research findings suggest that the family context and communication patterns have high correlation with adolescent’s mental health indicators such as anxiety. therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the mediator role of coping strategies in relation between family communication patterns and students social anxiety. 140 students of shiraz guidance schools were studied they completed th...

purpose: the sport anxiety scale-2 (sas-2) is a tool by which we can measure the level of trait competitive anxiety. the original form included 15 questions and three subscales included: somatic, worry, and concentration distraction. the aim of this study was to examine of validity and reliability of persian version of sport anxiety scale-2 in children and teenager athletes. methodology: 358 qu...

We studied the association between the short/long promotor-based length polymorphism of the serotonin transporter gene (5-HTTLPR) and neuroticism, anxiety and depression. Subjects included twins, their siblings and parents from the Netherlands Twin Register (559 parents and 1,245 offspring). Subjects had participated between one and five times in a survey study measuring neuroticism, anxiety an...

Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disabling chronic inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. Psychiatric disorders in MS are highly prevalent and often underdiagnosed poorly treated. The main psychiatric disturbances depressive, bipolar, anxiety, schizophrenic, obsessive-compulsive syndromes. aim our study was to evaluate type cohort patients with correlate results sociodemogr...

background :5httlpr polymorphism (5- hydroxytryptamine transporter linked promoter region polymorphism) is the most widely studied genetic variant in psychiatry. the present study is a modest effort at ascertaining the role of 5ht transporter linked promoter region polymorphism (5httlpr) in anxiety and depressive disorders in kashmir (india).the aim of this study was to examine 5-hydroxy trypta...

Glutamatergic dysfunctions are observed in the pathophysiology of depression. The glutamatergic synapse as well as the AMPA receptor's (AMPAR) activation may represent new potential targets for therapeutic intervention in the context of major depressive disorders. S 47445 is a novel AMPARs positive allosteric modulator (AMPA-PAM) possessing procognitive, neurotrophic properties and enhancing sy...

This paper examines the influence of contextual specificity when describing technology acceptance. Social cognitive theory provides the basis for adding several independent variables (computer anxiety, prior experience, other s use, organizational support, task structure, and system quality) and one intervening variable (computer-efficacy) to the technology acceptance model (TAM). This extended...

OBJECTIVE To replicate previous research on the efficacy of acupuncture in increasing pregnancy rates (PR) in patients undergoing IVF and to determine whether such an increase was due to a placebo effect. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, controlled, single blind trial. SETTING Private, academically affiliated, infertility clinic. PATIENT(S) One hundred fifty patients scheduled to undergo e...

Introduction: This study investigates the effects of cannabinoid agonist WIN55-212-2 on acquisition and consolidation phases of the fear memory extinction and also on anxiety and motor activity. Methods: In this study, we used SPS & S model to induce post-traumatic stress disorder. One week after SPS, to establish a conditioned fear memory, rats received an electric foot shock within shock cha...

The purpose of the present study was to assess which types of experiences are most closely associated with pathological forms of dental anxiety. Data came from a sample of dental patients (n=1462). Pathological dental anxiety was operationalized in two ways: (1) a score of > or =36 on the Short form of the Dental Anxiety Inventory (S-DAI; high dental anxiety, HDA), or (2) fulfilling the screeni...