BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the functioning of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared to healthy controls on five neuropsychological domains, with regard to the possible effect of differences in IQ.MethodOut-patients and in-patients with BPD (n=35) and healthy comparison subjects (n=35) were tested with an extensive neuropsychological battery, where...

Sir, Anderson et al. (2009) refuted the Kennard Principle, which states that the immature brain is more plastic and less vulnerable to insult than a mature brain (Montour-Proulx et al., 2004); however, there are important errors in Table 5 of their paper. The IQ data for their six age subgroups do not tally with the total group figures in the last column of Table 5. In each of these six subgrou...

This study investigated the effectiveness of using antecedent persuasive stimulation and response-contingent praise, within a small discussion group context, to modify the rate of verbal participation of Ss in an independent, classroom situation. Ss were 96 male college students who were divided into 12 treatment subgroups and 4 control subgroups of 6 Ss each. 3 treatment conditions were employ...

OBJECTIVE To examine which subgroups of DSM-IV bipolar disorder (BD) [BD type I (BD-I) or BD type II (BD-II), and subgroups based on history of psychosis, presenting polarity, and age at onset] differentiate best regarding neurocognitive measures. METHODS A total of 199 patients with BD were characterized by clinical and neurocognitive features. The distribution of subgroups in this sample wa...

PURPOSE This study aimed to investigate fear, temperament, behavioral symptoms and verbal intelligence in a study group of uncooperative child dental patients, partly in comparison with a reference group of ordinary child dental patients. A second aim was to explore a hypothesis of heterogeneity by searching for subgroups within the study group. METHODS Parents of 86 study group children (36 ...

This study presents data for the joint angles of isocomfort (JAI) in sitting and standing males based on perceived comfort ratings for static joint postures maintained for 60 s. The JAI value was defined as a boundary indicating joint deviation (an angle) from neutral posture, within which the perceived comfort for different body joint postures is expected to be the same. An experiment for quan...

This work builds on previous research to develop some methodology that simplifies the identification of the best policy options for poverty alleviation in a given country. The argument we develop is that when a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choos...

background: bleaching the discoloured teeth may affect the tooth/composite interface. the aim of this in vitro experimental study was to evaluate the effect of vital tooth bleaching on microleakage of existent class v composite resin restorations bonded with three dental bonding agents.     methods: class v cavities were prepared on buccal surfaces of 72 intact, extracted human anterior teeth w...