Police officers are at an increased risk for suicide. Hesitancy by this high risk population to seek help makes it essential to detect suicide ideation on a different level than self-reports. This pilot study was an effort to explore the potential for an additional measure, the suicide Implicit Association Test (IAT), to detect suicidal ideation in police officers. The IAT measures levels of id...

Alcohol identity is the extent to which an individual perceives drinking alcohol to be a defining characteristic of his or her self-identity. Although alcohol identity might play an important role in risky college drinking practices, there is currently no easily administered, implicit measure of this concept. Therefore we developed a computerized implicit measure of alcohol identity (the Alcoho...

PROBLEM Implicit white race preference has been associated with discrimination in the education, criminal justice, and health care systems and could impede the entry of African Americans into the medical profession, where they and other minorities remain underrepresented. Little is known about implicit racial bias in medical school admissions committees. APPROACH To measure implicit racial bi...

BACKGROUND In primary focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) renal prognosis is poor if no remission of proteinuria can be obtained by treatment. In some patients a permeability factor, responsible for damaging the glomerular epithelial cell and detectable by an in vitro test (GVV-test), seems to be present in the serum. METHOD We determined the effects of an immunadsorption treatment ...

The current study shows that people's ability to inhibit implicit associations that run counter to their explicit views varies in a circadian pattern. The presence of this rhythmic variation suggests the involvement of a biological process in regulating automatic associations--specifically, with the current data, associations that form undesirable social biases. In 1998, Greenwald, McGhee, and ...

BACKGROUND Endovascular or intra-arterial treatment (IAT) increases the likelihood of recanalization in patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by a proximal intracranial arterial occlusion. However, a beneficial effect of IAT on functional recovery in patients with acute ischemic stroke remains unproven. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of IAT on functional outcome in patients ...

Intense classical strain improvement has yielded industrial Penicillium chrysogenum strains that produce high titers of penicillin. These strains contain multiple copies of the penicillin biosynthesis cluster encoding the three key enzymes: δ-(l-α-aminoadipyl)-L-cysteinyl-D-valine synthetase (ACVS), isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS), and isopenicillin N acyltransferase (IAT). The phenylacetic aci...

The goal of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of a French version of the short Internet Addiction Test adapted to online sexual activities (s-IAT-sex). The French version of the s-IAT-sex was administered to a sample of 401 men. The participants also completed a questionnaire that screened for sexual addiction (PATHOS). The relationships of s-IAT-sex scores with time spe...

The neural correlates of the perception of faces from different races were investigated. White participants performed a gender identification task in which Asian, Black, and White faces were presented while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Participants also completed an implicit association task for Black (IAT-Black) and Asian (IAT-Asian) faces. ERPs evoked by Black and White face...

The phenomenon of excessive or pathological Internet use has been investigated in the last decades in order to reveal psychological correlates as well as potential treatments. A key element of the respective research and clinical practice is a valid and reliable diagnosis of pathological Internet use. One of the most frequently used questionnaires is Young's Internet Addiction Test (IAT). Howev...