This article shows the correlations between academic achievement and the different parenting styles. It also focuses on the correlation between parenting styles, achievement motivation and self-efficacy. The three types of parenting styles discussed in the article are authoritative, permissive and authoritarian. Authoritarian parenting is marked by high levels of nurturance, involvement and sen...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical, electrophysiological and imaging findings from Parsonage-Turner syndrome and evaluate the results from conservative treatment. METHODS Eight cases were studied between February 2010 and February 2012, with a minimum follow-up of one year (mean of 14 months). All the patients answered a clinical questionnaire and underwent functional evaluation using the Con...

Secondary pseudoainhum is an autoamputation that develops in individuals aged approximately 20 to 50 years and is caused by diseases such as keratodermas, trauma, or congenital factors. The authors report a novel case of secondary pseudoainhum in a patient with Turner syndrome (45,X) who presented with bandlike constrictions in the toes bilaterally. To the authors' knowledge, secondary pseudoai...

For the first time, CISAB sponsored the Charles H. Turner Program, an NSFfunded event that brings undergraduate researchers to the annual meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. The Turner program, named after the first African American animal behavior researcher, has been a highly successful recruitment tool for encouraging undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to go into animal behavior. I...