Browsing by Author "H.S. Asthana"

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Hand Preference in the Deaf
(1999) Manas K. Mandal; H.S. Asthana; C.B. Dwivedi; M.P. Bryden
Fifty seven deaf and 71 hearing children were administered a 32-item Waterloo Handedness Questionnaire. The deaf children, in comparison to hearing children, were found to be weakly right-handed in terms of their hand preference with a relatively high incidence of mixed handedness.
Hemifacial display of emotion in the resting state
(1992) M.K. Mandal; H.S. Asthana; S.K. Madan; R. Pandey
The human face at rest displays distinguishable asymmetries with some lateralization of emotion or expression. The asymmetrical nature of the resting face was examined by preparing hemifacial composites, left-left, right-;right, along with normal facial orientation. The left side and right side composites were constructed by using the lateral half of one side of the face and its mirror-reversal. The left side facial composites were found to be more emotional than the right side or normal facial orientations of neutral expressions. © 1992 Rapid Communications of Oxford Ltd.
Incorporating the Outcomes of COVID-19 with Other Recent Pandemic Outbreaks on Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2022) Amrita Choudhary; Jay Kumar Ranjan; Payal Sharma; H.S. Asthana
The community transmission of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has created a sense of panic and anxiety around the world. There is a rich pandemic-based evidence that shows the effect of disease outbreaks on the mental health of healthcare workers. However, inconsistencies and discrepancies have been observed among the findings of most of the reported studies. Therefore, this meta-analysis was conducted to identify the mental health issues faced by the doctors, nurses, and other paramedical staffs as a result of any health emergency. Firstly, databases of several web sources, namely, EBSCOhost, PubMed, and Google Scholar, were explored for searching the articles that dealt with the psychological distress faced by healthcare professionals during any pandemic. Thereafter, retrieved articles were systematically selected using specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quality of the included studies was assessed through guidelines of Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE). Meta-analysis was computed using R software (3.5.3) with “metafor” package. The present meta-analysis includes 49 epidemiological studies consisting of 59,552 healthcare workers across the globe. The results of the analyses indicated that 7% of the healthcare workers reported anxiety issues (95% CI: 0.42–1.01), 5% reported stress (95% CI: 0.29–0.69) and depressive symptoms (95% CI: 0.40–0.52), 8% reported sleep problems (95% CI: 0.53–1.07), and 6% reported post-traumatic stress symptoms (95% CI: 0.41–0.70) during COVID-19. Prevalence of sleep problems among healthcare workers was the highest during the current pandemic, as compared to previous ones. Hence it would be reasonable to conclude that medical healthcare workers involved in controlling any infectious disease outbreak are under increased psychological burden and hence and are at a high risk of developing and experiencing mental health problems. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
Mirror-reversal of a face is perceived as expressing emotions more intensely
(1996) H.S. Asthana; M.K. Mandal
This study examined hemispatial bias in a free-viewing condition of the judgement of facial expressions of emotions. Righthanded male subjects were asked to judge the intensity, in terms of expressiveness, of facial emotion in normal and mirror-reversed orientations. Expressions in mirror-reversed orientation were perceived as more intense than in normal orientation. © 1996, Rapid Science Publishers.
Right Brain Damage Impairs Recognition of Negative Emotions
(1991) M.K. Mandal; S.C. Tandon; H.S. Asthana
Patients with right or left hemisphere-damage and normal control groups were asked to judge facial emotions from photographs presented in two orientations — upright, inverted. Responses were elicited with a matching and a verbal labelling task. Normal controls were significantly superior in the judgment of facial emotions than left hemisphere-damaged patients, who in turn were significantly superior than right hemisphere-damaged patients. Negative-aroused (fear, anger) and negative-nonaroused (sadness, disgust) facial expressions were recognized with significantly greater accuracy by left hemisphere-damaged patients compared to right hemisphere-damaged patients; the group difference in performance was nonsignificant for positive (happiness, surprise) emotions. © 1991, Masson Italia Periodici s.r.l. Milano. All rights reserved.
Role of cerebral hemispheres and regions in processing hemifacial expression of emotion: Evidence from brain-damage
(Informa Healthcare, 1992) M.K. Mandal; H.S. Asthana; S.C. Tandon; S. Asthana
Patients with focal brain-damage, right or left hemisphere-damage (RHD/LHD) and anterior or posterior region-damage (ARD/PRD), and normal controls (NC) were asked to match the photographs of (left-right) hemifacial expressions of emotions, positive (happy-surprise), negative-aroused (fear-anger), neg-ative-nonaroused (sad-disgust). Findings indicated that (a) NC subjects were significantly superior to brain-damaged patients; the difference between RHD and LHD patients was nonsignificant, and (b) ARD patients were significantly inferior to PRD patients who, in turn, were significantly inferior to NC subjects, in the perceptual matching task with hemifacial affective stimuli. © 1992 Informa UK Ltd All rights reserved: reproduction in whole or part not permitted.