Five of the six contributors to this volume meet regularly in Oxford to discuss goal-directed and intentional behaviour, and their aim in producing the book was to communicate the tenor, atmosphere, and momentum of those meetings. Their success in achieving this goal is one of two surprises tha...
There is mounting evidence that suggests that executive dysfunction due to central nervous system (CNS) insult causes both short-term and long-term consequences, resulting in poor goal-directed behavior [3,5–8] and significant decreases in independent functioning in both soldiers and returning vetera...
However, goal conflict was assessed on a bipolar scale ranging from instrumental (negative values) to conflicting (positive values) and the observed mean of 'goal conflict' was negative and within a range that would be considered as goal facilitation. The observed association may be more ...
Participants with AN had no history of other eating disorders and were right-handed without a history of head trauma, neurological disease, major medical illness, bipolar disorder, psychosis, or current (past 3 months) substance use disorder. Healthy control participants did not have a lifetime ...