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Management of pituitary conditions can be problematic with many patients experiencing long-term psychological and social difficulties that impact on their quality of life. This study aimed to identify psychosocial symptoms associated with pituitary conditions that lead to poor quality of life and identify differences in symptomatology between patient groups. A survey using measures of psychological and social symptoms was sent to 2000 members of the Pituitary Foundation in January 2016. The survey was completed by 1062 patients (683 female), aged under 18 to over 65 years, using categorical age ranges. Physical and psychosocial symptoms including appearance issues, fatigue, anxiety and depression were reported. Using correlational and regression analyses, significant variation in symptoms were identified across gender, age range and condition type that were impairing patients' long-term functioning and impacting quality of life. There is a need for greater patient information and advice surrounding psychosocial symptoms of pituitary conditions.This article explores the challenges in maintaining community nursing placements as dynamic learning experiences for student nurses during the pandemic and beyond. Opportunities to create new ways of working and learning are essential to ensure student nurses can continue to be exposed to community nursing care. Developing insight, understanding, knowledge and skills in this unique learning environment is instrumental to encourage the next generation of community nurses and increase the future workforce. Suggestions for alternative ways of providing learning experiences during the present period are discussed, which could also be embedded as long-term strategies in the future.Urinary incontinence is a common condition that affects both men and women, and with profoundly negative effects. Prevalence figures do show that it is more common in younger women than men, but as people age the difference decreases, with research identifying that one in three older men have continence issues. However, even with this increase, there is little direct best practice guidance on addressing male urinary incontinence compared to that for women. Professionals seem to be unaware that men have known existing barriers to accessing health care and this would be especially true of such an embarrassing condition. There seems to be a lack of education in identifying symptoms and assessing and little thought to appropriate management if required. This can also be true of manufacturers that provide continence management equipment. This article will look at some of these themes and highlight the gender gaps and give guidance on how professionals may address these.Parkinson's disease (PD) is an incurable and progressive neurodegenerative disorder. People with PD also have increased muscle weakness and the typical symptoms of tremor, stiffness, slowness, balance problems and/or gait disorders. Other symptoms may include an overactive bladder, urgency and nocturia which can often lead to incontinence. Treatment options vary are dependent on the cause of the incontinence and should focus on improving Quality of life with a multi-pronged diagnosis-specific approach that takes into consideration a patient's ability to comply with treatment. The article looks at the role of the community nurse in caring for patients with PD and lower urinary disorders. They have a key role in assessment of patients and supporting families with tailor made bladder training such as establish a regular toilet routine, education about pelvic floor exercises or supply of incontinence products.Students frequently generate mnemonic cues to help them remember difficult or abstract information (Tullis & Maddox, Metacognition and Learning, 2020, 15, 129). Self-generated mnemonics have the potential to be particularly effective means of remembering target information because they can transform abstract information into meaningful units, connect information to existing schema, and create distinct retrieval routes to the targets. Across five experiments, we compared the effectiveness of self-generated mnemonics to mnemonics generated by others for remembering chemistry information. Generating one's own mnemonics consistently boosted recall for both the chemistry content and the mnemonic itself. However, experimentally boosting recall of mnemonics through retrieval practice did not affect recall of associated chemistry content. These results indicate that improved recall of chemistry content is not caused by better recall of the mnemonic itself; rather, generating a mnemonic involves deep and effortful processing of chemistry content that boosts recall more than reading someone else's mnemonic. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).According to the textbooks, blindsight is a neuropsychological condition characterized by preserved capacities for voluntary visual discrimination unaccompanied by visual awareness. Gefitinib supplier So construed, blindsight precipitated a revolution in theorizing consciousness. In Phillips (Psychological Review, 2021), I argued that the textbooks are wrong and the revolution ill-founded. Blindsight is exclusively a matter of conscious, albeit qualitatively degraded, vision which appears unconscious because of conservative response bias. Michel and Lau (Psychological Review, 2021) object first, that residual awareness in blindsight cannot account for patients' impressive, feature-specific discriminatory abilities; and second, that performance matching makes response-bias explanations of unreported awareness implausible. They then offer a positive picture of blindsight as a specific deficit of detection, locating this idea within a framework which distinguishes perceptual from response bias. Here, I explain why neither objection convinces. I then argue that Michel and Lau give us no good reason to prefer their approach to our simpler, conscious-vision-only alternative. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).Phillips argues that blindsight is due to response criterion artifacts under degraded conscious vision. His view provides alternative explanations for some studies, but may not work well when one considers several key findings in conjunction. Empirically, not all criterion effects are decidedly nonperceptual. Awareness is not completely abolished for some stimuli, in some patients. But in other cases, it is clearly impaired relative to the corresponding visual sensitivity. This relative dissociation is what makes blindsight so important and interesting. 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