Objectives:  Methamphetamine (MA) use disorder is a new health problem among Iranian female methadone patients that need special treatment and rehabilitation services. However, there are few studies describing their baseline characteristics, their reasons for MA use while in treatment and their treatment needs and success. The study aimed to investigate these research gaps. Methods: Participan...

Background: Hypoactive sexual desire disorder is the most common sexual disorder among women, which interferes with their various functions. Activity of brain-behavioral and psychological distress systems are considered among factors affecting sexual function. Objectives: The present study aimed to compare women with hypoactive sexual desire and normal women in terms of brain-behavioral and ...

1Integrated MSc in Optometry & Vision Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, TS, India 2Assistant Professor, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046, TS, India 3IMA (Linguistics), PhD Research Scholar, Center for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Gach...

Makeup acts and stimulates three of our senses: touch (which encompasses all sensations from the body surface), smell (fragrance), and sight (the process of becoming and looking beautiful). The positive stimulation of these senses by makeup can induce sensory as well as psychological pleasure. In order to understand the relationship of women to their makeup, we interviewed different groups of w...

In this paper a computational model for believable adaptable characters is presented, which takes into account several psychological theories: five factors model of personality[1], the pleasure arousal dominance[2] and the social cognitive factors[3] to create a computation model able to process emotionally coded events in input, alter the character’s mood, the memory associate with the set of ...

Music is not only for entertainment and for pleasure, but has been used for a wide range of purposes due to its social and physiological effects. Traditionally musical information has been retrieved and/or classified based on standard reference information, such as the name of the composer and the title of the work etc. These basic pieces information will remain essential, but information retri...

Music is used to regulate mood and arousal in everyday life and to promote physical and psychological health and well-being in clinical settings. However, scientific inquiry into the neurochemical effects of music is still in its infancy. In this review, we evaluate the evidence that music improves health and well-being through the engagement of neurochemical systems for (i) reward, motivation,...

Dana Kay Nelkin Abstract: Psychopaths pose a puzzle. The pleasure they take in the pain of others suggests that they are the paradigms of blameworthiness, while their psychological incapacities provide them with paradigm excuses on plausible accounts of moral responsibility. I begin by assessing two influential responses: one that claims that psychopaths are morally blameworthy in one sense and...