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... place after treatment and included both a retrospective pretreatment and a follow-up rating Finally, the research staff obtained a list of medications before and after treatment in order to ascertain ... units for stay from day to weeks and serve regional agencies of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health They have the same mission and similar staffing, for both psychosocial and pharmacological ... informed consent and testing were initiated and completed between and 24 h from the beginning of treatment (that is, from the subject's examination by a psychiatrist and formulation of a treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... neurological examination and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan were normal The results of our routine blood investigations were in the normal range, and a pregnancy test was positive At our ... second-generation black ethnic minority migrants are at a particularly high risk of psychosis in London The explanation for these findings is uncertain, but social adversity, racial discrimination, family ... including auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, thought disorder and paranoid ideation He had a history of substance abuse (alcohol and cocaine) but had been in remission for one year prior...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... events, and profile of mental health status using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) Level of education, marital status and cohabitation with the aggressor/partner, prevalence of childhood abuse, ... Community of Spain for their assistance in contacting female victims Authors’ contributions All authors read and approved the final manuscript CBR and SSL were involved in data acquisition and statistical ... aggressor/ partner Detailed information about the nature of the relationship between the woman and the aggressor/partner (marital status and cohabitation) was acquired 4)-Evolution of intimate partner...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... data management team The data was extracted into SPSS format, and the database cleaning, processing of the CIDI 2.1 algorithms and derived variables were performed DNA extraction: the DNA extraction ... literacy levels These measures have been estimated for each district using the available data from the Sao Paulo State Data Analysis System Foundation (SEADE) [35] and the Brazilian Institute of ... population Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2005, 111(4):291-299 Medina-Mora Icaza ME, Borges-Guimaraes G, Lara C, Ramos-Lira L, Zambrano J, Fleiz-Bautista C: [Prevalence of violent events and post-traumatic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... Reconciling Soldiering: Militarized Masculinity and Therapeutic Practices in the Canadian Military Reconciling Soldiering: Militarized Masculinity and Therapeutic Practices in the Canadian Military ... substance abuse [1,29,33,58] Results of national studies cannot be generalized Influences of multinational characteristics of disease management need to be investigated in more detail Treatment of ... during war and peacekeeping missions can also cause psychological trauma This paper focuses on PTSD as a result of male military service during gulf wars and peacekeeping operations in South Eastern...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 2Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zagreb, Croatia 3Care of Children and Youth Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 4Croatian Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Health ... to a specialist surgeon at the Clinic for Traumatology, Zagreb for further clinical and radiographic testing by means of magnetic resonance imaging In order to exclude participants with herniation ... Ethical Board of the Clinic for Traumatology in Zagreb Questionnaires A general questionnaire was developed to assess basic demographics, LBP status and psychiatric data Items assessing LBP included...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... K-SADS (a diagnostic clinical interview) and the CATS (a self-report scale) elicit similar information with regards to rates of trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms in a sample of South African adolescents?" ... bodies, and parents and learners was also obtained Learners and their parents/guardians were informed that participation was entirely voluntary Consent forms were handed to parents/guardians for ... staff The order of administration of the CATS and K-SADS was counterbalanced to control for practice effects The evaluation per participant took approximately 45 minutes Data Analysis Microsoft...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... in trauma types The explosion study was a devastating industrial accident, whereas the stabbing incident was an intentional, interpersonal assault The latter trauma types usually results in a ... Mollica RF, Caspi-Yavin Y, Bollini P, Truong T: The Harvard trauma questionnaire: Validating a cross-cultural instrument for measuring torture, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder in Indochinese ... still had a home returned after an average of 4.5 days For further information see Elklit [30] Stabbing incident On March 2006 a young female student was stabbed to death in front of about 100 of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... hold many life changing moments such as, getting married, starting a family, choosing a career, and so on Perhaps herein is a great part of the explanation Frequent changes and individual development ... that a decline in self-occupation, an increase in time spent in quiet reflection, and a decreased interest in superfluous social interactions also are characteristic of old age [35] Satisfaction ... size of the population by which each age group has reached a certain representative size All the data has been analysed by retrospective analysis and no contact has been made with any participants...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... private moment of hearing a doctor say that you have a life-threatening disease PTSD can begin after a tour of duty in a war zone, or it can strike after a freeway accident or sexual assault What’s ... role of triggers in PTSD “W e’ll always have Paris,” says Humphrey Bogart as he parts from Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca It’s a great movie line, and it says a lot about the amazing gift called ... explain how triggers can set off the bad feelings in a snap 22 Part I: The Basics of PTSD Looking Closely at Trauma Every case of PTSD starts in the same way: with a trauma The word trauma comes...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 23:34

... making the patient treatable at a lower security level can explain the low compassion satisfaction scores at ward A, the admission ward At this particular forensic unit, patients transfer to a ... PTSD was related to the variables length of psychiatric nursing experience, which of the wards you were working at (as categorical variable) and scoring on the variables Compassion Satisfaction ... problems, and to a "natural briefing" of the staff, so that nothing is unexpected, and therefore fewer things are potentially traumatizing One can also speculate on if one of the treatment principles,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... A holiday was now called for Ljiljana and I flew to the Croatian capital, Zagreb Even with an awareness of the danger of clichés, I can say that I fell in love with Yugoslavia A romantic streak ... effect of giving me an awareness of social class, but certainly put no pressure on me It was not said in a way likely to intimidate In any case, we were part of the class that mattered most in a rural ... fascinating I recall devising a new method for inspecting the lamps that were destined for a scientific instrument and being warmly praised for my initiative by the foreman As a hobby I learned...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:21

... essential components of the alternative pathway, and C3 is the initial point for the alternative pathway and a converge point of all three complement activation pathways, starting up for the terminal ... classical, alternative, and lectin, initiated via separate mechanisms, and a single terminal pathway that results in a formation of the membrane attack complex and subsequent cell lysis [18-20] During ... participants, performed the statistical analysis and the interpretation of data and drafting of manuscript SS was responsible for selection and diagnostics of PTSD patients, and organization of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... fact, many bulimia nervosa (BN) patients experience a brief reaction after binge eating while anorexia nervosa (AN) patients take a form of pleasure in being able to keep away from food Page of 13 ... many rating scales and instruments, such There is growing evidence based on several lines of research that OCD and OCRDs involve abnormal metabolism in specific areas of the brain Neuroimaging ... dysfunctional abnormalities in dopaminergic pathways that may require augmentation with DA-blocking drugs Recent neuroimaging findings have also proposed riluzole and other glutamatergic modulators as a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... engage in an exercise program, whilst making it achievable and affordable and able to be self-managed Exercise bands have been selected as they provide an affordable, portable and safe alternative ... incidental walks, in order to maximise feasibility and adherence Participants in the exercise group will also receive usual treatment for PTSD involving a combination of psychotherapy, pharmaceutical ... pharmaceutical interventions and group therapy facilitated by psychologists Voluntary programs including yoga, art therapy and use of the hospital gymnasium will also be available Motivational Tools Defined...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... posture (ardhakaticakrasana), hand-to-foot posture (padahastasana), half wheel posture (ardhacakrasana), back-stretching posture (paschimottanasana), half lotus posture (ardha padmasana), moon ... pranayama) and exhalation with chanting of a syllable, OM (udgheeth pranayama) The breath rate for the high frequency yoga cleansing breathing (kapalabhati) was approximately 60 breaths per minute ... posture (sasankasana), crocodile posture (makrasana), cobra posture (bhujangasana), locust posture (shalabhasana), shoulder stand posture (sarvangasana), and fish posture (matsyasana) The breathing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... activity in animal kindling models and with multiple mechanisms of action: inhibition of carbonic anhydrase, blockade of Na+ channels, inhibition of some high-voltageactivated Ca2+, negative modulating ... the increase in the threshold for flashbacks and nightmares that may explain the treatment response to topiramate in PTSD [19] Several animal model studies show that AMPA antagonists attenuate acoustic ... the amygdala indicative of a reduced GABA release and/or increased GABA uptake from the extracellular space Clinical studies with topiramate suggest that it is effective as monotherapy or adjunctive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... was a marker for language attainment in bilinguals[57] A magnetic resonance imaging found that hippocampus, parietal cortex, and the IC had significantly more atrophy in patients with early Alzheimer's ... (Brodmann's area 10), and bilateral Broca's area (Brodmann's area 6, 9) The comparison subjects also showed bilateral activation of cingulate Gyrus (Brodmann's area 24, 31), left activation of parahippocampal ... vestibular, attention, pain, emotion, verbal, motor information, inputs related to music and eating, in addition to gustatory, olfactory, visual, auditory, and tactile data Recent neuroimaging data,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... were about belittling, screaming, threats, blaming or sarcasm in the family And the items responded for physical abuse were about any act resulting with non accidental physical injury like beating, ... and was carried out from July 2006 to July 2007, with a maximum interval of 15 days, to avoid any changes in mental state The first phase involved the application of a sociodemographic data form, ... were analyzed by binary assessments A Chi-square test was used for analyses Then, logistic regression analysis (LRA) was performed to analyze the effect of these variables together Before the LRA,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20