METHOD Starting from the studies of Conrad on early schizophrenia, we quantified the gestaltic alteration that he has described using a visual-motor gestaltic test (Bender test) in acute and chronic schizophrenic patients. We observed that rotations and distortions were significantly higher in chronic patients, and perseverations in acute patients. Global scores and time employed showed signifi...

Stoch, M. B., and Smythe, P. M. (1976). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 51, 327. 15-year developmental study on effects of severe undernutrition during infancy on subsequent physical growth and intellectual functioning. This third 5-year follow-up on the effects of severe undernutrition during infancy on subsequent brain growth and intellectual development confirms the level of gross retardat...

In theory the measurement of net protein utilization (N.P.u.) refers to the particular protein under test. In practice there is a small amount of other nitrogen (including that from the vitamins) in the basal diet so that the actual measurement evaluates a mixture of test protein and this other nitrogen. In the diets that we have been using with rats (Miller & Bender, 1955; Bender, 1956) the te...

Serious problems emerge when evaluating evidence on lead neurotoxicity in children. The extent of these problems and ways to control them were explored in a study of 1291 children from the first class in the schools of Aarhus municipality, Denmark. The lead retention in circumpulpal dentin in shed deciduous teeth was used as an indicator of cumulated lead exposure; it correlated most strongly w...

objectives: loneliness is a common experience of people, regardless of gender, age, socio economic and cultural experience in the course of its life. the aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of gestalt group therapy on the loneliness of alzheimer’s caregivers. methods: in an experimental study with a pre-post test design and control group, women participants were selected from alz...

INTRODUCTION Chronic subjective tinnitus is associated with cognitive disruptions affecting perception, thinking, language, reasoning, problem solving, memory, visual tasks (reading) and attention. OBJECTIVE To evaluate existence of any association between tinnitus parameters and neuropsychological performance to explain cognitive processing. MATERIALS AND METHODS Study design was prospecti...

Objectives: Loneliness is a common experience of people, regardless of gender, age, socio economic and cultural experience in the course of its life. The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of Gestalt group therapy on the loneliness of Alzheimer’s caregivers. Methods: In an experimental study with a pre-post test design and control group, women participants were selected...

Although the anuran pelvis is thought to be adapted for jumping, the function of the iliosacral joint has seen little direct study. Previous work has contrasted the basal "lateral-bender" pelvis from the "rod-like" pelvis of crown taxa hypothesized to function as a sagittal hinge to align the trunk with take-off forces. We compared iliosacral movements and pelvic motor patterns during jumping i...

BACKGROUND Clinical probability assessment is combined with d-dimer testing to exclude pulmonary embolism (PE). PURPOSE To compare the test characteristics of gestalt (a physician's unstructured estimate) and clinical decision rules for evaluating adults with suspected PE and assess the failure rate of gestalt and rules when used in combination with d-dimer testing. DATA SOURCES Articles in...

tests of 9 restricted and 25 nonrestricted children with cardiac 'nondisease' with 3I children of comparable age and racial and socioeconomic backgrounds. On the WISC, the restricted children had the lowest full-scale verbal and performance scores and showed the most variability between their verbal subtest scores. The nonrestricted children had lower full scale and verbal scores and showed mor...