This paper describes an exploratory research project undertaken with 293 excombatants who participated as child soldiers in the El Salvador civil war either as members of the Frente Farabundo Martí de Liberación Nacional (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front [FMLN]) or as soldiers in the Salvadorian armed forces (la Fuerza Armada de El Salvador [FAES]). The aim of the research was to asses...

Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law. The law was strictly followed to the West, but as far as the Eastern Empire is concerned t...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the applicability of the Disease Repercussion Profile (DRP) in the assessment of people with recently diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis. Previous research using this instrument has been confined to chronic samples. METHODS Fifty-three patients with recent onset rheumatoid arthritis completed the DRP and other commonly used clinical outcome measures. RESULTS The life a...

Traumatic events in early life are implicated in an increased risk of psychiatric diseases, such as depression and anxiety disorders. Serotonin is thought to play a central role in stress-induced psychiatric diseases. Serotonergic systems, including neural organization and receptor function, could dramatically change with each developmental stage. Here, we reviewed the persistent influence of e...

This article describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. It coruists of ordering a naive S to administer increasingly more w e r e punishment to a victim in the context of a learning experiment. Punishment is .administered by means of a shock generator with 30 graded switches ranging from Slight Shock to Danger: Severe Shock. The victim is a confederate of th...

Mefloquine hydrochloride has been used widely in the past few decades for malaria prophylaxis and treatment. However, in recent years, it has fallen out of favor due to reports of exposure being linked to numerous neuropsychiatric effects, including emotional disturbances. In this study we examined the effects of different doses (5, 25, or 100 mg/kg) of mefloquine relative to vehicle on male C5...

Twenty years ago Firth-Cozens reported that among doctors in their first year of graduating 50% were estimated to have emotional disturbance and 28% fulfilled criteria for depression. Since then, working hours have decreased, and the way that doctors are trained and managed has changed substantially. Despite this, the proportion of doctors experiencing psychological distress has remained consta...

Cases described here discuss interdisciplinary (periodontal and behavioral) approach in the management of rare and difficult to diagnose self-inflicted injuries of gingiva such as gingivitis artefacta major. Self-inflicted injuries to the gingiva are rare and their management by periodontal therapy alone is inadequate. Proper management of this condition requires early detection and effective p...

We examined mediational models of panic-fear, panic disorder (PD), and asthma outcomes among adult asthma patients. PD was assessed by the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule. Twenty-one asthma-PD patients and 27 asthma-only patients completed spirometry and questionnaires. Asthma-PD patients reported greater illness-specific and generalized panic-fear than asthma-only patients, despite no dif...