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Université Catholique de Louvain - UCLouvain | UCLouvain · Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Background: Cognitive difficulties are a frequent complaint in long COVID and persist for more than a year post- infection. There is a lack of evidence-based data on effective intervention strategies. Non-pharmacological intervention programs that are used with other neurological populations have not yet been the subject of controlled trials. COVC...

Unlabelled: Over the last 20 years, virtual reality (VR) has gained a great interest for both assessment and treatment of various psychopathologies. However, due to high costs and material specificity, VR remains disadvantageous for clinicians. Adopting a multiple transdiagnostic approach, this study aims at testing the validity of a 360-degree im...

Background: For the past decades, virtual reality (VR) has proven to be a useful tool in the treatment of anxiety disorders such as social anxiety and agoraphobia. Due to high costs and access to a limited number of standardized environments, however, it has remained poorly beneficial for professional. An alternative is to use 360-degree immersive...

Background: Stigmatization toward psychosis is persistent among mental health professionals (MHPs) and negatively impacts the patients’ outcomes. One suggested way of reducing stigmatization is to expose MHPs to simulations of psychotic symptoms. This approach has been associated with an increase in empathy, but also with an increase in the desire...

Introduction: For the past two decades, virtual reality (VR) has proven to be an innovative approach for the assessment of state paranoia. However, the use of VR remains costly, and avatars are still far from realistic in terms of facial and bodily expressions. The present study aimed to test the validity of three 360° immersive videos (360IVs) as...

During the prodromal phase of psychosis, individuals may experience an aberrant attribution of salience to irrelevant stimuli. The concept of aberrant salience has been hypothesized to be a central mechanism in the emergence and maintenance of psychosis. The 29-item Aberrant Salience Inventory (ASI) was designed to measure five aspects of aberrant...

Background: Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative symptoms and functional outcomes. Switch targets multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioural processes associated with mot...

Abstract Introduction: Positive psychotic symptoms are suggested to be more prevalent in early adulthood. However, no previous study has examined a potential age effect especially for paranoia considering social reference and persecution as separated hierarchical dimension. Moreover, no previous study has examined the mechanisms involved in the dec...

Objective People diagnosed with schizophrenia experience difficulties in their daily life, which is best explained by motivational negative symptoms. This study explores the feasibility, acceptability, and efficacy of Switch, a new multifactorial intervention that targets motivational deficits. Method Eight participants with schizophrenia or schiz...

Background Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative symptoms and functional outcomes. Switch targets multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioural processes associated with motiv...

Background : Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative symptoms and functional outcomes. Switch targets multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioural processes associated with mot...

Background : Motivational negative symptoms hinder quality of life and daily functioning of individuals with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. A recently developed intervention, Switch, has shown promising effects on negative symptoms and functional outcomes. Switch targets multiple cognitive, emotional and behavioural processes associated with mot...

Negative symptoms, particularly motivational deficits, strongly affect the daily functioning and quality of life of people diagnosed with schizophrenia. A new intervention, called Switch, was developed based on a theoretical model of motivation in schizophrenia. Switch encourages goal directed behaviors by enhancing motivation, pleasure, coping wit...

Introduction: Models of auditory hallucinations (AH) state that AH arise through an interaction between negative emotions and limited available cognitive resources. However, this hypothesis has never been directly tested. Methods: A two-by-two factorial design was used to examine the effect of emotions (neutral VS negative) and available cognitive...

Background Evidence suggests that positive psychotic symptoms are more prevalent in early adulthood. However, studies have not examined a potential age effect in the general population specifically for paranoia. Further, whether paranoia’s hierarchical nature (i.e. persecution representing a more severe dimension compared to social reference) may b...

Introduction: One important aspect of human cognition relies on the ability to bias attention towards stimulus-independent and stimulus-oriented thoughts and to switch between these states – or source flexibility. This mechanism has received very little attention in the literature, and in particular in schizophrenia. Moreover, there is good reason...

Background: Hallucinations are a main symptom of psychotic disorder but are also prevalent in 6% of the general population (Linscott & van Os, 2013). However, the cognitive and emotional mechanisms underpinning hallucinations are still poorly understood. The aim of the present study was to explore the specific role played by negative emotions and c...