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... stranger and costlier, in terms of sacrifices, demands and acts of atonement He self-mutilates, binges on food or sex, menaces for trivial wants and against trivial dangers The force and repetitiveness ... analysis of the transference and elements of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy In both conditions, recruitment, informed consent and testing were initiated and completed between and 24 h from the beginning ... behavioral crises (for example, of irrational and shifting moods, impulsivity and psychotic symptoms) In summary, reviews of those studies find the evidence sparse and inconclusive, with trends in support...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... withdrawn and quiet and there was some delay in her responses to questions She was tearful and her mood was low but reactive She described vivid and clear auditory and visual hallucinations and persecutory ... influences psychosis both directly, through the effects of specific PTSD symptoms including avoidance, over-arousal and re-experiencing the trauma, and indirectly, through the effects of common consequences ... mental health services, her psychotic symptoms and PTSD features became more frequent and intense With no stable relationship she became pregnant and visited her general practitioner who referred...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... anxiety and PTSD symptoms and also had a higher incidence of suicidal thoughts and attempts than women not exposed to IPV There were no differences between women exposed to physical and psychological ... male partners, had originally been recruited through the Centers for Helping Women (which offers information, help from lawyers and social workers, and some psychological interventions for the ... administered at both T-1 and T-2 except the childhood abuse questionnaire (only at T-1) and the life events and social support questionnaires (only at T-2) The questionnaires from which information for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... levels of violence and social inequality The association between violence and inequality in the two cities may provide a huge variability in terms of victimization, outcomes, and correlated factors ... traumatic events and PTSD, common mental disorders and hazardous alcohol use and dependence 4) To identify potential vulnerability and resilience factors at both individual and community level ... and specificity for depressive disorder (82.5% and 92.8%), phobic-anxiety disorders (80.6% and 93.5%) and alcohol hazardous use and dependence (79.5% and 97.3%) were found to be satisfactory [36]...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families" by Keith Armstrong, Suzanne Best, and Paula Domenici serves as a handbook for soldiers (and their affiliates) who have been deployed and feel affected ... read and approved the final version and the manuscript has not been funded, submitted or published anywhere else KV, SM and DAG designed the study KV and RJ performed the search routines KV, DQ and ... authors focus on healthy and self-healing human structures, like inner strength and resiliency They emphasize that psychological symptoms upon return are normal and transient and, moreover, that only...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... contributions MB and VD conceived the study and provided the research idea; VM, LBie < and MB performed clinical work and surveyed the patients; MB, OP and VB performed the analysis, MB, VB and OP drafted ... mean quality of life and was predominantly receiving membership from the PTSD+LBP and PTSD group, while cluster number had most contribution from the PTSD+LBP group and had the lowest mean quality ... Homeland war (1991-1995) veterans who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder and chronic pain Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:56 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Robertson, Zissis and Leger [11] used self-report measures to determine exposure to violence, as well as structured questionnaires and nonstandardized clinical assessments to elicit symptoms and make ... assess trauma exposure and PTSD symptomatology and asked the question: " Do the K-SADS (a diagnostic clinical interview) and the CATS (a self-report scale) elicit similar information with regards ... clinician-administered and devised for the present study It included information on age, sex, residential address, parental marital status, and occupation Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... and dissociation were used in this study The possible score range was 0–52 for NA and 0–12 for dissociation The alpha values in the explosion and the stabbing study were 0.85 vs 0.83 for NA and ... -0.18, p < 0.0005) and received sympathy and support (r = -0.30, p < 0.0005) the correlation was moderate and negative, whereas experiencing being let down had a moderate and positive correlation ... range of 0–128, and the highest possible scores for the subscales are 20 (re-experiencing), 28 (avoidance), and 20 (arousal) The HTQ part IV has been used extensively in Denmark [33], and good internal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... among men and women from the study are shown in Table The findings suggested that the highest rates of PTSD prevalence among both men and women are found between the age of 18 and 24 years and the ... years of age Of the included studies, 20 were carried out in Denmark, in Iceland, and in the Faroe Islands Ditlevsen and Elklit Annals of General Psychiatry 2010, 9:32 http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/9/1/32 ... scores, standard deviation (SD), and percentages One-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) with descriptive statistics were performed to compare the independent variables of gender and age, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... every age and in every walk of life, and many of them suffer alone and in silence They feel scared, anxious, and isolated from the rest of the world — and they feel like no one can understand what ... GOVERNMENTAL REGULATIONS, AND THE CONSTANT FLOW OF INFORMATION RELATING TO THE USE OF MEDICINES, EQUIPMENT, AND DEVICES, THE READER IS URGED TO REVIEW AND EVALUATE THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE ... “Relationships 101” and regular columns for EMMY Magazine and Fast Company In addition, he served as the Parenting Coach and Couples Coach at Time Warner’s ParentTime site and iVillage and was the lead...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2014, 23:34

... CL, TP and KN conceived and designed the study CL collected the data CL and TP performed statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors revised the manuscript critically and approved ... relationship between, and occurrence of job satisfaction, burnout and post traumatic stress symptoms has not been explored The aim of this present study is to explore relations between, and occurrence ... of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:31 http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/31 steps to ensure quality practice The committee found this study to...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Psychologist and author of Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions ‘ helpful both to those who suffer from the condition and to those who wish to help but struggle to understand.’ J OAN B ... this and other contexts I was, like my father, blessed with a sense of humour We were sitting one day on my grandfather’s lawn and someone walking past stared at us My grandfather turned to me and ... their systems understanding to behavioural research This seemed to be just the cue for which I had been waiting I wrote to him, was given an interview by Keith Oatley and Professor Sutherland, and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:21

... classical and alternative pathways, and hemolytic activities of its individual components, C2, C3, C4, factor B and factor D, in the blood serum of PTSD affected and healthy subjects C2 and C4 are ... the complement classical and alternative pathways (CH50 and AH50, respectively) and of the complement components C2 (C2H50), C3 (C3H50), C4 (C4H50), factor B (fBH50), and factor D (fDH50) in the ... chemotaxis, and opsonization of apoptotic and necrotic cells, facilitating their recognition, clearance, and lysis Complement exhibits three activation pathways - classical, alternative, and lectin,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... OCD and its appropriate treatment is essential to improve the quality of assistance and to reduce the waste of health care resources through unnecessary medical care Historical background and ... tissue levels in the NAc and right-PFC The DL-PFC enables temporal information processing and holding relevant information online [44] It is believed to mediate working memory and executive functions ... genes and the D2, D3 and D4 receptors [59,60], as well as the catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) and monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) enzymes [61] Glutamate-related genes (GRIK and GRIN2B) and transporters...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... states of depression, anxiety and tension/stress Mobility, Fitness and Strength Assessments of mobility will include tests of standing balance [23] (tandem, semi-tandem and single-leg stance time), ... allocation concealment) using a block randomisation sequence generated using random numbers in Excel and including randomly varying block sizes Participants and intervention staff are unable to ... including amount of sleep hours per night and barriers to sleep will be monitored through the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index [27] and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Addendum for PTSD [28] Both...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... in specific frequency bands was studied viz., very low frequency (VLF) band (0.0-0.04 Hz), low frequency (LF) band (0.5-0.15 Hz), high frequency (HF) band (0.15-0.50 Hz) and the LF/HF ratio The ... disturbed sleep, and in the breath rate The main limitation of the study was that there was no control group Comparisons were made between mainland settlers and people endogenous to the islands, where ... summarizing participant numbers and timing of randomization, assignment, interventions and assessments comparable age range [i.e., average p scores were 4.50 for the present group, and 4.37 for n = 457;...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... (10.4% for women and 5% for men) and to be more prevalent among women and the previously married The trauma most likely to be associated with development of PTSD among men (69%) and women (45.9%) ... psychodynamic therapy, and hypnotherapy), group cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) The authors analysed thirtythree studies and concluded that individual ... PTSD, as well as alleviating the symptoms of depression, and in improving the quality of life measures The current evidence base of randomized clinical trials is unable to demonstrate superior...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... and schizophrenia Investigations of functions and connections of the IC suggest that sensory information including gustatory, olfactory, visual, auditory, and tactile inputs converge on IC, and ... motor information, inputs related to music and eating, in addition to gustatory, olfactory, visual, auditory, and tactile data Recent neuroimaging data, including voxel based morphometry, PET and ... fMRI and VBM findings, Simple Regression Analysis (in SPM 2) was also performed taking into account symptom measures and demographic data (age, gender, and years of education.) in victims with and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... GHQ scoring; columns and are both scores 0, and columns and are both scored This bimodal response scale is a simple method of scoring and eliminates errors due to "end-users" and "middle-users" ... recurrent, and continual thought, impulse, and/ or mental image Compulsion refers to repetitious behavioral and/ or mental activities Obsessions are usually perceived to be excessive and senseless ... situation and both parental economic situation as well as the education level of the father and mother (r: 0.70 and r: 0.61 respectively) Therefore, only students' own economic situation and the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20