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The impact of combining SRSD instruction with a brief growth mindset interventi...
Camacho, A.; Alves, R. A.; Silva, M.; Ferreira, P.; Correia, N.; Daniel, J.Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) is an evidence-based instructional approach combining background knowledge, writing, and self-regulation strategies to improve students’ writing motivation and performance. While the positive impact of SRSD on writing performance variables is well-established, mixed findings were found for motivational variables, namely self-efficacy. In addition, the impact of SRSD on...
Anxiety and social support as predictors of student academic motivation during ...
Camacho, A.; Correia, N.; Zaccoletti, Z.; Daniel, J.In this study we examined whether parents’ perceptions of students’ anxiety as well as perceived support from both teachers and classmates were predictive of changes in students’ academic motivation during the first wave of COVID-19. To this end, we used a retrospective pretest-posttest design together with a latent change score model to analyze our data. From April to May of 2020, 394 Portuguese parents of stu...
Parents' perceptions of student academic motivation during the COVID-19 lockdow...
Zaccoletti, S.; Camacho, A.; Correia, N.; Aguiar, C.; Mason, L.; Alves, R. A.; Daniel, J. R.The COVID-19 outbreak has ravaged all societal domains, including education. Home confinement, school closures, and distance learning impacted students, teachers, and parents’ lives worldwide. In this study, we aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19-related restrictions on Italian and Portuguese students’ academic motivation as well as investigate the possible buffering role of extracurricular activities. Foll...
Rare Variants in 48 Genes Account for 42% of Cases of Epilepsy With or Without ...
Fernández-Marmiesse, A.; Roca, I.; Díaz-Flores, F.; Cantarín, V.; Pérez-Poyato, M.; Fontalba, A.; Laranjeira, Francisco; Quintans, S.; Moldovan, O.In order to characterize the genetic architecture of epilepsy in a pediatric population from the Iberian Peninsula (including the Canary Islands), we conducted targeted exome sequencing of 246 patients with infantile-onset seizures with or without neurodevelopmental delay. We detected 107 variants in 48 different genes, which were implicated in neuronal excitability, neurodevelopment, synaptic transmission, and...
Iron-enriched diet contributes to early onset of osteoporotic phenotype in a mo...
Simão, M.; Camacho, A.; Ostertag, A.; Cohen-Solal, M.; Pinto, I.; Porto, G.; Hang Korng, E.; Cancela, M.Osteoporosis is associated with chronic iron overload secondary to hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), but the causative mechanisms are incompletely understood. The main objective of this study was to investigate the role of dietary iron on osteoporosis, using as biological model the Hfe-KO mice, which have a systemic iron overload. We showed that these mice show an increased susceptibility for developing a bone l...
Iron overload in a murine model of hereditary hemochromatosis is associated wit...
Camacho, A.; F. Simao, Marcio; Ea, H. -K.; Cohen-Solal, M.; Richette, P.; Branco, J.; Cancela, LeonorObjective: Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disease caused by mutations in the Hfe gene characterised by systemic iron overload and associated with an increased prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) but the role of iron overload in the development of OA is still undefined. To further understand the molecular mechanisms involved we have used a murine model of HH and studied the progression of experimental OA und...