Epigenetic alterations related to early life stressful events

Presumptive Stressful Life Events Scale (psles) — a New Stressful Life Events Scale for Use in India

Using an open ended question along with Holme's and Rahe's Social Readjustment Rating Schedule on a sample of two hundred adult subjects, a suitable scale of stressful life events experienced by the Indian population was constructed and standardized for two time spaces, that is, last one year and life time. Analysis of various demographic variables for this population revealed no differences on...

Perfectionism and Stressful Life Events as Vulnerabilities to Depression Symptoms in Students

IntroductionThe mood disorders such as depression are the most common mental disorders among individuals. In addition to, girls’ students as a group at high risk are known for developing this disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of perfectionism and stressful life events in predicting disordered depression symptoms among girls’ students. Materials and Methods: This cross-...

Role of Stressful Life Events in Mania

The study investigated the role of stressful life events and family pathology in manic illness-selecting 30 cases of mania from Psychiatric Centre Jaipur and 30 normal controls from paramedical staff of psychiatric hospital. Both manics and normals were matched in terms of age, sex, education, marital status etc. All the subjects were subjected to Paykel's life events questionnaire, and an inte...

Stressful life events and childhood illness.

The use of DNA probes to monitor minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. A. The polymerase chain reaction: a new tool for the detection of minimal residual disease in hae-matological malignancies. Tournay 0, et al. Detection of minimal disease in hematopoietic malignancies of the B lineage by using third-complimentarity-determining region (CDR-III) specific probes. ...

Preterm Birth and Stressful Life Events