There is preliminary evidence that enhanced priming for trauma-related cues plays a role in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A prospective study of 119 motor vehicle accident survivors investigated whether priming for trauma-related stimuli predicts PTSD. Participants completed a modified word-stem completion test comprising accident-related, traffic-related, general threat, and neutral wo...

It is shown that significant changes in the blood takes place when driving in a motor vehicle. The risk of death in various occupations due to diseases related to body malfunction is calculated and this demonstrates the high risk of workers in transport. A further test of data, the correlation of deaths from all causes, both male and female, with male and female road accident deaths respectivel...

In our previous studies,1,2,3) it was shown that the mortality from motor vehicle accident is affected by various psychosocial factors such as social mobility, high income, aging population, occupation, type of automobiles and climate . In this study, we aim at exploring neurobehavioral predictors which could distinguish the traffic accident-prone drivers from safe drivers ; eleven factors are ...

In Finland all fatal motor vehicle accidents are studied in-depth on-the-spot by multidisciplinary (police, road and vehicle engineers, physician and behavioural scientist) road accident investigation teams (legislation 2001, work started 1968), which operate in every province. The purpose of the teams is to uncover risk factors that turned an ordinary driving situation into a serious accident ...

Binary data is rare in medical domain but whenever it appears, poses serious problems in term of detrmining clinically interesting rules and patterns. In this paper we develop such lagorithms that incorporating some of the data mining techniques. Various techniques have been devised particularly in satellite navigation systems [3] requiring high powered computing facilities. Similar techniques ...