BACKGROUND Violence is a very sensitive research topic and interview's setting might influence the participation rate and response accuracy. We aimed to evaluate such effect when assessing the prevalence of different types of violence in a sample of urban elderly by comparing those interviewed at home with those assessed at the research office. METHODS Study subjects were members of a cohort ...

CONTEXT Reduction in adult neurogenesis has been proposed as a mechanism for onset of depression. Semaphorins and their coreceptors, plexins, have been implicated in nervous system development and in adult neurogenesis. A recent genomewide association study of schizophrenia identified a variant of the gene encoding plexin A2 (PLXNA2) to be most consistently associated across study samples. Comm...

Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) has been well documented in individuals diagnosed with a range of psychological disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Moreover, these disorders both confer an increased risk of cardiovascular disease-which may relate to increased sympathetic and decreased parasympathetic tone. Extant resea...

objective(s): incidence of neurocognitive and psychological disorders may be related to serum homocystein (hcy), cobalamin (vitamin b12 ) and folate levels in old people. the aim of this study was to assess the relation between hcy, cobalamin, folate and neurocognitive and/or psychological disorders in the elderly.   materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 280 subjects with ≥ 65 y...

introduction : this study was carried out to estimate toothache prevalence among adult residents in kerman. materials and methods: this cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted among individuals aged over 18 years ( n =1800). the relevant data on the prevalence of toothache and associated factors were collected by interviewing the individuals in their homes and filling out a questi...

We presented a rare case in clinical practice: fifteen (15) years old male adolescent with shared psychotic disorder with his thirty seven (37) years old mother. In this case of "folie d deux" child was the passive psychotic partner and his mother who was the dominant psychotic partner. Both patients shared the same paranoid and imperative delusions. With complete psychiatric anamnesis, clinica...

Results Participants: 656 gaymen, 505 heterosexualmen,430 lesbians and 588 heterosexualwomen.Gaymenweremore likely thanheterosexualmento score above threshold onthe Clinical Interview Schedule, indicating greater levels of psychological distress (RR1.24,95% CI 1.07^1.43), aswere lesbians compared withheterosexualwomen (RR1.30,95% CI1.11^1.52).Gaymen and lesbianswere more likely thanheterosexual...

Description of prediction guide Patients were evaluated on preoperative medication use; medical history including chronic or acute illness, smoking habits, alcohol use, psychological or neurological disease, and history of delirium; laboratory tests; functional and cognitive status using the Specific Activity Scale and the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS); and comorbid conditions...

The purpose of this phenomenologically and hermeneutically oriented interview study is to explore the subjectivity and life-worlds of the poor. It focuses on experiences of inhibition or loss of autonomy among people living in relative poverty in an affluent welfare state1. Different psychological perspectives and theories, especially those related to social psychology, needs and emotions, aid ...