The authors sum up the more capital questions of the asymmetric warfare and its psychological factors. They give overview about the military-scientific basis of the asymmetric warfare and its threats; interpretation of asymmetry in the activities of national security; Systematic elements of strategic asymmetry; coherence of strategy reacting to asymmetric threats with other strategies and final...

Clinicians as far back as the father of internal medicine, Sir William Osler, have noted characteristic behavioral patterns in patients with heart disease. In 1897, Osler observed that “the typical heart disease patient is a keen and ambitious man . . . whose engine is always at full speed ahead” (1). Almost a century later, cardiologists Friedman and Rosenman picked up on this theme by linking...

An attempt has been made to study the psychological pattern in terms of six criteria in the visually handicapped subjects. A total of 75 subjects were administered Cornell Medical Index health questionnaire. Twenty-five out of these had normal vision, another third had curable ocular disease and the rest were permanently handicapped.

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a relatively common posterior segment disease characterized by serous detachment of the neurosensory retina. Altered function of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and choroidal vascular hyperpermeability suggestive of choroidal vascular compromise have been thought to play important roles in the pathogenesis of CSC [1,2]. CSC typically affects middle...

This subject is of interest as asthma has increased over the last two decades. Despite therapeutic advances, morbidity and mortality are increasing (Global Initiative for Asthma [GINA], 2010), particularly due to the development of western standards of living, where psychological factors have regained notability (Busse et al., 2000). This brings about a worsening in psychological factors and qu...

The problems of mental disorders and psychological aspects in the condition referred to as alopecia areata in the Polish context are not well researched yet. The objective of our analyses is to present the results of the review of literature devoted to the occurrence of mental disorders and the participation of psychological factors in the aetiology of alopecia areata. Preparing the review of t...

More than one hundred years ago, Sir William Osler noted that 'oesophagismus is met with in hysterical patients and hypochondriacs ... the idiopathic form is found in females of a marked neurotic habit'.2 Since then the role of psychological factors in many oesophageal disorders has been well documented. These include the nutcracker oesophagus which causes chest pain and upper oesophageal sphin...

This paper reviews recent psychological studies of patients with the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or 'functional abdominal pain'. Many studies have used unreliable or invalid methods of assessment and some have confused personality with treatable psychiatric illness. Reliable and valid measures have indicated that 40-500/o of patients with recently diagnosed functional abdominal pain have dem...

There is abundant evidence that depression, anxiety, and anger increase the risk for cardiac events in patients with coronary heart disease. Denollet and Brutsaert are to be commended for contributing a generally well-conducted study of psychological predictors of cardiac end points to this rapidly growing literature. They have found that the combination of “negative affectivity” and social inh...

Sir, We have read with interest the article on psychological factors in patients with normal and abnormal angiographic findings by Dave and Dhavale (1999) in Indian Journal of Psychiatry. The authors have brought out that patients with atypical chest pain had lower prevalence of type A behaviour and a unique 16-PF profile. However following points require reconsideration. Similar studies by Kat...