BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Reducing anxiety is very important before operation. Preoperative visit and use of premedication are popular methods to achieve this goal, but the role of anxiolytic premedication remains unclear and postoperative side-effects may result from routine premedication. Citrus aurantium is used as an alternative medicine in some countries to treat anxiety, and recently the ...

BACKGROUND Patients often exhibit preoperative fear and anxiety that may influence the process of induction and recovery from anesthesia. Music is thought to be an alternative to medication for relief of fear and anxiety. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to explore the feasibility of using heart rate (HR) variability (HRV) for evaluating the efficacy of music listening to relie...

conclusions our findings show that premedication with passiflora incarnata reduces anxiety as well as melatonin. however, melatonin causes less cognitive impairment compared to passiflora incarnata. results there were no statistically differences between groups in vas (p > 0.05). however, the mean score of pain was higher in the melatonin group compared to the pssiflora incarnata group when dis...

Psychological stressors reliably trigger systemic inflammatory activity as indexed by levels of proinflammatory cytokines. This experiment demonstrates that one's specific emotional reaction to a stressor may be a significant determinant of whether an inflammatory reaction occurs in response to that stressor. Based on extant correlational evidence and theory, a causal approach was used to deter...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are common and independent outcome predictors in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). However, it is unclear whether CHF causes depression. Thus, we investigated whether mice develop anxiety- and depression-like behavior after induction of ischemic CHF by myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS AND RESULTS In order to assess depression-like behavior, anhedo...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to induce the thought-shape fusion (TSF) distortion experimentally, testing: a) Whether the TSF distortion could be induced by anxiety in general or if it had a specific relationship with thoughts related to the intake of fattening foods; b) Whether the TSF could be induced in non-clinical participants as well as in the eating disorder patients; c) Whether participants wit...

To the Editor:—Congratulations to the authors on a well-performed study in an area of particular interest to us. We are curious about one aspect of the methodology and would also like to discuss the results from a slightly different view point. From a methodological standpoint, the pain assessments were performed by parental report by telephone, including the visual analog score (VAS) pain scal...

Introduction and Objectives. Preanesthetic medication may reduce the risks of adverse psychological and physiological sequela of induction of anesthesia in children. Administration of premedication by sublingual route may provide the best compromise, that is, relatively rapid absorption without causing pain. In this study, we compared sedative and anxiolytic effects of midazolam and buprenorphi...