
Carmen SergiouLeiden University | LEI
Carmen Sergiou
PhD Clinical Forensic Neuropsychology
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September 2017 - September 2021
January 2017 - August 2017
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Violence is a major problem in our society and therefore research into the neural underpinnings of aggression has grown exponentially. Although in the past decade the biological underpinnings of aggressive behavior have been examined, research on neural oscillations in violent offenders during resting-state electroencephalography (rsEEG) remains sc...
Studies have shown that impairments in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in forensic patients play a crucial role their violent behavior. Moreover, interventions that aimed to reduce violence risk in those patients are found not to be effective. A promising intervention might be to modulate the vmPFC by transcranial Direct Current Stimulat...
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Studies have shown that impairments in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in forensic patients who also abuse cocaine and alcohol, play a crucial role in violent behavior. Moreover, interventions that aimed to reduce violence risk in those patients are found not to be optimal. A promising intervention might be to modulate the vmP...
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that impairments in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in forensic patients who also abuse cocaine and alcohol play a crucial role in aggression. However, current treatment in forensic patients is found not to be effective. A promising intervention is to modulate the vmPFC by transcranial Direct Current Stimul...
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Empathy can be seen as an individual factor decreasing the probability of violent, criminal behavior, whereas a lack of empathy is seen as an increasing factor to antisocial behavior. Antisocial behavior, especially aggression and impulsive behavior, is associated with dysfunctions in the prefrontal cortex. There has been a growing inter...
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Recent studies show that changes in one of the brain areas related to empathic abilities (i.e. the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)) plays an important role in violent behavior in abusers of alcohol and cocaine. According to the models of James Blair, empathy is a potential inhibitor of violent behavior. Individuals with less emp...
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Recent studies show that changes in one of the brain areas related to empathic abilities (i.e. the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (vmPFC)) plays an important role in violent behavior in abusers of alcohol and cocaine. According to the models of James Blair, empathy is a potential inhibitor of violent behavior. Individuals with l...
Background Recent studies show that changes in one of the brain areas related to empathic abilities (i.e. the Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex (vmPFC)) plays an important role in violent behavior in abusers of alcohol and cocaine. According to the models of James Blair, empathy is a potential inhibitor of violent behavior. Individuals with less empat...
There is growing interest in non-invasive brain stimulation as a novel treatment option for substance use disorders (SUDs). Recent momentum stems from a foundation of preclinical neuroscience research demonstrating causal and associative links between neural circuit activity and drug consuming behavior, as well as recent FDA-approval of non-invasiv...
A large body of literature suggests that adolescents with callous-unemotional traits have significant affective impairments, yet few evidence-based interventions exist for this population. The current article reviews the literature on interventions that target emotion recognition and/or perspective-taking abilities among adolescents to identify com...
Impairments in executive functioning give rise to reduced control of behavior and impulses, and are therefore a risk factor for violence and criminal behavior. However, the contribution of specific underlying processes remains unclear. A crucial element of executive functioning, and essential for cognitive control and goal-directed behavior, is vis...
Psychopathy is a severe personality disorder, the core of which pertains to callousness, an entitled and grandiose interpersonal style often accompanied by impulsive and reckless endangerment of oneself and others. The response modulation theory of psychopathy states that psychopathic individuals have difficulty modulating top-down attention to inc...
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Dear Community,
I am using the Mike Cohen script for Phase-Coupling. He analyses the Phase-coupling for the centre frequency of 5 hz, I want to look at the frequency bands instead.
How do I change this in the script that it will calculate this for example from 4-7 Hz?
load 'EC_I.mat'
% names of the channels you want to compute connectivity between
channel1 = 'Fz';
channel2 = 'Fp1';
% create complex Morlet wavelet
center_freq = 4;
time = -1:1/EEG.srate:1;
wavelet = exp(2*1i*pi*center_freq.*time) .* exp(-time.^2./(2*(4/(2*pi*center_freq))^2));
half_wavN = (length(time)-1)/2;
So how do I change the center_freq to a frequency band?
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Carmen
Dear All,
First of all I hope everybody is doing good in these weird times.
Second, I also have a question regarding a non converging factormodel. I translated a questionnaire from English to Dutch, and tried to validate it using an EFA, CFA and even parallel analysis up to 11 factors, but still no logical structure. Because we are also interested to see whether the psychometric properties of the questionnaire correlate with other self-report questionnaires that we conducted, we wanted to use te total score of the questionnaire to correlate with the other self-report.
Opinions are a bit divided within our team about the theoretical correctness of using a total score when the factor structure is not converging.
I was wondering what you as other researchers think about this and if there is a maybe another way of interpreting the psychometric properties of the questionnaire with the other self-report when the factor structure is not as planned?
Thank you so much in advance!