Social relationships are tightly linked to health and well-being. Recent work suggests that social relationships can even serve vital emotion regulation functions by minimizing threat-related neural activity. But relationship distress remains a significant public health problem in North America and elsewhere. A promising approach to helping couples both resolve relationship distress and nurture...

AIM Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is associated with cardiovascular diseases; however, the relationship between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and GDM remains unclear. The present study evaluates and compares EFT using transthoracic echocardiography in pregnant women with GDM. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included 129 pregnant women in the third trimester: 65 with GD...

BACKGROUND The association between epicardial fat thickness (EFT) and premature coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been elaborately studied. OBJECTIVES In the present study, we sought whether such a relationship between EFT and CAD exists. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty two consecutive subjects, under 50 years of age, who underwent coronary angiography (CAG) with the aspect of CAD, were incl...

OBJECTIVE An increase in epicardial fat tissue (EFT) thickness was found to be associated with metabolic syndrome (MS) and ischemic heart disease. MS is a comorbidity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) resulting from the accompanying systemic inflammation. The aim of our study was to investigate the usefulness of EFT thickness to predict MS in COPD patients. METHODS COPD patients...

Running title: anti-apoptotic and neuroectodermal pathways in Ewing family of tumors Supported by grant 01/0673 fom FIS (Madrid) and PROTHETS (EC Contract number 503036). ABSTRACT Aims An important criteria for EFT is that it originates from a primitive committed cell with neuroectodermal capacity. The degree of neural differentiation within EFT, as measured with morphological features and expr...

The purpose of this special section is to highlight three cutting edge articles relating to the experience of learning Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). The year 2010 marks 25 years since the initial publication regarding a new, emerging model of couples’ therapy, later named EFT (Johnson & Greenberg, 1985, 1988; see Johnson, 2004 for a comprehensive description of EFT). Since that time, there...

Addiction and pathological gambling (PG) have been consistently associated with high impulsivity and a steep devaluation of delayed rewards, a process that is known as temporal discounting (TD). Recent studies indicated that enhanced episodic future thinking (EFT) results in less impulsive TD in healthy controls (HCs). In a separate line of research, it has been suggested that non-linearities i...