C OLIC IS truly a noisy phenomenon in terms of the crying that the infant does. But it is also a noisy phenomenon to study in terms of the basic phenomenonology of crying that constitutes the defining behavioral feature of the syndrome. As can be appreciated in Figure 3 in the article by Clifford et al in this issue of the ARCHIVES, even at 3 months of age, after most colic has resolved, there ...

CONTEXT Scarcely reported in the literature, crying seems to be an important precipitating factor for both migraine and tension-type headache in daily practice. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of crying as a precipitating factor for migraine and tension-type headache. TYPE OF STUDY Prospective evaluation. PARTICIPANTS 163 workers or students from the Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, w...

Whereas retrospective studies suggest that crying can be beneficial in terms of mood enhancement, results of quasi-experimental laboratory studies consistently demonstrate its negative effects on mood. The present study was specifically designed to evaluate a parsimonious explanation for this paradox by assessing mood after crying in a laboratory, both immediately and at follow up. Mood ratings...

Patients with pathological laughter and crying (PLC) are subject to relatively uncontrollable episodes of laughter, crying or both. The episodes occur either without an apparent triggering stimulus or following a stimulus that would not have led the subject to laugh or cry prior to the onset of the condition. PLC is a disorder of emotional expression rather than a primary disturbance of feeling...

Newborns and infants communicate their needs and physiological states through crying and emotional facial expressions. Little is known about individual differences in responding to infant crying. Several theories suggest that people vary in their environmental sensitivity with some responding generally more and some generally less to environmental stimuli. Such differences in environmental sens...

INTRODUCTION Primary hyperhidrosis (PHH) is a disease that is mainly characterized by increased palmar and plantar sweating that significantly affects the everyday functioning. It is not clear to what extent this surgical intervention has an effect on one's further emotional functioning. AIM To evaluate the impact of endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) on crying tendency in PHH patients. ...

The pattern of crying and fretting behavior during the first two years is described for 46 !Kung San infants from a hunter-gatherer society in northwestern Botswana. Despite markedly different caretaking practices predisposing to quieter infants, crying and fretting were significantly greater during the first three months, and a peak pattern was present. Measurement of crying 'intensity' indica...