Browsing by Author "Moustafa, Ahmed A."
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A disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease: Focus on the trans-sulfuration pathway
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)High homocysteine levels in Alzheimer's disease (AD) result from low activity of the trans-sulfuration pathway. Glutathione levels are also low in AD. L-cysteine is required for the synthesis of glutathione. The synthesis ... -
A large-scale study on the prevalence of math anxiety in Qatar
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2024 , Article)Background Math anxiety (MA) is a worldwide appearing academic anxiety that can affect student mental health and deter students from math and science-related career choices. Method Using the Arabic version of the ... -
Cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety, and depression in mothers of children with or without neurodevelopmental disorders
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: A large number of studies have examined psychological distress and emotion regulation (ER) in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, no study has previously examined "purely" cognitive ... -
Coping styles and symptomatic manifestation of first-episode psychosis: Focus on cognitive performance
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits are widely observed in patients with psychosis and represent one of most important determinants of functional outcomes. It has been shown that patients with psychosis prefer maladaptive coping strategies ... -
Depression Following Major Life Transitions in Women: A Review and Theory
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article Review)Depression can occur due to common major life transitions, such as giving birth, menopause, retirement, empty-nest transition, and midlife crisis. Although some of these transitions are perceived as positive (e.g., giving ... -
Mathematics anxiety and cognition: An integrated neural network model
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)Many students suffer from anxiety when performing numerical calculations. Mathematics anxiety is a condition that has a negative effect on educational outcomes and future employment prospects. While there are a multitude ... -
The abbreviated science anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences and associations with test anxiety, general anxiety and science achievement
( Public Library of Science , 2021 , Article)Science anxiety refers to students' negative emotions about learning science. Across two studies, we investigated the psychometric properties of the newly developed Abbreviated Science Anxiety Scale (ASAS), which was adapted ... -
The Arabic version of the modified-abbreviated math anxiety scale: Psychometric properties, gender differences, and associations with different forms of anxiety and math achievement
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2023 , Article)Background: This study examined the psychometric properties (factor structure, measurement invariance, convergent and criterion validity, inter-correlations, and reliabilities) of an Arabic version of the modified-Abbreviated ... -
The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a classical reversal-learning paradigm, ... -
The Need to Develop an Individualized Intervention for Mathematics Anxiety
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2021 , Article)Mathematics anxiety is prevalent in many societies around the world, ranging from 30 to 70% (for a review, see Betz, 1978; Dowker et al., 2016). More than 30% of 15-year-old students across the Organization for Economic ... -
Video/Computer Game Addiction Among University Students in Ghana: Prevalence, Correlates and Effects of Some Demographic Factors
( AVES , 2020 , Article)Background: This study represented the first investigation of video/computer game addiction in Ghana and Africa. We investigated the prevalence of video game addiction and some of its correlates. In addition, the effects ...
