In Japan, a "eugenic" law permitted involuntary sterilization o f people with intellectual or mental disability from 1948 to 1996. More than 16,500 women and men were sterilized against their will. On September 16, 1997, 17 civic groups, representing women and people with disability, and dozens of interested persons demanded from the Minister o f Health and Welfare an apology, compensation, and...

introduction: previous studies have demonstrated that the &beta-adrenergic; receptor antagonist propranolol impairs fear memory reconsolidation in experimental animals. there are experimental parameters such as the age and the strength of memory that can interact with pharmacological manipulations of memory reconsolidation. in this study, we investigated the ability of the age and the strength ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the number of voluntary and involuntary (detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983) admissions for mental disorders between 1996 and 2006 in England. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING England. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Number of voluntary and involuntary admissions for mental disorders in England's health service, number of involuntary admissions to private beds, a...

Involuntary attention to faces is a behavior seen from birth and is a key factor underlying the development of social skills. Maturation of social skills continues through increased regulation of involuntary attention to social stimuli. Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are neurodevelopmental disorders typified by inattention to faces and poor development of social skills. It has been hypothesize...

In China, the imbalanced sex ratio at birth is compounded by problems of surplus males at adult ages in certain regions of the country. Remote and less-developed rural areas are affected by mass outmigration of young people, women especially. In a society where social pressure to marry is very strong, the shortage of young single women is creating a serious male marriage squeeze, and men must a...

MiE is a facial involuntary reaction that reflects the real emotion and thoughts of human being. It very difficult for normal to detect Micro-Expression (MiE), since it fast local face with low intensity. As consequence, challenging task researchers build an automatic system recognition. Previous works recognition have attempted use whole face, yet appears in small region which makes extraction...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Intrusive emotional memories were induced by aversive auditory stimuli and modulated with cognitive tasks performed post-encoding (i.e., during consolidation). METHOD A between-subjects design was used with four conditions; three consolidation-interference tasks (a visuospatial and two verbal interference tasks) and a no-task control condition. Forty-one participants...