Immobility in Sweden

Conscious Immobility

Tackling immobility in hospitalized seniors.

through a hospital ward has seen room after room of elderly patients quietly dozing in bed, as if every patient was being treated for a cold or hysteria, or recumbence the necessary condition of all therapies. And doesn’t it make sense, after all, that elderly patients should spend their days on their back? Traditional wisdom dictates that bedrest promotes healing and recovery, much in the mann...

Effect of nicotine on immobility time in mice

In the present study, the effects of different doses of nicotine on immobility time in mice were tested. Intraperitioneal administration of low doses of nicotine (0.025 mg/kg) decreased, but higher doses (0.8 and 1 mg/kg) increased immobility time. The anti-immobility response induced by low doses of nicotine was inhibited by high doses of the D2 receptor antagonist sulpiride, the central nicot...

Cholinergic blockade and tonic immobility in chickens

To investigate the effects of cholinergic blockade on duration of tonic immobility (TI) and habituation to handling and the TI testing procedure, two groups of cockerel chicks were tested following injection with scopolamine or saline. One week later half of each group was given a second test for TI following injection with saline or scopolamine. Results indicated that scopolamine significantly...

Traumatic events and tonic immobility.

Tonic immobility is a basic defense strategy which has not been studied in depth in humans. Data suggest that it may be a relatively frequent phenomenon in victims of rape and sexual abuse, but its occurrence has not been systematically explored in other types of trauma. We carried out a retrospective study in a sample of 100 university students to establish whether tonic immobility varies depe...