Mental Movement Research Articles

Changing Psychiatry or Changing Society? The Motion for the Rights of the "Mentally Ill" in Greece, 1980-1990.

In 1980, the first formal association of mental patients, their relatives, and mental health professionals was founded in Athens, Greece. The Motion for the Rights of the “Mentally Ill” proposed a total restructuring of mental health care and a novel conceptualization of mental illness. On the one hand, it demanded that the mental health system be based on open services, psychotherapy, and on patients’ active participation in all decisions concerning their treatment and life. On the other hand, it conceptualized mental illness as a political issue that concerned all. Thus, the Motion viewed the promotion of the rights of the mentally ill as part of a broader project of cultivating conscious, active, and collective citizenship. This paper traces the Motion’s history during the 1980s, showing that it was shaped by both the socio-political conditions of Greece in the post-dictatorship period, a time of intense politicization, and by the legacy of mental patient activism in the Western world during the 1970s and 1980s. It argues that, although the Motion had a limited long-term impact, it represented the mental patient movement in Greece as it furthered the latter’s main features, most importantly its twofold endeavor to change not only the mental health system and the attitudes towards mental illness, but also society.

MMORPG Evolution Analysis from Explorer and Achiever Perspectives: A Case Study Using the Final Fantasy Series

Due to the advent of the Internet, massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been enjoyed worldwide by many players simultaneously, and game publishers’ revenues have reached billions of dollars from subscriptions alone. Frequent updates (e.g., versioning) and new contents (e.g., quest system) are the typical strategies adopted by developers to keep MMORPG experiences fresh and attractive. What makes such strategies attractive and retains the interest of players in MMORPGs? This study focuses on one aspect of a popular MMORPG: the player’s experience of the quest systems of Final Fantasy XIV (FF14). The different quest systems were analyzed considering Bartle’s players’ classification, specifically for the explorers and achievers. From an information science perspective, such an analysis can be achieved via game refinement (GR) theory, which formulates the information of the game’s progression into a measurable model of game sophistication. On top of that, we used the concept of motion in mind, which was derived from concepts in physics. It maps game progression information to enable the possible quantification and approximation of players’ mental movements and affective experiences in the game. Based on the analysis of the collected data using the proposed measures of GR and motion in mind, the impact of regular updates on players in long-term games is discussed. Insights from the study provide guidance and suggestions for potential improvements in long-term game design.

현대무용과 중국민간무용의 심리이미지화동작 인식 및 융합 발전

현대무용과 중국민간무용의 심리이미지화동작 인식 및 융합 발전

Catholic religious identity, prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors, and connectedness to nature in Chile

Prosociality (caring for one another) has been identified as a correlate of pro-environmental behavior. While our study affirmed the role of the Catholic Church in teaching prosociality, it did not reveal any direct link between Catholic identity and pro-environmental behavior. By incorporating environmental education into its teaching, the Catholic Church might promote environmentalism and inspire followers to take a leap towards their “ecological conversion”.Catholic religious groups have historically been underrepresented in environ mental movements. On the other hand, researchers have sought for decades to understand the factors that determine pro-environmental behavior. In this paper, data were obtained from two studies capturing different sample populations in Chile. The objective of the first study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, prosocial and pro-environmental behaviors. The objective of the second study was to explore the interconnection of the Catholic religious identity, pro-environmental behavior and connectedness to nature. Participants were students at a Catholic university and members of the general public. The findings demonstrate that Catholic identity positively correlated with prosocial behavior, which in turn positively correlated with pro-environmental behavior. However, we found no direct link between Catholic identity and pro-environmental behavior. Likewise, self-reporting Catholic individuals scored significantly lower on the scale of connectedness to nature, in comparison with nonreligious persons. Finally, the surveys revealed that connectedness to nature positively correlated with pro-environmental behavior.

Cover Picture: Concise Asymmetric Syntheses of Streptazone A and Abikoviromycin (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 19/2021)

From thought to action. In the creative process of natural product synthesis, the mental movement of atoms to their desired positions encounters the boundaries of real reactivity. In their Communication on page 10521, Thomas B. Poulsen et al. report the highly efficient assembly of a series of alkaloid natural products in the streptazone and abikoviromycin family. Precise orchestration of (asymmetric) redox manipulations and rapid scaffold assembly via a selective Pauson–Khand reaction enabled the syntheses.

Mental movements: How long-distance walking influences reflection processes among middle-age and older adults.

By providing a distinctive room for reflection, long-distance walks can help people similar to professional counselling. To understand reflection processes' influence on mental health, a framework focusing on personal transformations, specifically through the concept of liminality, can be used. Through nine semi-structured interviews with middle-aged and older long-distance walkers, this study answers the following question: How do middle-aged and older adults experience long-distance walking, and how do their experiences influence their reflective process? Four themes emerged during the analysis: (1) overcoming strain and achieving a sense of capability; (2) simplicity in obligations and having the time to pursue emotionally difficult experiences; (3) solitariness and reflection on oneself; and (4) calmness and embracing thoughts. These findings illustrate how going on long-distance walks may be similar to entering a liminal, or transformational, space. The findings show how long-distance walks can be helpful, or perhaps even therapeutic, in situations where personal transformation is required.

Neurological symptoms improved by hyperbaric oxygen therapy in a post-cardiac arrest patient due to carbon monoxide poisoning: a case report

Background: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and cardiac arrest can cause neurological complications such as mental deterioration and movement disorders through ischemic brain injury. We report a case in which neurological sequelae after cardiac arrest caused by CO poisoning improved after hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) therapy. Case report: A 43-year-old male visited the hospital with cardiac arrest due to CO poisoning. He developed neurological sequelae including mental deterioration and myoclonus after recovering spontaneous circulation. Anticonvulsant therapy was used after target temperature management but did not have a positive effect on neurological symptoms. However, after HBO2 therapy the patient’s neurological symptoms improved, and he was discharged a month later. Conclusion: HBO2 therapy may be considered when neurological sequelae persist after cardiac arrest due to CO poisoning.

On fleeing colonial captivity: fugitive arts in the occupied Jawlan

ABSTRACT This article examines artistic production in the formerly Syrian land of the Jawlan (Golan Heights) as a way of tracing Indigenous politics of decolonization. Through consideration of the Jawlanis’ longstanding refusal to integrate into the Israeli state, the article demonstrates how Yasser Khanger’s poetry and the music of the band Toot Ard are practices of artistic fugitivity that flee colonial captivity. It argues that these cases offer two different modes of metaphoric and actual fugitive mobility. Khanger’s is a mental movement toward disengagement from the settler-colonial state while physically staying in place. It evades subjugation by redefining confinement as a tool for staging poetic insurgency. The second mode is based on physical nomadic movement in international space while embracing a stateless condition. Fugitivity here becomes a movement that forces the Indigenous stateless self into the outside world, to realise the possibility of decolonisation by transgressing nation-state borders.

The “fugitive notes” of Teju Cole’s Open City

ABSTRACT While Julius, the narrator of Open City (2011), foregrounds walks, intellectual digression, and stories of minor characters, personal traumatic memories paired with traces and remnants of chattel slavery and the slave trade haunt him. My analysis of Teju Cole’s novel focuses on flight as a physical and mental movement that Julius performs, trying to flee from an association with his Nigerian past and the past of the Atlantic world. His compulsive walks and cosmopolitan musings offer only temporary, improvised refuge. The text remains caught in the gendered history and anti-black legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery as well as the ways in which Julius is implicated not only as a witness and victim but also as a perpetrator. Gendered anti-black violence, I argue, forms the obscured ground on which Julius’s narration is built, while the novel’s narrative techniques of oversharing and evasion ultimately negotiate its narratibility.

Spatial constraints and cognitive fatigue affect motor imagery of walking in people with multiple sclerosis

Motor imagery (MI) is the mental simulation of an action without any overt motor execution. Interestingly, a temporal coupling between durations of real and imagined movements, i.e., the so-called isochrony principle, has been demonstrated in healthy adults. On the contrary, anisochrony has frequently been reported in elderly subjects or those with neurological disease such as Parkinson disease or multiple sclerosis (MS). Here, we tested whether people with MS (PwMS) may have impaired MI when they imagined themselves walking on paths with different widths. When required to mentally simulate a walking movement along a constrained pathway, PwMS tended to overestimate mental movement duration with respect to actual movement duration. Interestingly, in line with previous evidence, cognitive fatigue was found to play a role in the MI of PwMS. These results suggest that investigating the relationship between cognitive fatigue and MI performances could be key to shedding new light on the motor representation of PwMS and providing critical insights into effective and tailored rehabilitative treatments.

Group Differences and Similarities in Mental Representation Structure of Tennis Serve.

A large number of studies have examined expertise and gender-related differences in the mental representation of motor skills in different sports, like throwing technique in judo, front loop in sailing, and integration of routines in the mental movement representation in volleyball. Also, tactical behavioral studies were conducted in futsal and football. In addition, studies were also carried out to support the motor learning process through mental training in golf. The Structural Dimensional Analysis-Motoric (SDA-M) method was also used in the medical sector for the rehabilitation of stroke patients. So far, few studies have investigated differences in the mental representation of a specific motor skill by experienced athletes of other related sports. The goal of the present study is to examine group differences and similarities in the mental representation of the tennis serve between experienced tennis, badminton, and handball athletes as well as a control group without any sport experience. We want to assess the quality of mental representation of technical-related overhead motion task expertise. For this purpose, we used the SDA-M to measure the mental representation of the tennis serve of four different groups (tennis, badminton, and handball athletes and a group of novices). As expected, badminton and handball athletes showed functionally well-structured representations, which were similar to the structure of the group of tennis athletes. Novices showed an unstructured mental representation. These outcomes confirm the relationship between mental representation and performance in the development of overhead motion. Furthermore, the results emphasize the importance of mental representations as an essential developmental aspect in learning motor skills, especially in learning technical-related motor skills.

Action representation deficits in adolescents with developmental dyslexia.

Developmental dyslexia (DD), a severe and frequent disorder of reading acquisition, is characterized by a diversity of cognitive and motor deficits whose interactions still remain under debate. Although deficits in the automatization of sensorimotor control have been highlighted, internal action representation allowing prediction has never before been investigated. In this study, we considered action representation of 18 adolescents with pure DD and 18 age-matched typical readers. Participants actually and mentally performed a visually guided pointing task involving strong spatiotemporal constraints (speed/accuracy trade-off paradigm). While actual and mental movement times of typical readers were isochronous and both conformed to Fitts' law, the movement times of dyslexics differed between conditions, and only the actual movement times conformed to Fitts' law. Furthermore, the quality of motor imagery correlated with word reading abilities. This suggests that the process of action representation is impaired in pure DD and supports the sensorimotor perspective of DD. Theoretical implications are discussed.

Learning to run the number line: the development of attentional shifts during single-digit arithmetic.

Solving single-digit subtraction and addition problems is associated with left and right shifts of attention in adults. Here, we explored the development of these spatial shifts in children from the third to fifth grade. In two experiments, children solved single-digit addition (Experiments 1 and 2), subtraction (Experiment 1), and multiplication (Experiment 2) problems in which operands and the arithmetic sign were shown sequentially. Although the first operand and the arithmetic sign were presented on the center of a screen, the second operand was presented either in the left or the right visual field. In Experiment 1, we found that subtraction problems were increasingly associated with a leftward bias by the fifth grade, such that problem solving was facilitated when the second operand was in the left visual field. In Experiment 2, we found that children can also associate addition problems with the right side of space by the fourth grade. No developmental increase in either leftward or rightward bias was observed for multiplication problems. These attentional shifts might be due to the increasing reliance on calculation procedures that involve mental movements to the left or right of a sequential representation of numbers during subtraction and addition.

A review on psycho physiological impacts of yoga on Anxiety in undergraduate students

Undergraduate students are defenseless against a basic period in formative development, confronting thorough scholastic work, and figuring out how to work autonomously. Physical exercises, for example, running and bicycling have been appeared to improve temperament and alleviate pressure. In any case, understudies regularly have low degrees of physical movement. Yoga is an antiquated physical and mental movement that influences temperament and anxiety. Be that as it may, considers looking at the psycho physiological impacts of yoga are uncommon in peer-checked on diaries. The point of this examination is to build up fundamental proof for the psycho physiological impacts of yoga on worry in youthful grown-up understudies. The current investigation proposes that yoga effect sly affects a psycho physiological level that prompts diminished degrees of worry in undergrad. Further research is expected to look at the degree to which various kinds of yogic practices address the necessities of various school subpopulations.

Pragmatizm ve Dil-Eylem Teorisi Kapsamında Ahmet Haşim’in “Bize Göre”Si Yahut Nesir Yazarı Ahmet Haşim’in Meslek Sırları

Peirce’e göre pragmatizm yirminci yüzyılın baskın felsefi fikridir. Pratik sonuçları ile muhtevası tetkike çalışılan pragmatik, dil-eylem teorisi kapsamında “perlokasyonel katman” ile bağlantılı olarak kullanılırsa edebî metin tetkikinde sayısız faydalar sağlayacaktır. Nesir edebiyatımızın en mühim isimlerinden olan Ahmet Haşim’in “Bize Göre”si (ki tahlili derinleştirmek için kapsamı bu fıkralar ile sınırlı tuttuk) üstünde yapılacak böylesi tatbikat ile Haşim’in üslubunun inceliklerini tespite çalışacağız. Şairin lisanını musiki ile söz arasında, sözden ziyade musikiye yakın, mutavassıt bir lisan olarak tarif eden şair Haşim ile nasir Haşim arasında fark vardır. Nasir Haşim pragmatik manada “sözden ziyade dil-eyleme yakın, muttasıl bir lisan” kurmak ister gibi durmaktadır. Edebî metnin okur üstündeki tesiri ancak tepkiler vasıtası ile ölçülür; metnin edebî bakımdan taşıdığı değer ile savunulan fikrin kıymeti (yahut kıymetsizliği) örtüşmese de okurda “zihnî bir hareket” meydana getirdiği için pragmatik olarak tesirlidir. Haşim’in teşbihleri ne kadar “mücerret” olsa da tesirleri “müşahhas”tır. Yani pragmatiğin gerçekleri zihinsel gerçekler olsa da algı süreci (doğru ve yanlış olarak değerlendirilebilecek kadar) hakikattir. Haşim bilhassa eşyanın doğası ile oynayarak müşebbeh ve müşebbehün bih arasında orijinal vech-i şebehler kurmak ile perlokasyonel katmanda pragmatik bir çerçeve çizmeye muvaffak olur. Mehmet Kaplan’a göre Türkçede Hâşim’in bu fıkraları kadar “dolgun” yazı yazılmamıştır. Oysa semiyotiğin (işaret teorisi) bize verdiği imkânlarla dolgunluk olarak nitelenen şeyin aslında “pragmatik bir hile” olduğunu görmüş olacağız.

ЖИТТЯ ОСОБИСТОСТІ У СМИСЛОЦІННІСНОМУ ПОСТУПІ

У статті акцент зроблений на тому, що місія кожної людини на Землі зводиться до ведення повноцінного життя та здійснення добрих вчинків за найвищим виміром духовності: жити так, щоб не гнатися за злом і не втікати від добра; нанизувати добрі справи так, щоб між ними не зоставалося найменшого проміжку; зводити свої вчинки до добробуту людства як до абсолюту одухотворення її духовних надбань. Підкреслюється необхідність відродження одного з найпоширеніших імперативів античної етики, естетики й педагогіки, згідно з яким поєднання приємного й корисного вважалося єдиним добротворчим процесом, у який включалася зростаюча особистість.
 Автор зазначає, що зростаюча особистість має бути здатною до розуміння як внутрішнього світу іншої людини, так і світу власного, до простеження своїх душевних порухів; вона має наповнюватись суспільно корисними утвореннями, які несе світ людей. Ціннісне вдосконалення зростаючої особистості відбувається і через зберігання паростків добродійних поривань, і через очищення негативних станів від різноманітних нижчих потягів і настанов. Автором надається характеристика байдужості як провідного негативного утворення і характеристика бережливості як внутрішнього утворення, яке має запобігати втраті наявних духовних надбань.
 Наголошується, що, поряд з буденними ситуаціями і відносинами, життя наповнене міжособистісними взаєминами вищого рівня; ним виступає ціннісний світогляд як провідний чинник становлення і розвитку особистості. Автор умовно диференціює дві групи особистостей: духовно досконалі й духовно примітивні особистості; і окреслює, якою має бути оптимальна поведінка духовно досконалої особистості стосовно особистості духовно примітивної.
 У статті автор доходить висновку, що навіть у найменшому треба діяти так, щоб воно передбачало найвищу ціль, і тоді життя приноситиме заслужену радість.

A Family With a Complex Phenotype Caused by Two Different Rare Metabolic Disorders: GLUT1 and Very-Long-Chain Fatty Acid Dehydrogenase (VLCAD) Deficiencies.

GLUT1 Deficiency Syndrome (GLUT1-DS) is a rare and potentially treatable neurometabolic condition, caused by a reduced glucose transport into the brain and clinically characterized by an epileptic encephalopathy with movement disorders. A wide inter-intrafamilial phenotypic variability has been reported. Very-long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD) deficiency is an inherited metabolic disorder of mitochondrial long-chain fatty acid oxidation (FAO) with also a variable age of onset and clinical presentation including cardiomyopathy, hypoketotic hypoglycemia, and liver disease. Sometimes, VLCAD manifests later with a prevalent muscle involvement characterized by exercise intolerance and recurrent rhabdomyolysis. We report a 40-year-old man with mild mental retardation and sporadic choreo-athetoid movements, who complained of recurrent episodes of rhabdomyolysis triggered by exercise or fasting since his twenties. His 15-year-old son had a psychomotor developmental delay with episodes of drowsiness mainly at fasting and exercise-induced choreo-athetoid movements but no history of pigmenturia. Clinical and laboratory findings in the son suggested a diagnosis of GLUT1-DS confirmed by SCL2A1 genetic analysis that revealed a heterozygous mutation c.997C>T (p.R333W) that was also found in the proband. However, the presence in the latter of recurrent exercise-induced rhabdomyolysis, never reported in GLUT1-DS, implied a second metabolic disorder. Increased plasma C14:1-carnitine levels and the identification of two known heterozygous mutations c. 553G>A (p.G185S) and c.1153C>T (p.R385W) in ACADVL confirmed the additional diagnosis of VLCAD deficiency in the proband. Nowadays, there is an increasing evidence of “double trouble” cases of genetic origin. Consequently, when atypical features accompany a known phenotype, associated comorbidities should be considered.

Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Movement Behaviors During Childhood: Examining the Longitudinal Developmental Patterns

The purpose of this study was to examine the longitudinal developmental patterns of mental health (i.e., physical, psychosocial, and executive functioning) and movement behaviors (i.e., sedentary behavior and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity [MVPA]) between Hispanic and non-Hispanic children. We tracked 153 children for 3years from kindergarten (time 1) to third grade (time 2; 91 Hispanic; mean age = 5.36, SD = .48). Physical, psychosocial, and executive functioning was assessed using validated surveys, while school-based sedentary behavior and MVPA were assessed by accelerometers. A 2 × 2 (time × ethnicity) factorial repeated measures MANCOVA (gender and SES as covariates) revealed significant ethnicity effect (p = .05) and time by ethnicity interaction effect (p < .05). Hispanic children reported lower physical (p < .05) and psychosocial functioning (p > .05) but higher executive functioning (p < .05) than non-Hispanic children in kindergarten, but the gaps narrowed in third grade. Results also revealed that children's sedentary behavior increased significantly (p < .05) and MVPA showed a declining trend (p > .05) over time. Ethnic disparities in mental health between Hispanic and non-Hispanic children exist but may reduce from early to middle childhood. The longitudinal changes relative to ethnicity highlight the need for tailored interventions to address health disparities in mental health and movement behaviors between Hispanic and non-Hispanic children.

Comparative study of observed actions, motor imagery and control therapeutic exercise on the conditioned pain modulation in the cervical spine: a randomized controlled trial

Aim: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of cervical exercise, motor imagery (MI) and action observation (AO) of cervical exercise actions on conditioned pain modulation and pressure pain thresholds. The second objective was to assess the effects of these interventions on cervical motor activity (ranges of motion and muscle endurance), attention, and the ability to generate motor images.Study design: Single-blinded randomized controlled trial.Materials and methods: Fifty-four healthy subjects were randomly assigned to each group. Response conditioned pain modulation, pressure pain threshold, were the main variables. The secondary outcome measures included, cervical range of motion, Neck flexor endurance test, mental movement representation associated and psychosocial variables.Results: All groups showed significant differences in time factor for all evaluated variables (p < .01) except pressure pain threshold over the tibial region. The post hoc analysis revealed significant within-group differences in the AE and AO groups in conditioned pain modulation (p < .05), with medium effect size in time [AE (d –0.61); AO (d –0.74)].Conclusion: The results showed that within-group changes in conditioned pain modulation, cervical muscle endurance, and attention where founded only in the AE and AO groups. Variations in pain thresholds at pressure in the trapezium area were also obtained in the three groups. Changes in the ranges of flexion-extension and rotation movement were presented exclusively in the exercise group, and in the capacity to generate motor images only in the AO group. However, there was no difference in the pressure pain threshold over the tibial region.

TAMILPPALLI MAANAVARKALIN THAMIMOZI VALARCHIYIL KUZANTAI VILAIYAADDUKALIN PANGKU

The study is to establish that children's games are supportive of Tamil language development. 20 students participated in the study as respondents. This study has been explored to identify indicator of the students' Tamil language personality and interests. The study proved that Tamil language skill can be developed through children's games, such as games with physical, mental movement, play games, play games, friendship games, solo play games, non-participating games, non-interactive games and co-op games.