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Psychosis: Goals of Pharmacotherapy
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2024
Antipsychotic drugs are a crucial treatment method for acute and chronic psychoses, bipolar illness, and behavioral disorders. The selection of these drugs depends on several factors, including the state of the disease, clinical judgment, possible drug interactions, and the patient's sensitivity to adverse effects. In immediate scenarios, such as delirium and dementia, short-term treatment with low doses of high-potency typical or atypical agents can effectively manage symptom exacerbation. For...
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Nonconscious Mimicry Occurs when Affiliation Goals are Present
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2023
Source: Diego Reinero & Jay Van Bavel—New York University People are social chameleons and regularly engage in nonconscious behavioral mimicry. This occurs when an individual unwittingly imitates the behaviors of another person, such as crossing one's legs moments after a person sitting adjacent does so, or adjusting one's body posture to match a conversation partner. Rapport between two people increases behavioral mimicry, just as mimicry also increases rapport. Psychologists have posited...
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Long-term Depression
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2019
Long-term depression, or LTD, is one of the ways by which synaptic plasticity—changes in the strength of chemical synapses—can occur in the brain. LTD is the process of synaptic weakening that occurs over time between pre and postsynaptic neuronal connections. The synaptic weakening of LTD works in opposition to synaptic strengthening by long-term potentiation (LTP) and together are the main mechanisms that underlie learning and memory. Calcium Ion Concentration Mechanism If over time, all...
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C. elegans Positive Butanone Learning, Short-term, and Long-term Associative Memory Assays
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2011
Here we describe methods to test C. elegans associative learning and short- and long-term associative memory. These population assays employ the worms abilities to chemotax toward volatile odorants, and form positive associations upon pairing food with the chemoattractant butanone. Increasing the number of conditioning periods induces long-term memory.
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In Vitro Calcium Imaging in Short-Term and Long-Term Rat Hippocampal Cultures
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2025
Source: Calvo-Rodríguez, et al. Fluorescence and Bioluminescence Imaging of Subcellular Ca2+ in Aged Hippocampal Neurons. J. Vis. Exp. (2015). This video demonstrates the use of fluorescence imaging to measure cytosolic calcium levels in short-term and long-term rat hippocampal cultures. By comparing young and aged neurons, it highlights how increased L-type voltage-gated calcium channel density and prolonged activation in aged neurons result in calcium overloading, a hallmark of neuronal aging.
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Motivation helps sustain effort toward a future outcome, while delayed gratification allows a person to prioritize later benefits over immediate rewards. These processes become important when short-term temptations compete with a distant priority. In psychological research, examining this tension helps explain why commitment, distraction management, and continued effort influence achievement and behavior change.
Planning converts a desired outcome into manageable steps that organize present behavior. Progress monitoring then provides information about whether those steps are working, allowing individuals to adjust strategies when circumstances change. This combination supports self-regulation because it connects future priorities with observable actions and creates opportunities to correct ineffective approaches before effort is lost.
Feedback helps individuals evaluate progress and decide whether their current strategy remains useful. When progress is limited or conditions change, that information can prompt adjustment rather than abandonment. Feedback also supports commitment by keeping attention connected to the intended outcome, while managing distractions protects effort from competing immediate demands.
A useful pursuit process begins by defining the desired outcome, then dividing it into manageable steps. Individuals organize present actions around those steps, monitor progress, and use feedback to assess performance. If circumstances change, they adjust their strategies while maintaining commitment and managing distractions that could interfere with continued effort.
Psychologists examine long-term goal pursuit across education, work, health, and personal development. These settings provide different contexts for studying how motivation, planning, self-regulation, delayed gratification, and feedback shape behavior over time. Comparing them helps clarify how people organize effort around future priorities and how goal pursuit relates to achievement, behavior change, and well-being.
Research can show how people sustain effort, respond to competing immediate rewards, and alter strategies when progress or circumstances change. It also connects goal pursuit with broader outcomes, including achievement, behavior change, persistence, and well-being. Studying these processes provides psychological context for understanding why present actions sometimes support, or conflict with, future priorities.