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K G Bonham

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PubMed1989

The mentally handicapped person with epilepsy: a comparative study investigating psychosocial functioning.

A sample of institutionalized, mentally handicapped adults who suffered from epilepsy was compared with a matched control group without epilepsy in order to investigate profiles of adaptive skills and of behavioural disturbance. Results suggested that mentally handicapped people with epilepsy have consistently poorer life skills than their peers with no epilepsy but behavioural disturbance was not significantly elevated, except for a small sub-group whose epilepsy was resistant to pharmacological control. These results are discussed with reference to past research and management implications are considered.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1980

Experimental effects of a cognitive therapy technique in depressed patients.

Five single-case experiments were conducted to study the effect of a cognitive therapy technique on depressed mood. The effect on mood and psychophysiological variables of coping with an unhappy thought in two different ways, 'involvement' and 'distancing', was compared with thinking a happy thought. It was found that 'distancing' had a significantly alleviating effect on mood and that, of the five psychophysiological measures, the corrugator supercilii EMG and heart rate differentiated to some extent. Heart rate, corrugator EMG and mood were all significantly correlated. The results are discussed within the framework of cognitive theories of depression.

Adult↗