The article’s purpose is to define the cognitive determination of musical thinking and self-concept students musicians, considering style individual, analytical-holistic thinking, individual psychological abilities. study applies diagnostic technique for individuality (T. Dudnikova, O. Volkova), analysis-holism scale (Choi, Koo, Choi), Cattell test (16PF - C), questionnaire developed by authors...

Objective: Management of problematic behaviors (MPB) in the classroom is one important components teaching process and it among issues that teachers worry about education process. Preschool often encounter as cognitive, emotional, behavioral development processes children their classrooms are still incomplete. Therefore, to examine preschool teachers' ability MPB determine related factors. The ...

A 45-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus presented with multiple arthralgia, coldness in fingers and toes, and Raynaud's phenomenon. Electroacupuncture (EA) therapy was performed in two courses (14 treatment sessions) 1 month apart. A needle was inserted in the proximal (or medial) side of the painful joint and another needle was inserted in the distal (or lateral) side of the same...

OBJECTIVE We examined developmental aspects of the emotional awareness of adolescents by evaluating their responses to a self-reported questionnaire based on the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20 (TAS-20). METHODS The items of the TAS-20 were modified to make them more understandable by adolescents, and nine new items related to a limited capacity for imagination were added. The Japanese Linguisti...

INTRODUCTION The primary objective was to identify the most common reasons for intending to cut back on alcohol use, in emergency department (ED) and trauma patient populations. The secondary objective was to determine the association between reason to cut back on alcohol and education level. METHODS We conducted the study at a level one trauma center in California between 2008 and 2012. This...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) and moxibustion therapies on patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (D-IBS). METHODS A total of 60 D-IBS patients were randomly allocated to the EA group (30 cases) and moxibustion group (30 cases). Before and after treatment, the gastrointestinal symptoms and psychological symptoms were scored by Visual Analogue...

Article history: Received 23 May 2013 Received in revised form 20 March 2014 Accepted 22 March 2014 Available online xxxx

BACKGROUND Individuals with sub-syndromal depression (SSD) are at increased risk of incident depressive disorders; however, the ideal therapeutic approach to SSD remains unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of electroacupuncture (EA) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), alone or in combination, on depressive symptoms. METHODS Undergraduate students with SSD were recruited and allo...