The study using multifactor personality questionnaire (shorter variant of MMPI) covered 619 drivers aged 20 to 59. Professional success was assessed according to occupationally important psychophysiologic parameters (OIPP) and number of committed traffic accidents (TA) in 4 groups of the drivers. Individual psychologic traits appeared to correlate with reliability criteria (OIPP and TA). Approa...

This research investigates if virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) technologies can be used to help people cope with the anxiety associated a surgical procedure in patient health care journey. Perioperative is natural response surgery stress which may happen at any point before or after procedure. Research has shown that high level of perioperative are potential recovery threat for due effects...

Prosthodontics represents a highly developed body of knowledge and skill that spans multiple disciplines. Numerous studies can be cited that address biologic, mechanical, or materials science factors that influence decisions about patient care. On a daily basis as clinicians, teachers, or patients, we experience an interplay of social, economic, and psychologic conditions that similarly influen...

Active rehabilitation of sport injuries is a concept familiar to athletes and those caring for them. Rehabilitation goals aim to optimize recovery efficiency and diminish chances of repeat injury. Rehabilitation programs take many aspects of recovery and wellness into consideration including physical, social, and psychologic components. Ultimately, this is important in the recovery process afte...

BACKGROUND Psychologic stress modifies immune function and cytokine production. OBJECTIVE We examined relationships between caregiver stress on the following markers of early childhood immune response: (1) IgE expression (n=215); (2) mitogen-induced and allergen-specific (Dermatophagoides farinae [Der f 1] and cockroach [Bla g 2]) proliferative response (n=114); and (3) subsequent cytokine ex...

This Commentary provides the reader with various motivations and psychologic factors patients have for refusing as well as for accepting long-term therapy of lymphedema.

A new milestone in the development of knowledge of metabolic processes was reached in 1934 when the late Rudolf Schoenheimer turned to the use of stable isotopic elements as a label in organic compounds. By this technic it became possible to follow the metabolic pathways of biologically important compounds; since although isotopic-containing substances are biochemically indistinguishable from t...