OBJECTIVE: To establish normative values for a functional capacity evaluation (FCE) of healthy working subjects. DESIGN: Descriptive. SETTING: Rehabilitation center. PARTICIPANTS: Healthy working subjects (N=701; 448 men, 253 women) between 20 and 60 years of age, working in more than 180 occupations. …

Training systems with intelligent virtual agents provide an effective means to train people for complex, dynamic tasks like crisis management or firefighting. Virtual agents provide more adequate behavior and explanations if they not only take their own goals and beliefs into account, but also the assumed …

Literatuurstudie naar de effecten van mentale training bij kinderen. Resultaten: Twee studies hebben de verbetering van motorische eigenschappen in jonge atleten onderzocht, terwijl twee andere studies over kinderen met Mild Mental Disabilities (MMD) en Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) gingen. …

Onderzoek heeft aangetoond dat verbetering van fysiek niveau door training gepaard gaat met verbetering in cognitief niveau. De Structural Dimension Analysis of Motor Memory (SDA-M) wordt gebruikt om hiaten/problemen in bewegingsafloop op te sporen. Dit is een computerprogramma dat mentale representatie …

Kunnen gezonde studenten een onbekende vinger- of handbeweging leren met behulp van 'movement imagery'? 'Movement imagery' is het zich voorstellen van een beweging zonder deze daadwerkelijk uit te voeren. Het herhaald toepassen hiervan is 'mental practice'.

Vanaf welke leeftijd kinderen mental imagery kunnen toepassen en welke factoren hierbij een rol spelen, is nog weinig onderzocht. Dit onderzoek bekijkt of kinderen tussen de 5 en 14 jaar mental imagery kunnen toepassen en of deze mogelijkheid tot mentaal voorstellen stijgt met de leeftijd. Daarnaast …

What is already known about depression in dementia? Comorbid depression in people with dementia is associated with decreased quality of life (Shin et al., 2005), greater health care utilization (Kunik et al., 2003), higher mortality rates (Suh et al., 2005) and decreased caregiver’s wellbeing (Kerkstra …

Obesity, especially morbid obesity, is a major health problem with considerable impact on physical, mental and social quality of life. Assessment of quality of life is considered crucial to understand and evaluate the consequences of obesity. However, the heterogeneity of the quality of life concept …

The principle of minimum relative entropy is proposed as a general fundamental principle that could be used by the brain to do inference and update beliefs about the world. It originates from information and probability theory, but we relate it it to the brain, to the concept of surprise and to a minimum …

The labour market for experts through experience is growing. They work at client organizations and with increasing frequency at mental health care facilities and training institutes as well. This requires training and curricula for experts through experience. The author describes as an exemplary case …