Subjects performed point-to-point reaching movements between targets whose locations ensured that the wrist paths spanned a range of lengths and lay in various portions of the arm’s spatial workspace. Movement kinematics were recorded using electromagnetic sensors located on the subject’s arm segments and thorax. Analysis revealed that wrist paths tend to lie in planes and to curve more as movement speed decreases. The orientation of the wrist-path plane depends on the reaching task but does not vary significantly with movement speed. The planarity of wrist paths indicates that the paths have close to zero torsion-a third-order geometric property. Wrist-speed profiles showed multiple peaks for sufficiently

slow and long lasting movements, indicating deviation from the well-known, bell-shaped profile. These kinematic findings are discussed in light of various motor control theories.”
“Event centrality CHIR98014 concentration refers to the degree to which the memory of a negative life event is a core component of a person’s identity. There is evidence that greater event centrality is associated with more intense psychopathology after different events, including the death of a loved one. This study sought to advance our understanding of the variables mediating the linkage between loss centrality and postloss psychopathology. Specifically, using

multiple mediation analyses, we examined the role of a) intrusiveness of memories about the loss event, b) negative future cognitions and catastrophic dbcAMP misinterpretations of one’s own grief reactions, and c) depressive avoidance and rumination in mediating the associations between loss centrality and postloss psychopathology. The outcomes showed that memory intrusiveness, the two cognitive variables, and the two behavioral strategies emerged as unique, independent mediators of the linkages between loss centrality and the indices of postloss psychopathology when controlling

for the shared variance between the proposed mediators. The implications of these findings are discussed.”
“A series of Mn(IV)(salen)(L)(2) complexes bearing different external axial ligands (L = Cl, NO(3), N(3), and OCH(2)CF(3)) from chiral GSK1120212 salen ligands with trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine as a chiral scaffold are synthesized, to gain insight into conformational properties of metal salen complexes. X-ray crystal structures show that Mn(IV)(salen)(OCH(2)CF(3))(2) and Mn(IV)(salen)(N(3))(2) adopt a stepped conformation with one of two salicylidene rings pointing upward and the other pointing downward due to the bias from the trans-cyclohexane-1,2-diamine moiety, which is in clear contrast to a relatively planar solid-state conformation for Mn(IV)(salen)(Cl)(2). The CH(2)Cl(2) solution of Mn(IV)(salen)(L)(2) shows circular dichroism of increasing intensity in the order L = Cl < NO(3) << N(3) < OCH(2)CF(3), which indicates Mn(IV)(salen)(L)(2) adopts a solution conformation of an increasing chiral distortion in this order.