Objective: To investigate the psychological profile of a sample of new mothers, who requested an elective caesarean section (CS), compared with a group of women who had a CS in emergency. Furthermore, the study examined psychiatric, environmental, medical and obstetrical risk factors related to the mother’s choice of an elective CS, in order to develop specific intervention strategies. Methods:...

UNLABELLED This study examined whether an EEG biofeedback protocol could improve outcome measures for a mixed substance abusing inpatient population. METHOD One hundred twenty-one volunteers undergoing an inpatient substance abuse program were randomly assigned to the EEG biofeedback or control group. EEG biofeedback included training in Beta and SMR to address attentional variables, followed...

New organic stilbazolium family of 4-[2-(3 methoxy-phenyl)-vinyl]-1-methyl-pyridinium+ iodide− (MMPI) was successfully synthesized using the condensation reaction method. The recrystallization process carried out to improve purity material, and MMPI grown into a single crystal by solvent evaporation solubility material taken at different temperatures with mixture Methanol: Acetonitrile (1:1). s...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the personality characteristics in parricide offenders, by using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) test, which is commonly used in clinical medicine. METHODS A total of 73 parricide offenders with schizophrenia who were admitted to National Forensic Hospital in Gongju city between September 2014 and February 2015, and 104 comparison sc...

Elevated scores on some MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory-2) validity scales are common among patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID), which raises questions about the validity of their responses. Such patients show elevated scores on atypical answers (F), F-psychopathology (Fp), atypical answers in the second half of the test (FB), schizophrenia (Sc), and depression (D) scales...

results addiction potential was positively related to personality characteristics. we found that those with the highest addiction potential (47%) exhibited the following 3 traits: char­acteristics of schizophrenia, psychological exhaustion, and depression. conclusions there were no significant differences in the addiction potential among the students with respect to grade, field of study, age, ...

This investigation evaluated the role of preoperative psychological adjustment, degree of postoperative seizure reduction, and other relevant variables (age, education, IQ, age at onset of epilepsy, laterality of resection) in determining emotional/psychosocial outcome following anterior temporal lobectomy. Ninety seven patients with complex partial seizures of temporal lobe origin were adminis...

Matrix metalloproteinase inhibitors (MMPi) possessing a glucose protecting group on the zinc-binding group (ZBG) show a dramatic increase in inhibitory activity upon cleavage by beta-glucosidase.