The majority of studies examining self-reported anticipatory and consummatory pleasure in schizophrenia, as measured on the Temporal Experience of Pleasure Scale (TEPS), have been conducted on chronically ill people with the disorder. In this study, people with a recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum diagnosis (first psychotic episode within one year of study participation) (n=88) and people with...

BACKGROUND The stigmatizing of the mentally ill is quite common and has numerous social and economical consequences for these individuals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The aim of this paper was to examine young peoples' beliefs regarding the mentally disordered. The authors' questionnaire regarding the interviewees' age, gender, social background and their opinions on the mentally ill was conducted a...

Scapegoats have always served to underline the standards of the majority, a new book suggests that society in the 19th and 20th centuries has used the mentally ill as the outcasts necessary to confirm its stability and righteousness.

Four instances of infection in man which are believed, because of the circumstances under which they occurred and in view of the results of neutralization tests, to represent cases of louping ill have been described. Evidence obtained by the neutralization tests is in favor of the idea that the antibodies against louping ill virus demonstrated in certain sera were most likely the result either ...

Germany and the U.S. share a keen interest in exploring the potential of care management programs for the chronically ill. Despite obvious health system differences, in both countries there has been a proliferation of disease management models, initiated by a variety of actors, paid for in different ways, targeting different types of population groups, and encompassing a broad menu of intervent...

Investigators from the Critical Care Continuous EEG Task Force of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society reported a consensus statement on indications for the use of critical care continuous electroencephalographic monitoring (ccEEG) in adults and children.