BACKGROUND The emotional problems of patients presenting only somatic symptoms are frequently not detected by general practitioners (GPs), yet clinical outcomes have often been found to be no different from emotional problems directly presented. AIM To compare clinical outcomes and attributions for improvement of patients with emotional problems presenting only somatic symptoms to GPs, with p...

Between April 17 and 29, 2020, we conducted a nationwide online survey of parents children between the ages 3 years (N = 1560). A majority were reported to be negatively emotionally affected (frightened, disturbed, or upset) by news coverage COVID-19. Every stress symptom asked about (including nervousness, crying, sleep problems) was dramatically more prevalent among frightened than not covera...

trichobezoars are impactions of swallowed hairs in the stomach and occasionally in the intestine. they occur in emotionally disturbed, depressed, or mentally retarded patients who have trichotillomania and trichophagia. trichobezoars are usually diagnosed on ct scan or upper gi endoscopy. they can give rise to complications like gastroduodenal ulceration, haemorrhage, perforation, peritonitis, ...

Interacting with intelligence in an ever-changing environment calls for exceptional performances from artificial beings. One mechanism explored to produce intuitive-like behavior in artificial intelligence applications is emotion. This chapter examines the engineering of a mechanism that synthesizes and processes an artificial agent’s internal emotional states: the Affective Space. Through use ...

The question we address is the following: how do agents that are embedded in large societies — hundreds to millions of agents — focus the enormous potential for interaction with other agents towards the most productive encounters? The relevance of this question needs little argument. From a social studies viewpoint, it is tied to the understanding of a society's structure and how it — implicitl...

Social work involves working with people in distress and difficulties, people who have perhaps been traumatised by abuse or other life experience, people who have encountered major loss, suffering and pain. In addition there can be immense feelings of alienation and disaffection rooted in social inequalities and the discrimination and oppression associated with them. It would therefore be extre...