Does young age really put the heart at risk?

Does priming really put the gloss on performance?

Priming has recently emerged in the literature as offering advantages in the preparation for skilled performance. Accordingly, the current study tested the efficacy of imagery against a priming paradigm as a means of enhancing motor performance: in essence, contrasting a preparation technique primarily under the conscious control of the performer to an unconscious technique promoting automatici...

do maladaptive schemas put young people at risk for addiction?

Do Maladaptive Schemas Put Young People at Risk for Addiction?

The use of psychoactive drugs is a wide spread phenomenon which occurs in virtually all cultures of the world. Most people who consume psychoactive substances may control their consumption well over their whole life span and even draw benefits from it (1). In a minority of the users , however, controlled drug use can make a transition to drug addiction. This is a psychiatric disorder which requ...

Does laparoscopic donor nephrectomy put pediatric recipients at risk?

Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy (LDN) was first described in 1995 (1). The technique was quickly adopted by many transplant programs and by 2000, half of the living donor nephrectomies for adult recipients were being performed laparoscopically (2). Concerned there was more enthusiasm than science behind this trend, we conducted the first prospective randomized trial comparing LDN with open donor...

Does Scopus Really Put Journal Selection Criteria into Practice?

Introduction Scopus has been one of the main abstract and citation databases introduced by Elsevier in 2004 to the scientific area. With the multidisciplinarity and international coverage aspects, it is one of the largest databases of peer-reviewed literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. There have been several literature studies assessi...