When reminded of something we would prefer not to think about, we often try to exclude the unwanted memory from awareness. Recent research indicates that people control unwanted memories by stopping memory retrieval, using mechanisms similar to those used to stop reflexive motor responses. Controlling unwanted memories is implemented by the lateral prefrontal cortex, which acts to reduce activi...

Limited access to family planning services, especially in Indonesia, poses a threat the occurrence of discontinuation contraceptive use and unwanted pregnancies. This condition also occurs disabled group. Meanwhile, there are still common misconceptions about persons with disabilities who considered unable have sexual relations, cannot get pregnant, or form family. Therefore, people not need ob...

OBJECTIVE Data are scarce regarding the sociodemographic predictors of antenatal and postpartum depression. This study investigated whether race/ethnicity, age, finances, and partnership status were associated with antenatal and postpartum depressive symptoms. SETTING 1662 participants in Project Viva, a US cohort study. DESIGN Mothers indicated mid-pregnancy and six month postpartum depres...

ACENTURY FROM NOW, social and demographic historians may be pondering the question of why the topic of teenage childbearing suddenly became so prominent in America during the last several decades of the twentieth century. The issue emerged from social invisibility during the 1950s and early 1960s, when rates of childbearing among teens reached historical peaks, and rose to a level of public obs...

Neonaticide is defined as killing of a newborn within the first 24 hours of life. Neonaticide happens globally. The characteristics and motives of Chinese neonaticide are unknown. This study is committed to outline Chinese neonaticide offenders’ characteristics and primary motives. Neonaticide cases in Shanghai Public Security Bureau (SPSB) were reviewed and analyzed. All offenders were domesti...

BACKGROUND Few data exist regarding pregnancy in lesbian and bisexual (LB) women. OBJECTIVES To determine the likelihood of LB women becoming pregnant, naturally or assisted, in comparison with heterosexual women SEARCH STRATEGY: Systematic review of papers published 1 January 2000 to 23 June 2015. SELECTION CRITERIA Studies contained details of pregnancy rates among LB women compared with ...

Abstract Existing studies demonstrate that unplanned births (e.g., unwanted, mistimed) are associated with worse health for mothers in the short-term and—according to some preliminary evidence—in mid- and later-life. Yet as life course reproductive career frameworks highlight, childbearing experiences often unfold over a number of years, considerable amount diversity pregnancy birth even same i...

By S. D. S. GREVAL LIEUTENANT-COLONEL, late I.M.S. Scrolof/ist. to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta The following is a typical case. After a deed of violence and a domestic tragedy the victim and family are much more concerned about the revenge than the relief. Precious hours which if availed of in seeking medical relief can save the life of the victim are spent in...