Deficits in emotional and social cognition in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

A Girardi, SE MacPherson, S Abrahams - Neuropsychology, 2011 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: These studies investigated whether non-demented ALS patients display impairments
on tests of emotional decision making and social and emotional cognition, sensitive to …

Handbook of frontal lobe assessment

SE MacPherson, S Della Sala, SR Cox, A Girardi… - 2015 - books.google.com
There are several tests used in clinical practice and research worldwide that have been
devised to assess the functions subsumed by the frontal lobes of the brain. Anatomical …

[PDF][PDF] Assessing the risk of inpatient violence in autism spectrum disorder

A Girardi, E Hancock-Johnson, C Thomas… - The journal of the …, 2019 - academia.edu
The Historical Clinical and Risk Management scale (HCR-20) is a structured clinical judgment
tool used to assess risk of violence in secure settings. But the scale does not account for …

Online self-radicalisation: a case study of cognitive vulnerabilities for radicalization to extremism and single actor terrorism

R Little, P Ford, A Girardi - Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Understanding the psychological risk factors in radicalisation and terrorism is typically
limited by both a lack of access to individuals who carry out the acts and those who are …

Theory of mind and the Ultimatum Game in healthy adult aging

A Girardi, SD Sala, SE MacPherson - Experimental aging research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: The Ultimatum Game assesses decision-making involved in cooperative
interactions with others. However, little is known about the role that the ability to understand other …

Seclusion: the association with diagnosis, gender, length of stay and HoNOS-secure in low and medium secure inpatient mental health service

…, A Roychowdhury, A Girardi - The Journal of Forensic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The use of seclusion is controversial. Using routinely collected data from low and medium
secure service provider in the United Kingdom (n = 347) this study compared secluded and …

Clinical and criminal profile of internet offenders with ASD

L Higham, A Girardi, HV Edwards - Journal of Intellectual Disabilities …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Autism-specific characteristics have been associated with internet criminal activities.
Internet and non-internet offenders differ on a series of demographic, psychological and …

Older adults in secure mental health care: health, social wellbeing and security needs measured with HoNOS-secure across different age groups

A Girardi, P Snyman, M Natarajan… - The Journal of Forensic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The number of older offenders is rapidly increasing in the United Kingdom and some older
adults with mental health issues are referred to secure care services. It is therefore important …

Behavioural, medical & environmental interventions to improve sleep quality for mental health inpatients in secure settings: a systematic review & meta-analysis

…, FE Kinnafick, KC Breen, A Girardi… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the bidirectional relationship between sleep and mental health, the effect of
interventions to improve sleep quality for inpatients from secure psychiatric settings has not been …

Sleep quality and adverse incidents in secure mental health settings

I Hartescu, PM Gardiner, A Girardi… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sleep disturbance has been associated with adverse incidents among male forensic inpatients.
This study examined relationships between sleep quality and the occurrence/severity of …