This study investigated demand-withdraw communication among 68 severely distressed couples seeking therapy, 66 moderately distressed couples seeking therapy, and 48 nondistressed couples. Self-report and videotaped discussions replicated previous research, demonstrating that greater demand-withdraw during relationship problem discussions was associated with greater distress and that overall, wi...

The aim of the research was to investigate the potential relationship between internet addiction and depression in adolescents. A cross-sectional observational study was conducted on a sample of 336 high school students in Belgrade, Serbia. Each student was given a questionnaire consisting of Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC), Young Internet Addiction Te...

Background: Each toxic agent results in unique presentations, depending on what neurophysiological changes occur following exposure. Scientific understanding of lead toxicity in the organ systems and at low levels of exposure continues to evolve. However, effects of lead poisoning on the thyroid gland function are controversial. In this descriptive study, changes in thyroid hormones in patients...

BACKGROUND Bladder cancer is a major health problem, especially among men. Opium addiction can be an important risk factor. One important question is whether it can affect the age of onset of bladder cancer .We performed this study to evaluate this question. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-section study, records of patients diagnosed with bladder carcinoma in Shahid Labbafinejad Medical Cent...

Daniel Saal,1,3 Yan Dong,1,3 Antonello Bonci,2 and Robert C. Malenka1,* Nancy Pritzker Laboratory Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto, California 94304 2 Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center Department of Neurology and Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, Californi...

1 Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA 2 Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 3 VA Boston Healthcare System, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA 4 Portland Alcohol Resear...

Padideh Nasseri, Michael A. Nitsche and Hamed Ekhtiari* 1 Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Translational Neuroscience Program, Iranian Institute for Cognitive Sciences Studies (ICSS), Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, ...

*Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California at San Francisco, Emeryville, CA 94608; ‡Integrative Neuroscience Section, National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224; and §Departments of Neurology and Physiology and The Wheeler Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, University of...

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Department of Pharmacology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Psychiatry, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical Service, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center, the Departments of Medicine, Psych...