This study examined the effects of personality, attachment, and dimensions of family solidarity on the loneliness of oldest old adults (i.e., 85 years and older) and their adult children. Parent-child dyads were formed with data collected from 100 parents and their children. Results from path analyses indicated that oldest old adults' loneliness was reduced by affection both for and from their ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a bacterial infection affecting the deep dermis, the hypodermis and the superficial aponeurosis. It is a severe lethal infection in 30% of cases. Polymicrobial association is frequently found. The factors associated with necrotizing fasciitis are diabetes, chronic alcoholism, intravenous drug use and immunosuppression. We report the clinical case of a 65-year old diabet...

In Ridley Scott's film "Blade Runner", empathy-detection devices are employed to measure affiliative emotions. Despite recent neurocomputational advances, it is unknown whether brain signatures of affiliative emotions, such as tenderness/affection, can be decoded and voluntarily modulated. Here, we employed multivariate voxel pattern analysis and real-time fMRI to address this question. We foun...

This brief paper provides general context in the emerging mobile space of affection games. Affection games require players to flirt, hug, or kiss to meet their goals in the game. To date, the largest subset of those games, are kissing games. The paper provides a topographic analysis of the 10 most widely distributed kissing games in 2013 and 2014, which account for more than 3,000,0000 mobile g...

Despite the importance of affectionate communication for relational development and maintenance, individuals expressing affection incur a number of risks, including possible misinterpretation of the expressions as sexual overtures. These risks appear to be magnified in the male-male relationship, where overt expressions of affection may be all but prohibited by normative expectancies. The prese...

Sjögren's syndrome (SS) is an autoimmune disorder affecting primarily the exocrine glands, leading to keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) and xerostomia, but that can also include extraglandular features(1). Due the anatomical, physiological and pathological similarity between the pancreas and the salivary glands, it has been described that the pancreas it is not exempt from the damage produced by...