improve…
Coping Strategies Furthering Post-Traumatic Growth in Multiple Sclerosis: A Longitudinal Study
(1) Background: Patients' behavioral attempts in dealing with Multiple sclerosis (MS) play an important role in post-traumatic growth (PTG). In a longitudinal study, we aimed to identify coping strategies predicting PTG. (2) Methods: 260 MS patients answered the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory and the Brief COPE Questionnaire at three time points during a 36-month follow-up period. (3) Results: an interaction effect between PTG level and assessme…
Older adults coping with critical life events - results of the revised demoralization scale in a representative sample of older adulthood
This study provides first evidence for an increased rate of demoralization in very old adults, in particular women, which is partly related to partnership status. We suggest that demoralization is considered as a crucial entity in older adulthood which can be missed by standard psychological screenings
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Recall (6 works) · Audiology (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (5 works)