BACKGROUND Animal and human studies suggest that stress experienced early in life has detrimental consequences on brain development, including brain regions involved in cognitive function. Cognitive changes are cardinal features of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. Early-life trauma is a major risk factor for these disorders. Only few studies have measured the long-term consequences...

CONTEXT A previous study reported a gene x environment interaction in which a haplotype in the corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1 gene (CRHR1) was associated with protection against adult depressive symptoms in individuals who were maltreated as children (as assessed by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire [CTQ]). OBJECTIVE To replicate the interaction between childhood maltreatment and...

The aim of the present study was to investigate role prior childhood abuse and current psychological symptoms on frequency drug use self-harming behavior among a group male prisoners convicted robbery. sample consists 127 men armed, aggravated, unarmed/forced robbery, who were held in Metris T-type closed penitentiary state correctional institution. History assessed with Childhood Trauma Questi...

The present study aimed to assess the factor structure of the childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein & Fink, 1998), and use it to describe the prevalence of abuse and neglect in Indian adolescents, and its associations with gender, family structure (nuclear vs. joint), and level of parental education. Participants were 702 adolescents from Jammu in the age range of 13-17 years (41.5% fe...

Objective: to examine the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and mental health problems in juveniles who sexually offended (JSOs) compared to juveniles who offended non-sexually (non-JSOs). Methods: a sample of 44 JSOs and 763 non-JSOs incarcerated in two juvenile detention centers in the Netherlands between May 2008 and March 2014 were examined for childhood abuse history (Child...

Industrial radiography has its inimitable role in non-destructive examinations. Industrial radiography devices, consisting of significantly high activity of the radioisotopes, are operated manually by remotely held control unit. Malfunctioning of these devices may cause potential exposure to the operator and nearby public, and thus should be practiced under a systematic risk control. To ensure ...

We describe a reproducible technique for achieving cold ischemia with intraoperative tumor assessment during robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) that recapitulates the open approach: intracorporeal cooling and extraction (ICE). A total of seven patients underwent the ICE modification of RPN by transperitoneal (n=5) and retroperitoneal (n=2) approaches. A Gelpoint access port was used for the came...

This paper presents a polynomial connectionist network called ridge polynomial network (RPN) that can uniformly approximate any continuous function on a compact set in multidimensional input space R (d), with arbitrary degree of accuracy. This network provides a more efficient and regular architecture compared to ordinary higher-order feedforward networks while maintaining their fast learning p...