ROADS to Desire

Roads to Institutionalization*

Desire and Desire Regulation

A good deal of people’s waking time is, more or less directly, spent thinking about and dealing with desire. There is no question that desires are often benign, functional, and evolutionary adaptive for the individual. However, there are cases where desire stands in conflict with important (selfregulatory) goals or (moral) values. Prime examples include the exsmoker who, upon seeing other peopl...

Desire of Athlete and Non-athlete Students to Drugs Use

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare athlete and non-athlete students’ tendency to drug use. 240 undergraduate students of University of Kurdistan with ages ranging from 19 to 23 years who had the experience of regular exercise (n = 120) and non-athlete ones (n = 120) were selected as the sample. Relapse Prediction Scale (RPS) was used for data collection. To analyze data, de...

The many roads to tremor.

Tremor represents one of the most prominent examples of aberrant synchronisation within the human motor system, and Essential Tremor (ET) is by far the most common tremor disorder. Yet, even within ET there is considerable variation, and patients may have contrasting amounts of postural and intention tremor. Recently, Pedrosa et al. (2013) challenged tremor circuits in a cohort of patients pres...

The Roads to Mitochondrial Dysfunction

1Department of Chemistry, Postgraduate Program of Chemistry, Federal University of Mato Grosso, 78060-900 Cuiabá, MT, Brazil 2Molecular Pharmacology Research Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, Periyar University, Salem, India 3Department of Physiology, University of Split School of Medicine, Soltanska 2, 21000 Split, Croatia 4Center for the Study of Chronic Metabolic Diseases, School of S...