Resumo As pessoas costumam ter expectativas excessivamente otimistas sobre si mesmas e sobre o futuro. As cog-nições e emoções negativas têm efeitos diretos sobre o comportamento agressivo; contudo, são escassos os estudos que consideraram a relevância das cognições positivas, como a autoconfiança e...

Altos níveis de impulsividade e consumo de álcool na adolescência

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Alice Rodrigues Willhelm et al. (1 avr. 2018)

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Resumo O objetivo desse estudo foi verificar se os adolescentes que experimentaram álcool apresentavam menor controle inibitório e maior impulsividade do que aqueles que nunca beberam. A amostra foi coletada em seis escolas públicas e privadas de Porto Alegre e fizeram parte deste estudo 122 adolesc...

Right frontal stroke: extra-frontal lesions, executive functioning and impulsive behaviour

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Morgana Scheffer et al. (2016)

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"The aim of this study was to evaluate executive functioning (EF) and impulsiveness in three groups of people aged 30 to 79 years: post-frontal stroke ( n = 13) and post-extra-frontal chronic stroke of the right hemisphere ( n = 31) and control ( n = 38). The years of education varied between the gr...

Effect of Aging, Education, Reading and Writing, Semantic Processing and Depression Symptoms on Verbal Fluency

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André Luiz Moraes et al. (2013)

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"Verbal fluency tasks are widely used in (clinical) neuropsychology to evaluate components of exe- cutive functioning and lexical-semantic processing (linguistic and semantic memory). Performance in those tasks may be affected by several variables, such as age, education and diseases. This study inv...

Frontal stroke: problem solving, decision making, impulsiveness, and depressive symptoms in men and women

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Morgana Scheffer et al. (2011)

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"The present study compared men and women who suffered a frontal lobe stroke with regard to problem solving, decision making, impulsive behavior and depressive symptoms and also correlated these variables between groups. The sample was composed of 10 males and nine females. The study period was 6 mo...