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Pooja Rai ¹, Sandhya Singh Kaushik ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology Arya Mahila P. G. College, Varanasi, IN
2 Department of Psychology M.M.V., B.H.U., Varanasi, IN

Abstract

Alcoholism is a disease that is negatively affecting the psychosocial areas of family members especially wives of alcoholics. (1) To know the impact of alcoholism on quality of life of alcoholic's spouse. What were the major areas of quality of life, which were getting more affected by severity of alcoholism? (2) To know the impact of Multi-modal therapies for Enhancing Quality of Life of Alcoholic's Spouse in a given severe case. (1)100 alcohol dependent patients (fulfilling DSM IV TR criteria) and their spouse (wives of alcoholics who did not have history of substance) were taken from SSL Hospital, B.H.U., Varanasi. This group was taken as experimental group. On the other hand, 100 nonalcoholic respondents and their spouse (who did not have history of substance) were taken as control group. (2) A Case Study. (1) Alcohol Dependent scale was administered on 100 alcohol dependent patients. W.H.O. Brief Quality of Life Scale was administered on wives of alcoholics and non-alcoholics i.e. both groups. (2) Application of Correction of Misconceptions, Auto suggestion, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Meditation, Positive Reinforcement and Nutrition therapies for improving Mental Health of wife of an alcoholic. (1) Findings indicated that spouse of alcoholics had significantly poor score on all dimensions (Physical, Psychological, Social relation and environmental) of quality of life scale as compared to control group. Although all dimensions of quality of life of alcoholic's spouse were affected, the dimensions of social relation and environment were significantly more affected by severity of alcoholism as compared to physical and psychological dimensions.(2) Multi-Modal therapies /intervention strategies showed better overall quality of life in the given case. (1) Quality of life among spouse/wives of alcoholics was poor as compared to control group. On the other hand, severity of alcoholism had negative impact on all dimensions of quality of life of alcoholic's spouse, But they were especially poore in maintaining social relations in their adjustment with environment as compared to their other dimesions. (2)Therefore, After Behaviour analysis, more focused, programmed and tailer made intervention strategies on these ares were implemented for better outcome in the given case.

Keywords

Alcoholism, Behavoiur Therapy, Mental Health, Positive Psycology, Quality of Life

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Pooja Rai ¹, Tara Singh ¹, Indramani L. Singh ¹, Trayambak Tiwari ¹

Affiliations
1 Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IN

Abstract

Human brain aging is a complex process, involving changes in anatomy, physiology and cognition. The process which actively suppresses task-irrelevant response for task-appropriate responses is referred as response inhibition. Older adults have particular deficiencies in the inhibitory attentional control mechanisms that serve to prevent or stop the processing of task-irrelevant stimuli (i.e., distraction). The present study examined differences in the performance of the young and older adults on tasks evaluating response inhibition by using a distracter-response binding flanker task. The sample comprised of 10 young (Age range: 18-35 years) and 10 older adults (Age range: 55-65 years) and the responses of the participants were taken across congruent and incongruent conditions. Results were discussed in terms of accuracy and reaction time measures for young and older adults. ANOVA was performed to investigate whether there was a significant difference in response inhibition between young and older adults.

Keywords

Age-Related Decline, Accuracy, Response Inhibition, Reaction Time.

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Pooja Rai , Indramani L. Singh ¹, Tara Singh ¹, Trayambak Tiwari ², Deepika Joshi ³

Affiliations
1 Professor, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, IN
2 Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu University, IN
3 Professor, Department of Neurology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, IN

Abstract

Context: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by degeneration of the dopaminesynthesizing cells of the mesostriatal-mesocortical neuronal pathway,which affects motor pathway in basal ganglia (BG). Neuropsychological studies showed that degeneration of dopamine neuroreceptor also affects nigrostriatal and mesocortical limbic system which is associated with emotional processing in PD. However, very few studies have identified deficit in selective attention in patients with PD patients except in patients with PD-MCI (PD-Mild Cognitive Impairment) or PD-D (PD-Dementia). Thus, the present study examined the effect of emotion on attentional processing in PD and matched control. Emotional flanker task was designed by using pictures selected from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) based on their normative valence ratings. Results revealed that attentional processing of emotional images were slower in PD patients in comparison to matched healthy control.

Keywords

Attention, Emotion, Parkinson.

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