Psychological Consequences of Military Operations in Low-Level Radiation Environments

Psychological intervention in the Spanish military deployed on international operations.

BACKGROUND Spain was one of the first countries to recognize the importance of psychological aspects in the planning and development of international military operations, and also to include military psychologists in contingents deployed abroad. METHOD This paper describes the psychological intervention model used by Spanish military psychologists involved in military operations abroad. RES...

Psychological and Physiological Selection of Military Special Operations Forces Personnel

Notwithstanding the risky, unconventional, and demanding nature of Special Operations Forces (SOF) missions, the assessment and selection of SOF candidates should be governed by the same principles that prevail in the selection of candidates in other sophisticated organizations. This chapter applies western industrial psychology guidelines and procedures to SOF by providing a general overview o...

Psychological Aspects of Military Performance in Hot Environments

Low Frequency Noise: A Major Risk Factor in Military Operations

Background. Noise is a major factor in many military environments. Usually the concern is with the higher frequency bands (> 500 Hz) that cause hearing damage or interfere with speech. Protection against noise is thus focused on these higher frequencies, while the bands of lower frequencies (< 500 Hz) are neglected, and non-audible bands, infrasound (< 20Hz) are ignored. In reality, long-term e...

Effect of low level laser radiation with vitamin D in destroying skin cancer Melanoma cells

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